Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died yesterday at 81. His invention forever revolutionized the world of electronics, and gave birth to the industry I now work in as a product engineer — at Texas Instruments, where the IC was born. I once had the opportunity to do some work at the Kilby Center, a world class semiconductor research and development center at TI’s main campus in Dallas. Here’s a tribute to one of America’s greatest inventors.
Wow, it’s summer again. Time flies so quickly. For those who have been wondering where in the world I am, I’m still right here in Houston. Been busy with a lot of things - work, family, Portico, but at the same time I’ve been able to get myself fairly de-stressed and hopefully more rested.
I haven’t been able to keep up with the Enlightenment project for a while, but hopefully in the next couple of months I should be able to get back up to speed. There is a lot of CVS activity right now and the window manager is starting to come along very nicely. I am still working on the Entrance config system overhaul, and I hope to start committing the changes to CVS in the next two weeks. Once this is complete then the door will be open for a lot of pending feature requests, like Xinerama support, language support and more. I also plan to do a beta release soon (for distro packagers) so we can expand the user base, get more bug reports/feature requests etc.
So that’s it for now…back to digging into code and trying to figure out just what the heck I’m doing. 
