I consider myself a good listener, but really missed the mark last week. One of the cloud computing talks was being given by Joe Gregorio from Google, who I chatted with beforehand. He mentioned working on the Atom protocol, which I immediately took as an opportunity to ramble off about using it as the API for a previous project.
I looked him up afterward, and found out that he actually wrote the spec! For as many times as I read the thing, you’d think I would’ve noticed the name, or at least picked up what he was telling me before launching into my own story. Of course, being a good listener himself, he indulged me before getting into his talk on Google’s App Engine.
