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I just had the most wonderful day with Jonathan, my 6 and 1/2 year old son. As I said yesterday, he came in with me to work today. He loved the train trip in. The woman at work just were bowled over. One of our Harvard interns, Raina, stole him to hang out with her for the morning. At lunch, Jonathan had the two largest pieces of pizza he had ever seen and then I took him to the Old State House which is less than 2 blocks away. It was amazing. I don't think I have ever been there. To think we looked out the same window that overlooked the Boston Massacre in 1770 that led to the Revolutionary War is just mind-blowing. In the afternoon, Jonathan just laid out all his drawing stuff on the floor of my office and I didn't hear a peep out of him for hours as I worked on my first “John Review“ tomorrow (you've heard of BillG reviews at MSFT). He just amazes me (and others who witnessed his behavior). I just feel so blessed to have such great and smart kids. On the way home on the train, Jonathan wrote his first distributed app on the edge PDA to track his friend list using Adesso. Yes, you heard right. Since we have a zero-code scenario, he was able to do it with my help and then sync the edge to the center at home. If a six year old can do it, you can! On the way home from the train station, we had a conversation of how software works, how HOL's get turned into 1 and 0's. The kid just amazes me with how smart he is at 6 and 1/2.
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