A giant in the music and entertainment industry has died. Quincy Jones was revered as a record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger and performer throughout his seven decades in the business. Jeffrey Brown looks back on Jones' life and career.

It is true: I am not better off than I was four years ago… four years ago I never, ever, imagined people would violently try to change the outcome of an election in my country.

Coming down to the wire Washington State: Vote Yes, Pay Less. #vote #voteyespayless cc VijayInWA

My fellow Americans. Let us acknowledge & celebrate today as we exercise our liberty & elect our president. Whoever you voted for, I ask you to remember what Napoleon said of Champagne: deserved in victory, necessary in defeat. Pop those corks!

Washington State has been vote by mail for a long time, I’ve voted here a fairly long time… and I have to say: I love vote by mail. No lines and I’m able to take my time and read a big packet and decide. Easier to make an informed vote. I love Washington!

Washington State has spoken: we will tax capital gains: something the IRS calls “income”. 2109 has been defeated. Bookmark this, I’ll remind you when that tax threshold is lowered… we’ll all have a good laugh about it.

35 years ago today #BerlinWall

Also 35 years ago today: I joined americanair AAdvantage program and 2,073,756 miles later were still friends!

For 55 years, Sesame Street has welcomed all children to learn and play with our furry friends, friendly monsters, and warm and gentle grown-ups. Everyone has a place on Sesame Street and has since our first episode premiered on November 10th, 1969. Happy #SesameStreetDay

24,000 plus seems like a big number so how about this... At this moment, Judge Larson and his opponent are separated by only .7% of the total votes statewide. That's less than 1%! There are currently 44,788 ballots that have been rejected that could help us win this. Please

Seeing Ubers available in Malaga again this morning is a great relief!

I'm proud and excited to announce #Akka 3. Akka 3 is a platform w/ new runtime, high-level SDK, local DevEx mimicking distributed, OpEx, Serverless and BYOC, Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Multi-Master Replication and much more. Read my full article here: akka.io/blog/announcin…

Join our webinar to learn about the next generation of Akka. Jonas Bonér and Tyler will share what’s new: -SDK to make development simple -Serverless and BYOC environments to automate ops -First app runtime with Multi-Master Replication -More… bit.ly/3YSkqhM

Come see me at QCon San Francisco Software Development Conference where I’ll be around the Akka booth and the PowerUP lounge.

I have watched Sun, Google, and Microsoft try this now… remember Sun’s Ray stocks.apple.com/AtzzI0lt-T2Sdu…

An interesting take on product management stocks.apple.com/AouRzNjjuRDijT…

Watching PBS News and I have to say Judy Woodruff you have long been, and continue to be, an extremely stylish woman! Great segment with Nick Schifrin about President Carter tonight.

Olafur Eliasson is a globally renowned artist who uses elements of the natural world to make us see that world in new ways. to.pbs.org/4j4Y3iC

CHICAGO I AM HOME!!!

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