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I just attended an online presentation given by a large software firm outlining the details of their next release.
48 slides. 1 hour.
My brain walked away after slide 2. Most of the room was laughing and telling jokes by slide 5.
Was it effective? Did it communicate the message? Did it make me more confused about their offerings? Was I motivated to buy?
They need Cliff and the BullFighters. On retainer. Full-time.

…I join Dave Winer in putting my hand up for a review copy of iCon. [here]

The book On Bullshit that is. Solid recommendation here.
Maybe I will sit down and read some books soon!

I like these…[here]
What have you asked your CRM or CRM vendor to do for you lately? Has it failed miserably?

Some software called “Netscape” has a critical flaw. Never heard of it…

The A380 got off the ground. [here and here and here]
If you have ever been underneath a 747 on landing, as I have been many times (San Mateo, CA is under the flight path of SFO), and wondered how the hell these things stay in the air…imagine seeing an A380 for the first time.
I’m with tipper…Samantha keeps saying “820 people…trying to get out in a hurry…”.
Tim Bray agrees with me on this one….
But Tony Goodson still demonstrates unabated enthusiasm for the technology behind it…but he’s a brit! 😉

I built a whole new Web server to host my sites last night. The database is still on the old Web server, but new server has more RAM, larger drive, and is running Linux 2.6, not 2.4.
Let me know if you encounter any issues with this on any of the sites.

Juniper just went nuts and made two really key purchases: Peribit Networks and Redline Networks. [here]
Redline is one of those really cool companies that helps companies balance their load, terminate their SSL traffic and intelligently compress content, all in a single appliance. We have a couple of these at work and the Operations team has been very impressed with them.
We also use a lot of Netscreen technology, which Juniper owns.
Looks like we are becoming a Juniper shop…who woulda thunk that 5 years ago?

Satellite Radio on an iPod? SIGN ME UP!

Watch this if you are Canadian…or curious about how we do things up north.
Via canadiancomment and Neale News