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Category: Humour

Something funny or a humorous perspective on some topic or thing.

  • Deeper Messages

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    At the conference I received a loot bag of educational material. Included in the bag was a tutorial on PowerPoint. Is this to suggest that the only tool an architect needs is PowerPoint?

  • Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2006-The Vendor Showcase

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    Most conferences these days have a vendor exhibition. This one is no different. Many of the vendors offer give-aways, usually pens, mice, sometimes golf balls, USB hubs etc. This year a popular hook was a draw for an iPod. One vendor was handing out loot bags full of goodies. I grabbed one and retreated to…

  • SAF: Notes

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    SAF: Notes

    Observations during my visit: The often used term by Microsoft employees, cool (or is it kewl?) to describe their new features, has been out paced by mash-up to describe their new style of application composition. Clouds was another term that had frequent usage. I pondered if there were different kinds of clouds? White fluffy clouds…

  • iPod Saves Life!

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    You can read about it here A lost mushroom picker was spotted and rescued after search teams saw the glow of his iPod early Friday morning. Cold, tired and complaining of aching feet, 25-year-old Pini Nou of Vancouver, Wash., was spotted by a member of a Benton County Search and Rescue unit in the deep…

  • The sport of vendor meetings

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    The last two weeks at work, since returning from vacation, have been quite full. My days have been regularly booked back-to-back, and as well, there have been a number of meetings with vendors. Generally these meetings are, for me, about getting product information. The vendor no doubt has their own agenda. It never ceases to…