Back in the day, I was a PC guy with some UNIX history. I made fun of Mac users with their non-multi-threaded OS and silly smiley faces. Then came OSX. Having seen the NEXT boxes that they were vaguely descended…
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Do you mind if we piss you off before you help us out?
a.k.a. How disconnected are you from your customers? I relocated from AZ to NC last year with my family. I grew up in the UK and my wife grew up in Puerto Rico . So inevitably, we travel quite a…
It ain’t natural…
In a previous post I had highlighted the shortcomings of a mystery institution I referred to as the ReallyBigBank of America. In a nutshell, I switched to Wachovia because they were prepared to bend over backwards to help me out,…
How many Black Holes have you helped create today?
We see a pattern in Data Organization, and it’s one we hope to change. It goes something like this… New tools for organizing data come on line. People start using the tool. For the first few months or so, everything…
Where’d my Secretary go?
Like any entrepreneur, I am often far too close to what I’m working on. The most common result is the glazed/confused expression on people’s faces when I explain what I’m up to. Fortunately (IMO) , my co-founders seem to share…