For Occasional Use Only

There you have it folks – being the newphew of the first cousin of a board member is recession proof – particularly if you can figure out how to print reports from PowerBuilder

The App Committee

I can’t imagine how those 175 million users get by without supervisor notifications and custom team logos

The Product Cycle

Apple Product cycles, you have to love them.

William Shatner image by Jerry Avenaim, used under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 per license listing at wikipedia.org

The Brave New Distribution Channel

You mushy brained fools, hulu is for computers, not for your televisions.

The Proposal

Tell me what that movie is about again? Helping the bombardier with a website proposal?

The Final Frontier

Africa is a continent, not a country – I never knew. Next they’ll be telling us the earth revolves around the sun!

The Wiki

thanks to a tweet from Mark Pilgrim and several years of running multiple wikis in multiple locales for the inspiration for this post

The Name Game

It’s For The Children

The Expert-N-Speak Says

“The sun revolves around the earth” – A whole bunch of medieval theologians, scientists, and 18% of Americans in 2005

“…The automobile is only a novelty…” – President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Horace Rackham (Henry Ford’s lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” – H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Co. 1977