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Mailbag: 500 Hard Drives, Yeah, sure…

Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 @ 8:03 am in Field Reports | 1 Comment »

From today’s mail, slightly sanitized enough to protect the companies whose names or contact data are being abused: Hello, We want to place an order for 500 units new Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA/600 (WD5000AAKX) 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive (OEM). Do get back to us with your price quote which should include FedEx next [...]

Startupware Made Me Look Like This (FunWebProducts Report)

Posted: Saturday, June 26th, 2010 @ 2:09 pm in Field Reports | No Comments »

OR: Creating Avatars with Toolbars and Search Hooks by Jerry Stern Webmaster, Startupware.com OK, I look like this now. Well, maybe only kinda. This project started out with a web ad. It told me that I could look like a character from the movie ‘Avatar.’ I’ve seen the ads before, clicked through to see what [...]

Snowmageddon 2, Clean in 20 Seconds

Posted: Thursday, February 11th, 2010 @ 4:21 pm in Field Reports | No Comments »

Here in Westminster, Maryland, the world has stopped for cleanup from the Snowmageddon blizzard. Twice. I’m getting faster with practice: OK, I’m ready for Spring now. I’ve notified the resident groundhogs that they’re responsible for all this mess, and had better get things moving. They dig holes in my lawn, they eat my plants, they [...]

FOSE Keynote: Scott McNealy

Posted: Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 @ 9:00 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

Sun Microsystems sent their CEO, and he’s clearly the best CEO speaker I’ve heard at a long series of these events. He speaks, teaches, amuses, and of course, sells pretty much continuously, and keeps to a schedule. Scott McNealy is clearly in touch with the real world. And he has made the transition to open [...]

FOSE Opening Keynote: David Girouard

Posted: Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 @ 9:00 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

Google sent the Vice President in charge of their Google Enterprise division for the first keynote address and slide show of the FOSE conference at the DC Convention Center. According to David Girouard, the future is in the clouds. Well, cloud computing. Yes, this speech was given on April Fool’s Day, also known as the [...]