March, 2008

COMMON Day 1 – Good things are coming?

I woke up early in Charlotte, piled myself into my car and drove from Charlotte to Atlanta to Chattanooga and arrived in Nashville around 2:00 CST. The Opryland Hotel is entirely to huge. I will go into why I don't like the hotel and how they fail as a good hotel for conventions from my first...

COMMON – Driving to Nashville

I am going to be driving to Nashville on Saturday! COMMON starts Sunday @ 9 AM for the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) with a wonderful breakfast put on by the COMMON staff. What a nice thing to do. I am going to tell you this now. You need to pay attention to this blog. Something huge is coming...

The furture of System i according to a few System i pundants and Bob

The article is rather old in news terms, but I wanted to post it a week before all the big news of IBM is coming and just to see how right on they are or are not. ----> LINK PART 1 | PART2...

Elephant Trunk Camera, I thought this was really neat

Ok so this has nothing to do with System i but it's just super cool and the pictures are very neat. ---> LINK

Week before COMMON

It's the week before COMMON and everything has gotten quiet. Next week should be filled with all kinds of new details as to the direction of IBM and the System i. Anyone want to make any predictions?

Sharing – How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

I am a fan of Apple and know they have problems but I just wanted to share this interesting article with all of you and hope you all learn something from Apple's Years of Doing things...

Article – System i Resume Building 101 – Search400.com

Hello, and happy Friday. Just wanted to post a little bit here and let you all know I wrote a little article on Search400.com that summarizes my 20 years of looking for employment. It says System i but really...

Bill Gates has no idea what he is talking about

First of all I am no fan of Microsoft. I have proven that fact over and over again. I do however respect Bill Gates, he is a smart guy with good form who knows his place in life. But . . . Bill Gates has no idea what he is...

System i – Something big is about to happen at COMMON this spring

So if your doing any reading around the community you're starting to get in tuned with some big things are about to happen at IBM and inside the System i world. This COMMON I predict will end up being another landmark event.

"I've been watching and reporting on IBM and the System i world...

Two things from IBM today. UC² and Lotus Symphony

While I don't see anyone covering this, I figured I would so that IBM gets some fair play on the old blogs. IBM has launched a pretty funny little movie about UC² that is about Unified...