I love it when people from one vendor, for example, the competitive intelligence folks or product management, leave trails how they are trying to knock, bash, and discredit their competition. Of course, many times, there is hearsay like “I was told that vendor XYZ’s product doesn’t scale, doesn’t perform, has quality issues, is untested, …” [...]

Maybe I should stop evangelizing. For years I’ve been telling clients to take data quality seriously and manage information like a corporate asset. Since Monday I’m thinking “maybe it’s a good thing that companies have such a mess in their databases.” Think about it, wouldn’t it be nice if you couldn’t get a speeding ticket, [...]

Here is a song I’ll be working on. It will be my first attempt of generating some music based on fully computer-generated lyrics. I know what you think. Many of the Top 40 hits are probably just that. Want to create your own lyrics that sound like Alanis Morrissette? The Brunching Shuttlecocks gladly generate them [...]

Just found a fabulous self-check of blogs by Lore Sjöberg, who wrote the ultimate blog post over at Wired.
“Blog” itself is short for “weblog,” which is short for “we blog because we weren’t very popular in high school and we’re trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people.”
Creating your own [...]

There is nothing worse than a non-message. Check this out: A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. A program? What the hell… could the message get any less specific? The window title shows Outlook itself. Does that mean Outlook is the program and it’s asking me whether it can [...]

I’m always amused when I connect to a website of an established company or other organization and instead of seeing a well designed, intuitive, nicely rendered HTML page, I am looking at an error message of some software that apparently has failed. From my memory, the leader in this space (granted, nothing to be proud [...]

I always enjoy finding some clever tools or technology that inspires me. Liveplasma is the latest one and it is particularly useful for mashups of all kinds. The examples given are mapping an initial search of a piece of music, an artist, a movie with similar or related topics. Here is an example of a [...]

So the Armadgeddon folks apparently like my photographs. At least it’s a start, but I don’t think they really armadgettit. Because I’m not bitter. And so the valued AR people can see more than the virtual itinerary images, I’ll start showcasing a few samples here every once in a while.
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There I am this morning, sitting in the kitchen with my coffee and my laptop, checking on the news after an (almost) all-nighter, and the Klassikradio station broadcasts a little radio ad that makes me almost spill my coffee. Now, I’d agree that the target audience for classical music (or what they consider “classical” as [...]

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I’ve just been on ComputerwocheTV and talked to its Editor-in-Chief, Christoph Witte, about what’s going on in the Business Intelligence market. So if you’re interested in some quick market trend snapshot, here’s what happened in the last 24 months, condensed into 5 minutes. Talk about efficiency…
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