At DLT we have a chief scheduler for all professional service and consulting projects. We call him “The Cleaner” after The Harvey Keitel character, “The Wolf” in the movie Pulp Fiction.

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How come nobody is cursing or throwing things?

I participated in a throw down between Microsoft, UNIX (variety Solaris) and open source proponents (me) for a customer in DC last month. It was a very young crowd except for yours truly. Young and disturbingly nice.

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A customer asked me to send our very best consultant to his site to troubleshoot a software problem.

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When I was finshed reading Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen I was left with a single thought…he hate me.

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Great news for us open sorcerers…OpenOffice is OK now!

I used this world beater when it was StarOffice. Somebody in Germany in the mid-1980s thought MS Office needed some open source competition. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000. I used it for the first time in July of 2000. It was awful.

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