Rod has a good link to some stuff on corporate B/S speak.

This is just the kind of synergistic, customer-centric, upsell-driven, out-of-the-box, customizable, strategically tactical, best-of-breed thought leadership that will help our clients track to true north. Let's fly this up the flagpole and see where the pushback is.

IMHO... Microsofties are some of the worst at this.... and... 'pushback' is my fave Microsoftism- it's basically a euphemism for “let's do/suggest this regardless and see how much it &*%$#s people off'....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamahadeen

 Pajamahadeen is a word play on Mujahideen. It was coined during the Killian documents controversy during the U.S. presidential election campaign of 2004, in which webloggers were derided by Jonathan Klein, a former CBS News executive vice-president for vigorously challenging the accuracy of a 60 Minutes story by CBS anchor Dan Rather. Klein is reported as saying, "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances (at CBS), and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." Webloggers who were pursuing the story such as Little Green Footballs [1] (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526)[2] (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12615), Power Line (blog) [3] (http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2004_09.php#007770), and Jim Geraghty at National Review Online [4] (http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200409221122.asp)[5] (http://www.nationalreview.com/tks/052840.html) took this insult and turned it into a variety of humorous self-deprecating descriptions of their form of online activism. As Andrew Sullivan noted in response to Klein's remarks: "Actually, I'm in sweatpants and a tanktop. But of course, it doesn't matter a jot what a fact-checker is wearing as long as his facts are correct. CBS's apparently aren't." [6]

Hat Tip to Gavin

Everytime I have called Air New Zealand over the past month I have spent upwards of 5 minutes on hold......

It seems that 'exceptional' caller demands is a 24/7 thing in the travel industry.....

It was Skips last day today.... and while other firms have such anachronistic concepts as 'Casual Fridays'.... here @ Kognition we went one better and had a 'Wifebeater* Wednesday' on Friday..... it was downright pornographic!

From left: Seth, Jason, Nick, Skip, Moi

*Wifebeater is New Zealand slang for the singlet top....

Sean has confirmed the details for Tech Ed here. It's at Sky City again..... which to be honest is not my fave venue- I like the maze like nature of The Edge more..... But it is defn. going to ROCK the SOCKs of the NZ tech comunity.

Look forward to seein y'all there... Keep an eye out for me... just look for the Red Shoes.

One of my friends from China, Eddie Liu (MVP Lead for China), MSN'd me a good little itinerary for Shanghai in one day.

Thought I'd post it here so I can find it easily later on.

Good post on the BCL Blog here on writing managed services in no time flat...

Blogged here for easy access later.

Bill commented on my Blog that he likes Sigs, Glocks and H&Ks and the likes..... So I don't think it's too early to start organising the second Geeks with Guns event.

We did it last year and it was a real blast. The plan is to get a good group of MVPs together just before or after the Summit and go and rent out a gunshop shooting range for a blast up.

For those MVPs from less liberal less redneck countries this will be your chance to have a turn with all the fave handguns you see in the movies in a safe environment. It is a cheap way to have a great afternoon.

If you are interested email me: chris@kognition.co.nz and let me know.

But does ACT really, I mean REALLY, need a biggoted loud mouth like John Banks?

I mean what has happened to the PROPER classical liberal roots of the party- free market economics AND free lives......

”Ray Ozzie is now Microsoft's chief technology officer, reporting directly to Bill Gates. Ozzie and his 200-member Groove Networks team are officially part of Microsoft, thanks to Microsoft's acquisition of the company, announced on Thursday.”

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1774732,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

Please fix your website! Finding the Visa application form is like pulling teeth....

Looks like Contact Energy are going to front up and pay for an artificial Slalom and whitewater course on the Hawea.

Details @ http://www.rivers.org.nz/

$850k doesn't seem like enough to me.... but we'll see...

If you want to import a drytop there is a duty free concession Tariff Item 6201.93.01 Ref#999063B see this document for details.

Hopefullly this will be Google useful for someone later on.

P.S. Hopefully this entry will also prevent you from having to go through the 'eye opening' experience of searching for WATERSPORTS jackets with LATEX RUBBER seals on Google..... My Word it is interesting what some people get up to!

Really quick tip today....

Darryl posted how he likes using a cradle when debugging. I've always been a fan of activesyncing over Ethernet or WiFi when debugging on the device. It's always been much quicker- the speed gap is closing now but it's still much more performant.

Guncontrol.org.nz has a good takedown of a recent NZPA guncontrol article.

Rory has a great wee story about his intramuscular ibuprofen experiences.