Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
   
Wednesday, Jan 07 2009, 06:49 pm
Jun 18, 2002
Loudcloud bites the dust.

Loudcloud bites the dust. That's one of a few dozen companies that spun out of former Netscapers. OK, they didn't technically bite the dust. They just sold off their core assets and gave up the name. Forgot the new one already. That's not a positive thing either. Now they want to be a software company instead of a managed IT center. Why not...

Publisher number three arrived. Oops. I don't have the storage shelves done yet. Open any drawer or cupboard in the place and they're filled with books. A customer today wanted volume five of a popular piano series. I've got a dozen of 'em. But I had to ask him to come back later because it would take more than fifteen minutes to find it. It did. Finished the storage shelves but that just got most of the new books off the floor. Then comes the hardest part - organizing them all.

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