[plug] New Years' Resolutions

[Leon Brooks]

Bob Ogden wrote:
> Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net> said:
> > Bob Ogden wrote:
> > > > IBM would be a
> > > > nice venue, but how do we interest them? Sure, they're planning on
> > > > supporting Linux directly, but will they count *UG's as fellow
> > > > travellers or (brainless move) competitors - or as undignified
> > > > embarrassments, to be generally avoided?

> > > Having dealt with IBM when there was an OS/2 UG in Perth I'd say
> > > "undignified embarrassments, to be generally avoided" and that was with a
> > > high proportion of suits from big corp's in the group :(.

> > > IBM seem to have a severe lack of clue when it comes to relating to people
> > > with less than gigabuck$ to splash around on IT. --

> > "Get a haircut, and get a real job..." (-:

> Trouble is that, as I said, a lot of the members _had_ a haircut and _had_
> real jobs :).

But "get a haircut, and get a real job, and get an enormous income, and
get a sharp dark blue pinstriped suit, and get a big name behind you"
leaves one kind of breathless...

-- 
Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster,
running away is best. -- Chinese Proverb