[dundee] Clouds, I hate them, they are my constant foe

[Robert Ladyman]

Some of the Winter Blondes will remember this - the words are rather 
appropriate, ironically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYaRlH82K2M




> Well partly because of what James said, there's a certain Web
> 2.0/Ajax-like marketing vibe about it for something that's relatively
> simple, but give it a fancy name and suddenly everyone is talking
> about it. Also some people seem to treat them like a panacea, there is
> a 'lets stick it in the cloud, that will fix all our problems and
> lower our budget' mentality. Also a useless guy I worked with 6 years
> ago who use to blame almost all problems on the cloud, he was talking
> about something different but I'm kind of reminded of him every time I
> hear the term.
> 
> Kris
> 
> On 21 July 2010 10:50, Christopher Wyllie <cgwyllie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why?
> >
> > On 21 July 2010 10:48, Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Disclaimer: This is not a weather rant.
> >>
> >> I'm fed up every second link seems to be about them; Seriously, stop
> >> talking about, fawning at or practically masturbating over
> >> computer/networking clouds. It's really annoying. It's kind of
> >> reminiscent of how the dot-com bubble came about, I just hope they
> >> crash and burn in the same way.
> >>
> >> Kris
> >>
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