[Gllug] Surprised...

[Sean Burlington]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:40:49PM +0000, gllug wrote:
> 
>>will wrote:
>>
>>>To use his words, 'Twaddle!'.  That and dodgy costings for TCO.
>>>
>>>What a twat.
>>
>>I think this is overly harsh. When confronted with someone who honestly 
>>thinks he knows what he is talking about I usually just assume they are 
>>misinformed or a little bit thick. Twat is too strong. He's just a 
>>little thick when it comes to IT or at least his writings suggests so.
>>
>>His writings also suggest he reads a lot of the corporate glossies which 
>>we all know are strategic tools to be taken with a pinch of salt.
> 
> 
> Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but this bloke gets paid to write about
> computers in a national newspaper ...  Come on!
> 

its not just IT that get reported badly - have you ever noticed how news 
articles about things you know about are highly innacurate ?

This seems to be a fairly general phenomena - you only pay attention to 
news on subjects you don't know much about ...

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Sean

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