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Cisco’s Official iPosition
The explanation of the lawsuit, along with some other interesting facts has been posted in the Cisco Newsroom.
Does this constitute C-blocking?
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Well that didn’t take very long…
On the heels of Apple’s iPhone debut, Cisco releases it’s new “iSueYourAss”.
Apparently that little legal agreement that granted Apple the right to use the name “iPhone” (see post below) never got signed by the iLawyer. Oopsie!
And in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve worked with our attorney mentioned in this article. He’s definitely a straight shooter and a very very good lawyer. Good luck, Apple. Feel free to send one of those new little gizmos over this way and maybe I can persuade the bigwigs to call off the dogs. Maybe.
The Danish, The Darkness, and The Dork
I realized only yesterday that my last two blog posts were never published. So instead of posting them, I’ll condense them into this one and get all caught up.
July 18-23: Spent the week in San Jose. If you want to know what happened on the trip, just read any one of my other San Jose trip reports. Same stuff. EXCEPT for the fact that I took the red-eye back on Friday night, so that I could catch Max’s wedding on the 23rd. It was a garden style wedding down in Rhode Island, right on the water. I felt like I fell out of an Ambercrombie ad. It was like being at the Kennedy compound, without all the bleeding hearts.
August 1-5: Copenhagen, Denmark. This was my first trip to Denmark, and unfortunately, due to business, I didn’t have a lot of time to sight-see. However, I never felt more unattractive then when I was walking among the Danish. These folks (men and women) are possibly the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Add to that the fact that they all wear Puma gear. Mrs Nerd was pleased to hear it.
It only took me the full week to realize that “Ny-” is actually pronouced “Noo-” and not “Nee-” (insert Holy Grail joke here). Lots of Danes laughed at me for that one.
I stayed on Nyhaven (NOO-howen) which is smack dab in the touristy center, but it was still beautiful. I found myself sitting at the outdoor cafes for hours drinking Tuborg beer and watching folks. Ah, summer in Europe…it is ze best!
Time to pull out the Rosetta Stone language software and get my Danish on.
(news flash: No, Cisco is not buying Nokia, so stop asking)
Yesterday I realized that it’s good to have an ark ready in the backyard, you know, just in case. We got 3 inches of rain in about 4 hours, lost our power for 12 hours, and thought the massive tree above our house was going to get hit by lightning and crush our living room. A home 4 streets over got hit. Not to get off the subject here, but do you think that only dumb people live in houses that get struck by some act of God, or do you think there is a band of folks that just appear at these catastrophes so they can be interviewd by the news? Why can’t people with decent oratorical skills ever be interviewed by the local news? It’s always “Yeah, it was like wickid dahk, and then we saw like a big blue light, and my Ma was like OH MY GAWD, and then we were like Somethin Musta Happened, so yeah, it was wickid scary.”
Wait, what?
Lastly, I succumbed to the hype and installed Mac OSX on an IBM Thinkpad, you know, just to see. I wrote all about it here, so I’ll save you some time….
Tags: cisco, landscaping, travel
So this is an office?
In an effort to maintain human contact, I decided to venture into the old corporate office today. I could say that the main purpose was to visit old friends and be a good corporate citizen, but mainly, it was to convince myself that I could still FIND the damn place.
After working full time at home for going on 4 years now, my visits to the office are becoming less frequent. Hell, I spend more time in my guest cube in San Jose than I do in my local campus…and that’s 3000 miles away.
6:45 am: Hit snooze for the first time. I normally don’t get out of bed till at LEAST 8:30.
6:54 am: Check with Mrs Nerd to make sure (one more time) that she doesn’t want to get up first.
6:55 am: Curse for the first time today. Quite creatively I might add. Head to the shower.
7:08 am: Showered, dressed, and damn near ready to leave. Yup. Guys are quicker at this stuff than women. Go ahead, debate me. You’ll lose.
7:15 am: Force Mrs Nerd to get out of bed and not be late for her job.
7:18-7:40 am: Walk around the house in a daze, trying to remember what I actually need to bring to the office to be “productive”
7:59 am: Kiss Mrs Nerd goodbye Ricky Ricardo style and hop in the car. I immediately start driving in the wrong direction, mainly because I forget how to get to work (just as I suspected)
8:00-8:40 am: Drive exactly 11 miles of the 54 mile journey. Sit in traffic and remember why I don’t do this every morning. I come up with fantasy names and occupations for the other drivers. There are a lot of fucked up people in the world, lemme tell ya.
9:45 am: Pull into the office parking lot. Yes, you read correctly…1 hour and 45 minutes to get to the office and sit in an uncomfortable chair at a desk designed for midgets.
10:00 am: Realize that the whole trip was pretty much worthless when I see that most of the folks that I cam to visit are no longer with “the company”. So much for a reunion. Lunch anyone?
3:17 pm. Time to hit the road before traffic settles in. Maybe I’ll make it home before 7, gods willing.
And the argument for going into an office everyday is what exactly? Cisco is DEFINITELY getting their money’s worth out of this kid. Back home I go. I’ll check back on this place in the fall.
Maybe.
Tags: cisco