March 10, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Hey There Now

TAGS: Introduction

Welcome to ITXtreme, a mostly irreverent, hopefully enjoyable romp through a variety of technology topics that tickle my fancy (or more like, raise my ire).

Over the past 20 years, I've helped start a few businesses (some incredibly successful, some smoking holes in the ground), have seen the development and deployment of technology from both a business, as well as manufacturer point of view (in the belly of the beast, if you will), and have a ton of scars to show for it.

I've seen the occasional flashes of genius, lots of hard work and good intentioned people and projects, and (more interestingly) the rank idiocy of technologies, technology based businesses, businesses, management -- you name it. The funny thing is -- things seem to repeat in patterns, and most people simply forget (or conveniently forget) when the pattern repeats itself. Things like:

What are all of these newly funded Web 2.0 businesses going to do for revenue?

And

Does anyone remember Larry Ellison's net device? Did it replace the desktop?

And

Why does everybody hate their IT departments?

and similar rants.

Let the games begin.

Posted by Paul T. Ryan on March 10, 2006 03:50 PM