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Willie Nelson eat your heart out …

Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil by Neil

Blogs will be a bit thin on the ground for the next couple of weeks (more so than usual that is) as I wander off on a sojourn across Asia. Singapore, India, Thailand … sounds exotic (so the wife thinks), sounds expensive (so the boss thinks) … and sounds like hard work (that’s what I think).

I’m loooking forward to a first hand view of the state of the economies in those regions, what their focus is on storage over the coming year and of course some of the fantastic food across all three countries. A nice sideline to the whole affair is tasting a few ales across the region, culminating with my favourite … the Kingfisher of India.

The trip finishes off with the BMX World Championships in Adelaide, Australia. No, I don’t ride, but the kids are pretty damned good and I’m chief pit crew for M&D Racing. With any luck we’ll have a new blogger joining the ranks soon which will relieve you from having to listen to boring-old-me.

Sounds like an interesting start to the new financial year.

Ciao
Neil

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3 Responses to “Willie Nelson eat your heart out …”

  1. Simon Sharwood Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Hey Neill, if you are passing through Sydney on your way home, drop in and say hi to SearchStorage.com.au!

  2. Neil Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Simon … ouch … :-)

    “walks a fine line between corporate gumpf and useful material” (Quote from SearchStorage.com.au)
    http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/34487-EMC-labelled-desperate-NetApp-turns-poet-HDS-tiers-up-IBM-and-HP-turn-on-the-megaphone

    As for “coming to Australia for some BMX races” … let’s try “coming HOME to Australia for some BMX races” :-) (I’m sure we’ve met over a beer at some corporate junket.)

    I take to heart, but not offence to, the statement about walking a fine line between corporate blah and interesting storage data. While I don’t pretend to be the worlds greatest blog/journo (far from it), I find myself at times writing within my comfort zone … which happens to be Adaptec products.

    Like many of the bloggers I read I blog about the products and technologies I know. However in my defence I’m sure people don’t read this blog to learn about the complexities of BMX racing (even though it’s a damned site more exciting to watch than storage)!

    So I’ll try to be be more interesting (I get that request at home as well), not blurb on along the corporate lines and stay well away from long pushbike rides such as Sydney to the Gong. As a reformed smoker I don’t have the lung capacity to keep up with you yet! :-)

    Ciao
    Neil

  3. Simon Sharwood Says:
    August 6th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Neil, well …. at least we were not saying you are alone in that category this week! And FWIW, it’s very easy to keep up with me on any bike ride!

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