Oct 12

krempasky

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Cheers, Brian (Connolly)

Godspeed and good luck in your future endeavors.

Kudos, Robert. He deserves the heap of scorn. As for me, a few nasty cc’d emails to colleagues and execs were met with laughter and he finally skulked away.

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  1. Mike Driehorst

    October 12th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Unf_ _ king-believeble (reference to the J Robertsone piece). OOPS. There I go, resorting to AC/BC-like language. My apologies, Mike.

    But, it’s not surprising.
    – Mike

  2. Amanda Chapel

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Indeed, nice catch with Robertson. But you miss the best part. Note the words of one of his company’s customers. Might be a good communications lesson for you at Edelman. You folks apparently miss that point regularly.

    Pollution
    [Mike Thompson] October 11, 2007 23:37:25 EDT

    James, I’m sure you’re very passionate about DRM, PR, etc, but why on earth do we have to put up with this stuff getting through to the main Smalltalk aggregator?

    I mean, your rants are no doubt very interesting to you and perhaps some others, and good luck to you, but I can assure you they are EXCRUCIATING boring and nutty to people like me who are simply interested in staying abreast of Smalltalk and it drives me crazy that I have to wade through all this frothing-at-the mouth bollocks.

    Spare us please. Get two blogs: one for smalltalk and one for the rest. Or something. If you care about Smalltalk.

    Given your are endlessly on about PR, it is the ultimate irony that each and every one of your bad PR rants is polluting the Smalltalk aggregators. When I came to Smalltalk about two years ago I thought “what on earth is all this rubbish about”, how disorganised must the Smalltalk community be to allow this? By way of contrast, the python aggregator is solely about python – virtually no pollution whatsoever. You make Smalltalk look bad. Or , at least, that’s my experience.

    And also please also be aware that there’s a secondary effect in all this. You say you are to be a Smalltalk evangelist and a product manager and yet you appear to be conducting sandpit-esq hissy fit exchanges over pointless topics with strange people AND THEN BOASTING ABOUT IT. For god’s sake. This is unbelieveable. I’m one of your customers and I’m completely horrified at this grossly unprofessional behaviour. Given the complete stuff-up with Widgetry, and the complete absence of progress on any number of important fronts, don’t you think you might want to be concentrating on something that might redeem Cincom? Don’t you think you might want to be carefully explaining what happens next? Don’t you think you might, at least, want to be evangelising Smalltalk in a positive, professional way?

  3. krempasky

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Wow, for retired/resigned you sure talk a lot.

    Like the series of emails you sent with you “inside information” about my exit. Heh.

  4. Amanda Chapel

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    Other that gay little snips, you don’t add very much Mike.

  5. Amanda Chapel

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    Other “than.” Pardon.

  6. krempasky

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    So you’re a bigot now?

  7. Amanda Chapel

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    No. I’m saying your comments are effeminate and affected. Other that the swish, you seldom make a concise point.

  8. krempasky

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Ok, here’s concise: you’re a fraud, coward – and a scared little bully.

  9. Amanda Chapel

    October 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    Indeed. Exactly the exorcise that was Strumpette.

    Note how it mirrors you: an empty PR guy, full of himself, totally devoid of brain and/or backbone.

  10. James Robertson

    October 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    I’ve considered splitting the blog, but the non-Smalltalk oriented posts are easy enough to skip. Amongst other things, I provide per-category RSS feeds.

    Anyway – I love the way “Amanda” calls other people cowards, and then throws a complete fit when anyone calls BS on her. The F-Bombs to Cincom’s marketing and legal people are good examples of the problem: “Amanda” can dish it out, but cannot take it.

    When we see this in school age kids, we call it bullying. In Connolly, I think it’s just simple cowardice.

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