This is just hilarious – courtesy of The Onion:
McCain’s Economic Plan For Nation: ‘Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress’
Play Palin in the Oval Office
Posted on October 15, 2008 ·
Take your eyes off the stock ticker, it’s too painful… let’s play instead.
Click the pic to play – you can hover above and click various objects… but whatever you do, don’t click the red phone!
SAP TechEd: Windows is Out. But Windows are In.
Posted on October 14, 2008 ·
My fellow Enterprise Irregulars are at SAP’s TechEd in Berlin, Germany. David Terrar is apparently in Windows-prison, as he observed:
Here in the Bloggers Room at SAP TechEd 2008, the Windows users (of which I am one) are consigned to one end of the room. We have to take regular abuse from the Mac fanboys. As you can see, the score is Apple Mac 8 Windows based PCs 3. In the blog world we M$ types appear to be a dying breed.
I told him he’d probably get a very different count in the keynote theater, where the real corporate folks are, who don’t have a choice – unless they all work for Citrix. 
Photo credit: David Terrar
But there’s something else strikingly obvious on this photo. Windows is out. But Windows are in – I mean the real ones, letting daylight in. This is something we’ll never get in the US. I almost forgot the luxury of having windows (not the MS-kind) is quite normal in Europe.
The World According to Americans
Posted on October 7, 2008 ·
A little laugh before Debate Night – rediscovered on Dennis Howlett’s re-launched Dinglebum.
P.S. Apologies for the obsolete map. It clearly should have been updated to indicate Afghanistan as our neighbors. Oh, and let’s not forget about Czechoslovakia. 
Update (11/27/09): Wow, a year later this is still going around….
Breaking: McCain Upgrades VP Candidate
Posted on October 3, 2008 ·
This just in: Senator McCain traded in Sarah Palin for an equally qualified newer model:
Cloudy Fusion
Posted on September 28, 2008 ·
Image by wicho via Flickr
The Enterprise Irregulars took over CloudAve… well, sort of, forcing us to release an article early. Eran Kampf had a post lined up for Monday morning about Larry Ellison’s Cloud Envy, when all of a sudden fellow Irregular Anshu Sharma had a humor attack and came out with a hilarious post. All he did was replace Cloud Computing with Fusion in Larry’s famous rant, and voila!:
"The interesting thing about Fusion is that we’ve redefined Fusion to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t Fusion with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"
"We’ll make Fusion announcements. I’m not going to fight this thing. But I don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of Fusion other than change the wording of some of our ads. That’s my view."
Wow. This variant of Ellison’s speech makes a lot of sense, referring to his own elusive Fusion applications. Even Vinnie Agrees.
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Subprime Primer – What, Me Worry? :-)
Posted on September 28, 2008 ·
This recycled presentation is making the rounds amongst the Enterprise Irregulars this morning:
Recycled, as it was first published in February, 2008 – see the financial crisis was not that unexpected, after all. Apologies for the language used in the last few slides – I’m just the messenger. 
Of course not everyone feels a financial crisis. Here’s a report from another Irregular:
The Monaco Yacht show finished yesterday, and this year bigger and better than ever. Lots of buyers, new now is a distinct increase of Asians, especially Chinese and of course the usual Russians.
In fact same things happening as for every general downturns – big boats are just fine, small not so good.
…The big ones though see no slowing down at all, if any of you are in the market to build a not too big one in the 70 to 80 meter size (reckon a million € per meter) at a good name yard (Germany, Holland) reckon with delivery earliest in 2015. Not a slot to be found before 2012 now. (And if you are, you know who to call of course)
As always, the rich (seriously rich that is) goes "what, me worry?"
Hm… all I can add is I like this description on the Show’s site (warning: don’t click the viewer applet with Firefox under Vista, you’ll regret it):
Aft deck beach area with pool that transforms into a helideck.
Something tells me I could not afford even the YaaS (Yacht-as-a-Service) version.
Update: For a bit more serious view, check out We are all Japanese now.
Twitter Romance?
Posted on September 24, 2008 ·
you know you are all grown up when you are purchasing your first very own toilet scrubber.
about 7 hours ago from web
Teresa Wu
And the response:
@resawu I’ve since purchased two toliet scrubbers along my path to adulthood. I think I’m pretty much ready for children now
about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to resawu
Daniel Ha
Well, it wouldn’t be the first one 🙂
Update: Toilet’s indeed play an important role in a startup’s life.
SaaS is an Ancient Model
Posted on August 28, 2008 ·
Lots of talk today about how the SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years. I don’t get it: if it survived 40 years, why would it collapse now? Yes, that’s right, SaaS has been a successful model for 4 decades now. Need proof? Check out Technorati linking to my post on the NetSuite IPO 11119 days ago. That’s 38 and a half years, give and take a few weeks. 
Oh, well, that was the fun part, for real analysis check out my fellow Enterprise Irregulars:
Jason Corsello, Anshu Sharma, Vinnie Mirchandani, Bob Warfield, Josh Greenbaum.
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