Do you have a card?

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Over the past year, I’ve fumbled around looking for business cards whenever someone asks me. I personally don’t like business cards. And I’m always hesitant to order new ones with new cell numbers, email addresses, etc. changing all the time. What I typically end up doing is taking one of their cards and writing “ITSinsider, Google me” on the back. All my contact information is all over the web in various places. If you Google ITSinsider, you’ll get my blog in the #1 page rank, generally. This site, alone, has over a dozen ways you can contact me on various social networks (see “Find me” widget).

So, I have decided this is my new card. We can’t escape our online identities, as detailed at length by this somewhat uncomfortable confessional in today’s New York Times. You are what you blog, so live with it.

Of course, someday we may skip this step altogether (the card-exchanging, old-school ritual).

The Feminist’s Ultimate Revenge…

Attending IT conferences there is normally an uncomfortable imbalance between the genders. (Guess which way?) A few weeks ago I attended SAP‘s flagship conference, SAPPHIRE. The company held a free, private concert at the Amway Arena in Orlando for the 15,000 or so SAPPHIRE attendees. Clapton, of course, was phenomenal.

One of the highlights of the show for me, however, was the obligatory rest room visit. Witness the photo below. There were lines (20 or so deep) for the MEN’s room! Fan—tastic. All the women were breezing in and out of the women’s room, only stopping to jeer at the men who were squirming in line.

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