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e mërkurë shtator 29, 2004
eleven words infant creeper: not for Charlotte! This summer Jonathan Schwartz communicated his corporate priorities: eleven words we're all supposed to learn by heart. I've never been a very good Kool Aid drinker, not to mention my memory who looks more like a graph of pointers (or uris, RDF anyone?-) to external ressources than a content store for whatever fad of the day.
He mentioned the baby infant creeper that some guys put up for sale at Cafepress, with the eleven words on it, in his post (By the way the link in his post is broken, these guys in the meantime changed their domain name from Cafeshop to Cafepress): fun derisive idea showing how ridiculous corporate culture can be. But I wouldn't expect anyone to buy this stuff!
Wrong was I! Last week when I met my friend Ludovic Dubost at the Paris Open Source get Together, he offered me the ridiculous creeper with a large voracious smile (we both had kids at the same period this summer)! What am I gonna do with it? Probably use it to clean my computer screen. I don't want little Charlotte to wear such a creepy creeper!
As for Ludovic, how am I going to get revenge? Maybe offering him a Snipsnap or Confluence creeper for his baby, if such a thing exists (he's the founder of the xWiki competing project)
What I learnt from this sad story though is that the Cafepress service exists and lets you design your own T-shirts and put them for sale to share them with friends. I used to design many (too many according to my wife:-) of my T-shirts myself: design, print on transfer paper, iron. But the process to send them to friends was too time consuming, so I mostly did it for family events. I'm sure I'll use this service a lot!
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