Entries categorized as ‘Rants’
It seems the whole universe is “tweeting” about something, and we, as a culture, just can’t get enough of it:
- Some celebs have exceeded 1 MILLION followers, and that makes the “news”. Gee, pardon my lack of excitement.
- Senators and Congress{men|women} tweeting during Obama’s address to Congress. Have they forgotten about decorum and manners?
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Categories: Rants · Thoughts
Once a year, it happens. My birthday, that is. I won’t yammer on and on about birthdays, and how when you get to be “over-the-hill”, you don’t want to think about birthdays. No, I’m perfectly fine with my age (hey, I earned my grey hair!).
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Categories: CRM · Rants · Thoughts
I think it goes something like this: “’tis better to have loved and lost, or to never have loved at all?”
To put a twist on it a bit, is it better to have competed and lost, or never to have competed? That is the question.
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Categories: Rants · Thoughts
Can’t you just envision this as being a perfect line of Alice Kramden dialogue from an episode of The Honeymooners? Ralph is contriving some plan with Norton, purporting to be “the expert” on whatever scheme is being cooked up. And in steps clear-headed Alice, to utter the deflating question that brings it all back into perspective, “Oh, so now you’re an expert, huh?”
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Categories: Consulting · IT · Rants
Does anyone else think that when you install a Lawson application, install locations should be remembered for future installs?
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Categories: LSF9 · Lawson · Lawson S3 · Rants
As they say, “wonders never cease”, or something like that.
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Categories: LWSN · Lawson · Rants · Support
I know, I know. I pick on Lawson Support too much. (more…)
Categories: Lawson · Rants · Support
This is a topic which always generates a lot of debate. On the one hand, you have Lawson, which touts its “enterprise-readiness”, and its ability to support large enterprises. Most of us think of Lawson as a software vendor targeting small-to-medium companies, but ask any Lawson executive or salesperson, and they will tell you, “oh, we compete with SAP and
Oracle all they time, and we win, too!”
Some oft-cited examples:
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Categories: ERP · LWSN · Rants · Thoughts
Maybe I’m just not hip enough to get it.
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Categories: Rants
Nothing says “we don’t care” better than lousy customer service. This was the “greeting” I received this morning on Lawson’s Support site when trying to open a case:

Maybe I’m just a little unreasonable, but this was on a Monday morning at 8:25am EDT. (more…)
Categories: Rants · Support