Spencer F. Katt

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Ah, the City by the Bay! Spence was there, yet again, this time for the SunNetwork show and seeking a fix of McNealy one-liners. But the humor was such as might tickle the funny bone of a 10-year-old when Sun reps passed out gummy worm candy packs labeled: “Edible Worms. The only kind youll find […]

El Gato thought he was having a flashback from an old Earth, Wind & Fire concert as he was assaulted by OracleWorlds strobe lights, which flickered along with an almost seizure-inducing crimson beam across perforated grids and billowing clouds of dry-ice smoke inside San Franciscos Moscone Center. “Grid Has Landed,” proclaimed the white-on-black placards featuring […]

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It took more than an hour and about $60 in credits, but Spence finally scored one basket while playing the free-throw game at the ESPN Zone restaurant in Times Square. As the 13-year-olds who had been taunting the Tabby dispersed, El Gato dumped his chili fries into his briefcase and skatted to the Javits Center […]

Some like it hot, but the cool Kitty opted for air conditioning and open bars during his recent travels, which included Hotlanta and Lost Wages. HP World organizers must have thought the searing heat had gone to the Furry Ones head when he congratulated them for skipping idle chatter about utility computing and adaptive enterprises […]

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El Gato was glad to be back home in Boston, where the political scandals seem quaint when compared with the three-ring circus being conducted in Cali for the governors seat. While home, the Kitty got a new lesson in high-tech headhunting when he checked out the XML Web Services One show under way in Beantown. […]

Spencer stepped up to the bar at the W Hotel near the Moscone to order the usual. Then he glanced around. Yikes! Geeks and ambulance chasers cheek and jowl. Both groups were there to decompress—geeks from LinuxWorld and the lawyers from an American Bar Association conference, which were both being held across the street at […]