Spencer F. Katt

From: spencer_katt@ziffdavis.comSent: Monday, June 9, 2003 2:40 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: From Tech Ed security bashing to Salesforce.com gate crashing Upon downing a double bourbon in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport last Monday night, Spencer felt himself getting as corked as Sammy Sosas bat. But he needed the drink after spending all day and most of the […]

“Ich bin ein Penguiner,” caterwauled Herr Katze from the wall of Building 34 of Microsofts Redmond campus before security guards chased the fantasizing Feline from the property. SFK had thought his JFK impression would stir up more ire from the Redmondites than it did, considering recent reports that the burgermeisters of the German city of […]

“Chicago, Chicago / That toddlin town. … ” The tone-deaf Tattlemeister emulated Ol Blue Eyes as he wended his way to the Windy City last week to attend the Information Builders Summit User Conference. Although Spencers main mission was to meet and greet the “InfoElite” at the Hyatt Regency, he wandered across the hall to […]

The road-weary Kitty was finally home after living out of a suitcase during a two-week road trip of booze, schmooze and rumors of news. In a week where Microsoft couldnt decide whether to commit or get off the pot when replying to queries about its fabled Web-enabled iLoo commode, Spencer was happy to be back […]

El Gato was one feelin fine feline as he lapped up a piña colada while bobbing along the waves of the faux beach at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, where he returned mere days after his stint at the Hard Rock covering N+I. As the Vegas sun warmed his back, Spencer also basked […]

El Gato picked up his bags from the carousel at McCarran and braced himself for the dreaded cab corral. But—surprise! He had his pick of fare-starved cabbies, eager to shuttle him to his pseudoswanky digs at the Hard Rock Hotel, where the paper-thin walls provided easy listening for items of interest—including tips. The paucity of […]

Spencer began the week Monday by calling in sick. Then he hitched a ride to the start of the Boston Marathon. Spencer wanted to try out his Garmin GPS V device, but he wasnt about to get lost in the pack of 20,000 runners moving in one direction. Still, he found the bar listings along […]

From: spencer_katt@ziffdavis.com Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 1:26 AM To: eWEEK readers Subject: A Perl script for a catalog cataclysm The time: 11:55 p.m. The date: April 15. The place: Spencers neighborhood Kinkos. We find the tax-stressed Tabby waiting in line to get copies of his tax forms before “skatting” to the post office to […]

Stop reading this and get back to work, you whiner! Well, Spencer knows you may not be a whiner, but he has it on good authority that many of your IT compadres are. Thats because the fact-filching Feline heard it in so many words at a recent Mass eComm Leadership Roundtable on outsourcing in Boston. […]

From: spencer_katt@ziffdavis.comSent: Monday, April 7, 2003 12:42 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: Katt plays Silicon Prairie version of Wheres Waldo When Spencer heard that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was hosting a symposium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mosaic, he immediately began packing for the Silicon Prairie, land of boilermakers and cow tipping. As he […]