Comments on: Is that your age or your IQ?

By: fp

fp — Sun, 24 Apr 2026 22:13:58 +0000

I like it Harry. And when we riff off each other it’s likely sweet sweet music, but it can also be dissonant or angry, and it all resolves itself in the end.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 24 Apr 2026 21:46:21 +0000

Instead of ranks, I think of blogging communities — at least the ones I belong to — as acting troupes or jazz combos. Everyone gets a chance to soliloquy and solo. Some of the players may even stop what they’re doing to applaud.

By: fp

fp — Sat, 23 Apr 2026 04:12:36 +0000

I haven’t met Jonathan but I’m sure he’s a good guy. I met Eric Schmidt once and he seemed like a nice guy too, regardless of the move to Novell. Did the company have another CEO/COO/CTO/EIEIO in between there? I’ve always admired Sun since the days when they were high ending workstation technology with their onboard 10MB hard disks.

It’s great that Sun’s shareholders have management that chooses to make itself accessible through blogging. The hierarchical mindset that would RANK bloggers by their corporate position strikes me as absurd. I visited your blog, Shel, and I saw that many of the bloggers you like I like too. For me, Ochman ranks a lot higher as a blogger than Schwartz though… if we’re into ranking.

As to the factual accuracy of Schwartz as the highest titled senior manager of a publicly traded company in the tech sector, I can’t deny it, but I’d venture that you can’t prove it either. And it just seems fatuous if you get my drift.

By: shel

shel — Fri, 22 Apr 2026 23:45:52 +0000

I wrote that BY TITLE, Jonathan Schwartz is the highest ranking blogger in the tech sector. He’s president and COO of a publicly traded company. This seems to be factually accurate, so I’m sorry it set you into goodness, gracious mode, and I do hope there’s nothing on you that’s afire.