Signs an Email is SPAM

We all get email. We all get junk email. The term that we use is SPAM email. In modern usage, we think of this as the punch line of a “Monty Python” routine. No, I will not sing the “Spam” song for you. The reality is that the term comes from an incident related to the so-called “Robert Morris” worm of 1988. Imagine a piece of Hormel canned meat thrown at the blades of a fan. What comes out the other side?

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No Doubt, IBM Insight Will Be Exciting Underneath It All

Please forgive me if I’m a little extra excited about IBM Insight next week. Last year when I attended IBM Information on Demand (IOD) 2013, the predecessor to this year’s re-christened IBM Insight, IBM had just named us a Global Training Provider after the company decided to turn the reigns of its training over to outside companies. IBM IOD was the first IBM conference I attended after that announcement. I soon found IBMers are very social media savvy. I thought only Cisco Live! and VMworld attendees were that active. I had found my people!

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