E tu, Crallus?

From the “It’s only negative when Vlad criticizes it” department comes a blog post from Mark Crall beating up the Lifestyle business segment of the IT population. For what its worth, I love the “lifestyle business” movement and if I could do what I do by myself and only work two months out of the year, I’d be the first guy blogging this by the pool in my red Speedos sippin’ on a mojito.

[ pause to let you scrub out your eyes from that visual ]

What exactly is a lifestyle IT partner? I first got this term from someone fairly senior in the Microsoft Patner Program organization, talking about the partners who are only committed to the client base that fits their lifestyle: seasonal, low stress, low demand, highly strategic customers with onsite IT and just general IT direction (vision) requirements with the execution left up to someone else (usually me, thus the reason I love them).

Here is a partner lifestyle business card:

That’s just beautiful. Photo credit: John Behneman

I guess Mark will have to reprint the riffraff shirts and put his name on it too. What a divider. 🙂 And this is the guy I am paying to represent my interests to Microsoft? Even Andy is falling off the RR train, he just sent me a wonderful email:

Dear Blood Sucking Vendor,

I just wanted to be your last piece of official hate mail for 2007 😉

C Ya,

HA

Damn community. Personally, I am curious what the Crazy Ligman Impound Lot & Software Assurance team is up to. Big announcement is tomorrow night.