Grumpy's Christmas Cheer

You gotta love Mike Rothman. There is something deeply rooted there that makes him who he is.  Just as everyone is getting deep in the holiday spirit, his inner Grinch comes out and he puts out his most vitriolic column in a long time.  Me on the other hand, I think of Mike as my own personal GI Joe. I dress him up with whatever hats and costumes I can find.  Here since he is the anti-thesis of the Christmas spirit, Mike dons a Santa hat.  Mike should just be lucky I don’t have any full length body shots of him otherwise he would really be in trouble!

Anyway, what has Mike so grumpy (besides canned muzak Christmas music that is). Well first it seems that its one thing to have to be drowned in end of year “what’s going to be big next year” predictions. It is quite another thing when those predictions suck.  Frankly, I don’t blame him. I have just shut down any page or article I have seen with that kind of blather.  It is far more fun to look at last years predictions and realize how wrong they were.  But Mike, if I am not mistaken, I have seen you make your share of predictions as well. And for the record not all of them were so good.

Next he takes a totally unprovoked swipe (well not a swipe, more like a left hook) at Dan Kaminsky.  Yeah, Dan is full of himself a bit, but he is pretty defenseless in this case.  I know your Mom taught you better then to pick on people.  While we are on the topic of picking on people, Mike also pokes Santa (that’s Michael Santarcangelo, not the guy up in the North Pole) for having a mobile home and wanting IT folks to develop a culture of compliance (for the record I thought it was a bad idea too. The culture of compliance, not the mobile home). 

Mike also goes after the Cisco blogger on Network World. OK, I will give him that. I don’t like that guy either. Next Imperva gets Mike’s Captain Obvious award and Russ Cooper is accused of skipping the egg nog and going straight to the heroin.

Mike finishes on a bright note though. He loves the idea that NSS kicked some IPS vendors in the nuts in their report (so did I) but can’t help himself by taking a swipe at Kevin Tolly and Tolly reports. (Mike I have done this before, expect a note from Kevin asking you to substantiate what exactly you mean there)

Then Grumpy has the balls to tell us to take note of how much we are working during this great holiday season, acknowledge our problems and take a bit of a rest getting ready for 2010?

Mike if you are going caroling next year, I would love to go with you. I can’t carry a tune, but afterwards we could pig out on the Chinese food!  Get in the spirit man!!