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  • Artigo

imageI hate it when a web site demands you register and asks you for everything from your date of birth to your shoe size.  And I'm painfully aware that some Microsoft sites are part of this tendency. We do try group people in some broad buckets either to send them the right information in the future, or to get an idea of who we reached with a particular item. Job title helps with that, some people either  get exasperated with the forms or have a sense of humour or have very strange business cards.  I should talk ! Some people think "Evangelist" is quite a funny thing to have on your card

Here's the list of some of the titles we've seen 

  • Big Chief Computer Dude
  • Binman
  • Cabin Crew
  • Carpenter
  • Chief Snoggable Officer
  • Cross Stitch Pattern Designer
  • Emperor
  • Evil Genius
  • Fish Buyer
  • God
  • Head on a Stick
  • Infrastructure Dude
  • King of the World
  • Laxative
  • Layabout
  • Locksmith
  • Parking Attendant
  • Part-time Pimp
  • Skiver
  • Skivvy
  • Village Idiot

 

 I do wonder if "Cross Stitch Pattern Designer" is a reference the Jacquard loom. And I think I met the Chief Snoggable Officer

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    James , Andrew Fryer (new SQL/BI Evangelist) and I were helping a charity to implement some infrastructure

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    There are only 2 slashes and a colon - it might look like 3 in the photo here, (blame the phone camera) but card definitely has 2.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    You're right. I have it correct in my e-mail sig, but it's wrong on the card. {Darn, I know this - in one of posts about e.164 I said "By the way if you follow RFC3966 and make your phone number a link in the form with a URL of TEL:+44-1234-56789 (n.b. there's no // in the URL) people who have a supported dialer (like communicator) can click to dial." look at the card, and you'll see the TEL: is wrong in the same way} But then... I spelt evangelist wrong on the order and the printer got in touch to check. I guess they don't have the same understand of correct URIs as they do for correct English. Moral of the story don't set the text for your card late at night.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    :-) Someone taking The Mikado ?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Andrea, I don't think it's on their the business card, just in the forms they field in.

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    July 13, 2007
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    July 16, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
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    July 21, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2007
    Incidentally, what are those slashes doing in that mailto: URL on your business card? (See RFC 2368 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt>). Is it humor?  If so, maybe it's too subtle...

  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
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