{"id":220,"date":"2006-06-28T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=220"},"modified":"2006-06-28T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:32:49","slug":"welcome-to-the-blue-dorks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/06\/28\/welcome-to-the-blue-dorks\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Blue Dorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/userworld2006\/\">BMC&#8217;s User World 2006 conference page<\/a> and noticed something weird: there are videos embedded in the banner of the agenda pages. It&#8217;s a little freaky at first because it&#8217;s so out of the ordinary, but then it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/userworld2006\/preview_perf.htm\">here&#8217;s the Israel Gat<\/a>, the VP of the group I worked in while at BMC, telling you about what you could learn about BMC Performance Manager:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/userworld2006\/preview_perf.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/56\/177254505_f4a49cfe1f_o.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" alt=\"The Gat in Your Banner\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/userworld2006\/preview_perf.htm\">the page<\/a>, just click the play button and you&#8217;ll see what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like Mentos: curiously good.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the topic of videos, if you &#8220;like&#8221; smooth music (or Hall and Oats), be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel101.com\/shows\/show.php?show_id=152\">Yacht Rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\">James for the title suggestion<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> BMC is a client.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/bmc\" rel=\"tag\">bmc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/conferences\" rel=\"tag\">conferences<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/systemsmanagement\" rel=\"tag\">systemsmanagement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/thegat\" rel=\"tag\">thegat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/video\" rel=\"tag\">video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You banner is full of talking BMC execs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-systems-management"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}