System i Addict

So I got my session evals from COMMON. I didn’t do all that bad, but one comment made me laugh and sad. First it was my first year giving everything but, Do You Ubuntu? So all this material is stuff I know just need to work on the delivery, hey cut me some slack!

This comment was from my Shell Scripting Session:

“This session was a waste of time. The instructor is an embarrassment to IBM!”

My Comments: I didn’t that I did so bad I embarrassed IBM, good lord, do you think they know I am an embarrassment. The joke here is I don’t work for IBM and the last time I was even remotely connected to the was when I was a contractor in 1998. While I have been an embarrassment to many people in my life I didn’t know I stunk so bad as to offend a company that has nothing to do with me, and for that matter I am probably an embarrassment to Blogging too….

Thanks for the comments. Shell Scripting while important is not my best session, yet it got one of the nastiest comments and some of the better scores, hell the session I thought I knocked out of the park got crappy reviews. The Bloggers session was “average”. Lordy lordy we are in trouble.

I also got some other more useful and correct comments like:

“David is a great speaker and knowledgeable. “ - WOW thanks!
“Very simple and well shown - thanks! ” - That is nice
“Was very good. Was late and seemed a bit unprepared. Could be a great presenter. “ - In my defense I could not find the room? But at least I could be great!
“Found out about Web min - good tool!” - Webmin Rocks!
“We could have used more time, great handout.” - I miss being with you too!