{"id":219,"date":"2018-08-25T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2018-08-25T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T15:50:23","slug":"dear-google-cloud-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Dear Google Cloud Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doncha just hate it when you have one of those FedEx tags on your door that says &#8220;Sorry we missed you. Your turn!&#8221;? So, I got one of those after returning from a vacation and the pickup point was the Walgreen&#8217;s a few miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The FedEx pickup desk staff asks for ID and then says, &#8220;Do you have any other ID&#8221;? which immediately reminds me of the scene from the first &#8220;Men in Black&#8221; movie. In any case, I said that I also ran a business called &#8220;Value Added Software&#8221;. So, I passed the test and I am handed a &#8220;Google Cloud Kit&#8221; for an employee called &#8220;Herbert Bergmann&#8221; and two things immediately enter my mind (multi-tasking!): 1) Why would a &#8220;cloud kit&#8221; need a box? 2) WHO is &#8220;Herbert Bergmann&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The carrot at he end of the stick is a &#8220;Google Assistant&#8221; for free. So, what did I do? I bite and schedule a conference call (coming up!) I also fired off an email to my &#8220;Google Cloud Team&#8221; member explaining that unless they are running IBM i on a PowerPC CPU I&#8217;m really not a great Google Cloud prospect.<\/p>\n<p>And who is &#8220;Herbert Bergmann&#8221;? The mystery remains&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doncha just hate it when you have one of those FedEx tags on your door that says &#8220;Sorry we missed you. Your turn!&#8221;? So, I got one of those after returning from a vacation and the pickup point was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}