absurd names

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

With all the furor being made over the upcoming release of the new, revised, updated, and ready-for-battle-with-Google-and-Yahoo search tool, code named Kumo, it might be easy to dismiss it out of hand as anything with such an absurd name could only be atrocious.
But let’s think about it for a moment – what is it that [...]