The Same, Only More So

Hello. I’m David Karp, director of product marketing and your new host here on The Ipswitch Blog. Don’t panic, nothing big is changing right away. We’re going to maintain and sustain the established theme of The Ipswitch Blog: the technological abuse of small and mid-sized companies by the fools and madmen of the industry. Then we’re going to do a little redecorating on the site, add more podcasting and also talk more about how people and products work at Ipswitch, at the office and on the road.

So that we may now get on to kicking off the New Year and this new, next chapter of The Ipswitch Blog, I’ll finish on this more personal note…

I want to tell you about a dessert I had on New Year’s Eve. I was at a fancy Italian place in downtown Boston, and after a wonderful dinner, the chef sent over Mascarporeos, a plate of dark chocolate biscuits and a small cup of creamy mascarpone, like the filling of a cannoli. It’s sort of a DIY gourmet oreo®. Far better than an oreo after a nice meal, it was so simple and appropriate compared to the usual run of gourmet desserts, things like “candy glass pyramid over lingonberry-infused espresso waffles with vaporized ginger” or the “slice of pie as big as your head” you get in restaurants named for days of the week. And, it’s a one-word googlewhack, at least until this page gets indexed.

So to make a long, if tasty, metaphor short, sometimes you can make a great idea better with a little imagination and outstanding execution, and sometimes that’s a whole lot more satisfying than the biggest or most complicated solution money can buy.