I was reading another blog or two.. yes, it was over at the Inovis blog site.. Anyway, I'd taken a week of vacation and needed to catch up on My reading.. Over there, I found blogs about SaaS (Software as a Service) and GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) and more and more... Then I was thinking about EDI and GTIN and UPC and SKU and all the other acronyms and alphabet soups we all have in our lives and our jobs and careers. But it made Me also think of another group of letters that used to be used in the MIS/IT industries - back when it was Computer Science - and it was GIGO.. Do you remember GIGO..? Garbage in, garbage out.... I'm wondering how many of us deal with end users that seem to forget that the computers we use - no matter how fancy and new and no matter how much RAM we're using or Ghz the processor can process at; no matter how many mbps/kbps we can download at, the computer is nothing more than a giant calculator.. It's just taking the stuff WE input and processing it to get to the output we desire. It's still all just strings of Ones (1) and Zeros (0) that we're pushing through, getting to our final destination.. ...