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I don't know if it's 'cause Bob Edwards is full tilt into lame-duck-land, but he's mighty feisty in his interview this morning about service automation: you know, the whole, "in two years, two robots will be doing this interview. Great."

Indeed, service automation is like the off-shoring of the service world. How am I gonna go be a Wal-Mart greater when my job is finally shipped off-shore if a friendly ro-bit exists to do it?! Crisis!

I guess there's always being a high-tech Hillbilly: I can always draw 3 X's on jugs and blow in da empty ones for my olde timey entertainment...and have kettle popped pop-corn. Now that I think about it, the ro-bit and me would be best friends, weee-haaa! Where's my double-barrel?

...on that note, the April issue of Business 2.0 had an interesting article about NCR, mostly how the CEO -- Mark Hurd -- has gotten the massive POS and ATM company into the black and beyond.

(As most of you, dear readers, probably know, "POS" not only stands for "Point of Sale," but "Piece of Shit." So it's a little chuckly to see an article entitle "The Wizard of POS.")