EMC's press release of May 9 says that a record number of Customers and Partners are scheduled to attend EMC World of 2007. Sounds like everyone's going right?

Well, we know a good number of people who are going, but we also know quite a few who aren't, so the word record, it makes us feel kind of, out of it.

But then there's that decoder ring beeping, and it prompts us to think...it doesn't say a record setting Momentum, or a record setting Documentum developers' conference, it says record-setting attendance at EMC-World which never before included the world that we came to know as Documentum.

So do the math, even without the specific numbers:

EMC World + Momentum + Documentum Developers' Conference = a RECORD-SETTING EMC World

Okay, that seems like quite an accomplishment, RAH! RAH!

Enough sarcasm? Maybe. Sometimes bigger really is better. EMC thinks so. Lookie here, they use the word "SEMINAL" to describe the event.

SEMINAL? Our decoder ring beeps yet again, we grab our dictionaries to look up the word seminal
Okay we say, now that we know what it means, a SEMINAL conference...

We are kidding around on this post, hoping to generate a Monday morning or smile or two. If you're going to EMC's seminal conference, let us know.

And speaking of records, or songs anyway, have you heard the Web 2.0 song Are you blogging this?