by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

One tough road trip

Opinion

Feb 23, 20051 min

Every weekend Steve drives from Iowa City to Chicago to visit his girlfriend. The 200+-mile trip usually takes 4 to 5 hours.

Steve says it’s not much of a challenge anymore, so he decided to make it more difficult: He vowed to listed to only one song over and over during one trip – ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.”

Watch the hilarity here.

Via Waxy.org

Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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