Daily Archive: November 20, 2007

20,000 laws for data

In a thought provoking post Mark points out: There are now more than 20,000 laws world-wide that regulate how companies must protect, retain, and secure information. These laws are often complicated, and sometimes even contradictory. These rules often must be applied to all data types regardless of the application. In...

Help concentrating

Since I started suffering from Stills Disease about 6 years ago and more specifically since I spent a couple of years on Steroids to combat it, my concentration has degraded really badly.  I can measure the degradation quantitatively and it’s pretty significant, although it does vary from day to day.  ...

Young people can’t handle interrupts!

According to research commissioned by the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity undertaken by Oxford university young people actually don’t handle interrupts very well.  In fact older people cope better because of the benefits of a mature brain with many more synaptic connections.  The researchers quantified the impact of interruptions...

Establishing a community

I’m currently working hard trying to establish a community within CSC.  It’s a technical community with stakeholders from all over the company, with lots of different perspectives and drivers.  Whilst at the top level we all share business success objectives, scratch below the surface and many diverse objectives (and inconsistent)...