Clearing the nights email. I’m not well ( a feet, knees, ankles and elbows day) so it’s time for a long walk – it helps that its sunny # Called back to Lincoln to talk with consultants # Ferrybridge services, trying to relax for a while and have some breakfast....
Trouble sleeping, so trying to get email blogging to work with WordPress, without much luck # Just clearing my emails before driving to Lincoln # Talking to Mark Luter about which windows mobile devices to buy # Listening to IT conversations podcasts while driving to Lincoln # At the hospital...
Talking to Doug when I should be asleep # Finished Emails, now going for a walk and then later to Chorley for the day # Reading my feeds from last night in the Cafe Nero in Lytham # Just got a report from my Brother that my Dads doing a...
As I wrote the post below I felt uneasy with it, a few minutes later I realised that if I was happy with my twitter feed being in Public on my blog, why bother to protect it within Twitter itself. So I have changed back to an unprotected feed. What...
I’m currently doing lots of work on application delivery, reviewing the whole space and trying to map all of the different solutions to their associated business use cases and come up with decision support materials to guide customers through the maze and prioritise our investments. What does the maze look...
I’m running Vista on my Desktop and Tablet and will be running Windows 2008 Server on my lab soon. My wife and 3 of the girls are running XP and my eldest daughter is running Windows 2003 Server on their laptops so I feel a bit like a small business! ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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)...