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A fascinating edition of Horizon last night, BBC 2's serious science programme. It looked at work that various mostly psychology groups are doing to understand what illusions (optical and auditory tricks, conjuring and so on) can tell us about the way in which our brains make sense of the world around us. A couple of … Continue reading Just an illusion

I wrote the following for a newsletter that a friend of mine is publishing out to her company's clients and contacts. It's a distillation of much that I've been thinking about recently: Cloud computing is reaching the apex of its hype curve at the moment as established IT service companies jostle for position in the … Continue reading Evolving in the Cloud

Project achievements included: - Google Apps six-month evaluation survey launched - Continued works around phase 2 governance and roll-out plan - Resolution of issues with network cabinet acoustics - ITIL Process implementation planning - Scoping for Archiving, content management and Digital asset management continues... Additionally: - Interesting discussions about the role of learning and development … Continue reading Weeknote 23 – in which I spent an entire week in the office

There are two skills we seem to be losing in this always-on, always-connected world we now live in (there are probably many more, and as many we are gaining, but bear with me...) The first is our ability to remember telephone numbers. I can still remember not only the number for my parent's first house … Continue reading Instant Gratification

In my conversations with some of the Google Enterprise sales people last week in Dublin, one of the themes that came up again and again is the challenge of selling Cloud into traditional IT departments. The bottom line is that it's a major threat if your personal line of business is providing networks, servers, PCs … Continue reading Turkeys voting for Christmas

Project achievements included: - continuation of the core network project - and of the printing procurement (who'd have thought we had so many already) - and of the authentication project - and some more structure on the Docs roll-out Additionally: - two days spent at the Europlex, meeting with Googlers and Google Clients - and … Continue reading Weeknote 22 – in which I appeared on telly

A very surreal day yesterday which culminated in sitting in a Dublin hotel room watching myself on TV. If you missed it, you should be able to find it here: http://www.channel4.com/news/microsoft-cloud-to-revolutionise-computing

Project achievements included: - new core fibre installed in Store Street - printing project audit underway - kick-off for new authentication infrastructure - investigations began for exploring Picasa on a corporate basis Additionally: - attended the CIO Summit, and interviewed for CIO.co.uk - also interviewed for CIT Magazine Next week in one word: Dublin

I commented on Twitter yesterday that it seemed from recent experiences, the majority of CIOs don't get Social Media and the Web 2.0 thing. There were a few comments - one saying that this probably was the case across most boardrooms, and another asking why did it matter? In his talk at Google Atmosphere last … Continue reading Show your working