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I'm about to spend a reasonable amount of time, effort and money on installing some software for around a dozen users to cope with the demands of one of our client's use of encrypted S/MIME email. Whilst there is a Firefox browser plug-in that supposedly supports S/MIME, we've taken the decision to install a stand … Continue reading Insecure security

The history of transactional relational database systems is one entwined in attempts by people from the IT world to classify things in an unambiguous and structured manner. Underpinning the principals of relational database theory is the idea that a piece of data should exist only once, and in one place. This has it's history in … Continue reading Eat sh*t

Project achievements included: - started the deployment of the new service hours agreements - structuring the post-pilot Google Docs work - starting to get alignment on the global positioning work - company-wide announcements of the London networks project - sponsor identified and approached for the managed print service project Additionally: - coped with a DNS … Continue reading Weeknote 18 – Riding the wave of busy

Last February I made some notes about some technology that I was using at the time. Thought it about time for an update. The biggest change in my information consumption has been the acquisition of an Android phone. Rarely is it used for phone calls, but Google Listen (for podcasts), NewsRob (a view of interesting … Continue reading More current stuff I like…

OK, so here's a shot across the bows of the industry sector I have worked in for much of my career. The contention - that, despite the funny haircuts, oversize glasses and three-quarter length skinny trousers, much of what we describe as the 'creative industry' is inherently conservative and 'creative' only within some very tight … Continue reading How creative?

Just read Chris Anderson's latest article in Wired, and have to say that I'm more than a little confused. He starts by taking statistics about Web (www) traffic proportions that show that, as a proportion of total internet traffic, web browsing is dropping as video and filesharing increases. If this is evidence that Web traffic … Continue reading The Web is Dead?

Project achievements included: - signing our network provider contract - facilitating one of the most complex global meetings I've ever done - Mac builds being generated in Casper - big steps towards finalisation our service hours - lifting the mist on our event management web requirements Additionally: - kept a steady ship (mostly) during a … Continue reading Weeknote 17 – five days for the price of four

Giving some thought to the changing information security policies that are needed to cope with the increasingly collaborative-based tools that are emerging in the cloud era, and it got me wondering... if the telephone were to be invented today, would it pass muster with one of the more officious information security departments? Imagine the conversation: … Continue reading So useful it'd be banned?

I'm pulling together some content for a workshop that I'm going to be running at the second European Google Atmosphere event that's taking place in a couple of weeks time at an impressive Chateau just outside Chantilly in France. When I spoke at the London CIO event in the early summer, we had just about … Continue reading Cost saving objectives…

Project achievements included: - positive movement on the group positioning project - final numbers on the networks work - additional groups identified for Google Docs piloting Additionally: - feedback to the head of the US business following last week's visit - feedback to my IT Programme group about progress in the past 12 months (lots!) … Continue reading Weeknote 16 – in which autumn falls