CIOs need to prepare for a future business computing model without the PC First published on CIO.co.uk, January 2017. This one has turned out to be a bit wrong, given Covid... In my work in the last few years I've been skirting between the worlds of digital and traditional IT. One of the things that … Continue reading CIO Archive: #noPC
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And so we enter the last 10 albums of this project... In 2011 I left what had been, to that date, my most successful job to date and joined Microsoft. After six interviews, I'm not sure how we didn't all work out that this wasn't going to work out. Culturally, I was never going to … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 2011
Where exactly has 10 years gone? When I wrote the first of these little diary entries back in 2010 I didn't really think that I'd still be doing them more than a decade later. Bar a couple missed during holidays, and one or two posted on a Saturday because the Friday was just too exciting, … Continue reading Weeknote 500: Ten Years of Weeknoting
I love the geekiness of Hot Chip. I also love the music and the tender yet essentially maudlin lyrics. The essence of good disco music, basically. I also recall hearing an interview with one of the members of Hot Chip and hearing how despite being a successful modern pop band they were basically brassic. The … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 2010
This week I have learned: the restorative power of a good break.that it seems I'm getting the key people onside with the longer term approach.liminal is becoming increasingly important. That chap Roland Harwood is a visionary.Back to the office is not the same thing as back to work. I've never worked as hard as I … Continue reading Weeknote 499: Back to it
I know that Lily Allen annoys some people, but that's probably even more reason to like her. Clever, witty lyrics, and not all about pop song guff. The single The Fear, for example, being a caustic analysis of the consumer/celebrity world that no doubt Lily skirted in and out of. We listened to this album … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 2009
The albums in this list generally fall into one of two categories; those that contain music that sum up in some way events contemporary to their release (from when I was 16 or so onwards, for the most part), and those that sum up a particular period of my life but I came to late.Seventh … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 2008
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In 2007 my now wife and I got together. When we first met she had a Mazda MX5 and I have delightful memories of driving around with her in that summer listening to Soundboy Rock, the top down on the car, in love. https://open.spotify.com/album/7tRuSfPQNDZ5IbWFS6dNF9?si=6kY0jB9ESl2doFMEFg3GXg You can see the #51for50 project to date here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/category/projects/51-for-50/
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