Category: General

My observations yesterday about the new Mac App Store reminded me of a concept that I've been bandying around for a few years now of the Personal Computing Allowance. In the way in which many organisations pay a car allowance to eligible staff from which the staff can choose how to provide for their transport … Continue reading Personal computing allowance

I had a bit of a twitter conversation last week with @joetierney about how Mac OS is expensive to support in a corporate environment. Part of the cost lies in the purchase price (and the disadvantages of dealing with a single supplier) but as we all should know by now (but too often forget) the … Continue reading Mac App Store

An observation from conferences in recent months. Lots of people, when describing Cloud computing, reference the Gartner hype curve, and adopt a lightly sneery voice as they say that Cloud has reached the top of that curve. The sneer indicates that the speaker knows that we've seen all this before, and, hey, the world doesn't … Continue reading Don't believe the hype (curve)

So we find ourselves at January 6th before I've been able to compose my first blog entry of 2011. You can put that down to the arrival of my second son Milo, and the fact that any spare time I have had in the past few weeks has been profitably spent aimlessly staring at walls, … Continue reading Generations

It's that time of year... here are a few reflections on 2010. The year that Imagination went into the Cloud I've spoken way too much about this, but there is probably a whole load more to come because, kids, Cloud is the future. Gone The year the world went tablety Hard to believe now, but … Continue reading Yearnote 2010

Horrible self indulgence, this, but below is a summary of media coverage I've had in 2010. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1n-0i8dLZSeoTGrl8fcBWkvxcCeB5lKOu0z-eLgolrKM&embedded=true

At 3.35pm on Monday December 13, my second son, Milo Robert was born. Next week in one word: sleepless

Project activity this week: - finishing the first part of the software audit - completing the Heads of Department presentations - printing project site audits - 2011/12 programme roadmap issued Additionally: - tied up some loose ends - interesting conversations with Andy at SaaSage and Emma & Hannah at The Cloud Circle Next week: marks … Continue reading Weeknote 31: in which I wrapped up for Christmas

A thought occurred to me yesterday whilst engaged in a bit of geeky sarcasm on Twitter (what was I supposed to do? Someone wrote that they love their Mac so much they'd pay twice the price for half the machine. I pointed out they already have. I know. I need to get out more...) Google … Continue reading The ultimate dogfood taste test challenge

Yesterday's announcements about Google Chrome throws further confusion into the traditional software world as the young search/advertising giant throws its hat into the operating system arena. Cloud is, it seems, posting similar competitive challenges into the traditional software vendor world as it is into the client-side IT management domain. What does the future hold for the … Continue reading The future for big tech companies…