An interesting day spent today at a conference run by IDC looking at the world of Unified Communications (the convergence of telephone, mobile and data). The main observations that I had out of the back of the event was that there seems to be little or no unification of mobile and fixed-line technologies at present (mainly … Continue reading Unified communications
Category: Themes
Over the years I have had many a heated discussion about how generally ineffective money is in motivating people. "Oh, but the only reason I go to work is to get paid" and similar... Now, this isn't to say that there is no connection between money and how motivated someone is - just that it … Continue reading The (de)motivational effect of money
...by linking to its article about the death of blogging...
Six weeks now into my new role, and it is becoming clearer to me that there are still major challenges for the open source community in providing services into corporate environments. Whilst the "products" from the open source community are often as good (if not better) than commercially licensed software, at the moment it seems … Continue reading Open source challenges
My continuing attempts to get with the 21st century are being experimented with again here - in principal, this should mean that I can blog automatically via email. Heck, I still see Teletext as being fairly neat...
Two and a half weeks into my new role now, and unfortunately have spent quite some time in the past few days in Kingston Hospital as my partner has required some treatment. At one point, when yet another paper form was being filled in by one of the extremely helpful nurses, she commented that (given both my partner … Continue reading Why a single NHS computer system is so scary…
I've completed my search for a new job now... I've a couple of week's off before I get started, but will soon be going to work for Imagination. Thoroughly looking forward to the new challenges.
I haven't really explained the somewhat pompous title of this blog, so I thought I should. Over the past five years or so, I've increasingly seen the benefit of using metaphor as a way of being able to cut through what can otherwise seem to be insurmountable issues. It is often much easier to solve … Continue reading By way of explanation
Chris Anderson's article in this month's Wired seems to be making a case that massive data sets (and our ability to manipulate them) means that casuality is no longer relevant --- if you can find a corelation in data then that is all that is important. It depends on what you are trying to do... … Continue reading The importance of casuality
After a few years of taking part in the Summerburn, I've stumbled across (and joined) the International Mixtape Project...
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