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
Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 The story of Coldcut (abridged): two massive pop hits ('People Hold On' and 'The Only Way is Up') in the late eighties followed by setting up the Ninja Tune label and being some of the most innovative DJs (and latterly VJs) on the scene. The label and offshoots have produced … Continue reading 1997
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
DJ Shadow - Changeling I was talking with a school friend of 24 years ago on Facebook a couple of days ago about how much of my life was intrinsically linked to the BBC. I owe my very existence to the Corporation, as it was there that my parents met in the 1960s. In the … Continue reading 1996
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
2 Player - Extreme Possibilities 1995 and the beginning of the 'years of dance music'. As is it seems customary in my musical history, I came to the dance scene a little later than some. Mostly this was because I couldn't really see much of interest in the four-to-the-floor 'bleepshite' that seemed to dominate much … Continue reading 1995
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
I've been in Dublin for the past couple of days, spending time with the Google Enterprise team out here, and also telling the story about our move into the Cloud to attendees of the Think With Google conference, which is attended by customers of the Google advertising product set. Spending two days in the Europlex … Continue reading TravelBlog Extra – Live from the Europlex
Presented yesterday and today at the Think With Google event in Dublin. The slides are below: (another variation on a theme)
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
