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…
Bill Withers - Lovely Day On December 6th, 2008, Enza and I got married. This is the first song we heard as a married couple. It was. It continues to be. Number one on my birthday in 1977:ABBA - Name of the Game Next year is better. Honestly. Click here for the playlist so far.
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
I wrote last week about the dangers of confusing measurements with objectives. It was with a mix of anger and bemusement that I watched a news item on the BBC last night that perfectly illustrated by way that the coalition government has shafted itself in pandering to the readership of the Daily Mail. The government … Continue reading Measuring stupidly
So, there we go. Three months, 48 photos, and what have we learned? Well, that there is some interesting stuff to look at if you just raise your gaze. And that I seem to have a slightly unhealthy interest in trains (blame 20 years of knowing @tallnohair and 20 months of knowing @commutr). All the … Continue reading #summerlookedup
My delightful, nearly ten-month old son yesterday ate his first blackberry. Unfortunately not the bramble-variety (he loves those, particularly with apple and pear). This was one of the larger, Canadian ones; my life's slightly aged 8000-series. Oscar somehow managed to tooth and gum his way through the keyboard. Whilst the on button still works, nothing … Continue reading Unnecessary and useless lard-arse bloatware
Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection 1976 had a very hot summer. It was also the year that punk really sprung onto the scene. I, however, was five years old for most of the year, and so found punk an affront to my sensitive young ears. (Funnily enough, when you listen back to it now, … Continue reading 1976
Project achievements included: - exploration of tools for creative collaboration - the Dearborn office enabled for Google Docs - and initial scoping for network and server refresh Additionally: - some great time spent with people across the New York and Detroit offices - catching up with my old boss from Reuters - experiencing the build … Continue reading Weeknote 15 – in which I went Stateside
