The Strategy & Architecture team at work produce a quarterly journal Perspectives on Technology. It’s an in-house publication, with a distribution list of three hundred or so senior managers and influencers in the organisation. I’ve just got a ‘hot off the press’ copy of the Summer 2008 edition which includes an article on open source […]
I’m always looking for opportunities to promote open source in general (and OpenOffice.org in particular) outwith the “FOSS ghetto”. The day job is not exactly a hotbed of open source (at our last corporate Technology Conference, Steve Balmer gave a video keynote about what a great customer we are). So when I noticed that […]
Back to the day job, only to be shipped down to London for two days’ offsite with the rest of the IT management team (several hundred). I decided to take the train down, as I was very impressed with the GNER onboard wifi connection, when I used it via my own laptop. Now that our […]
Have you noticed how everything seems to happen at once? First of all, in the day job, my boss gets sent off on a ’special project’. Now, I am very happy for him, but that means I have to cover his job, and find someone to cover my job… all of which means that all […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, both in changing the culture in a huge IT shop and in promoting open-source projects
WiFi makes all the difference to a train journey.
Salary trends in the UK IT industry. If we all play follow my leader, then the IT profession will be the loser.
