Archive for the 'The day job' Category

No longer the poor relative…

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

WiFi makes all the difference to a train journey.

And we like sheep

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Salary trends in the UK IT industry. If we all play follow my leader, then the IT profession will be the loser.

Backwards compatibility?

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Sticking with Microsoft is a guarantee of a painless upgrade … not always

IT – the best or worst job in the world?

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

A survey presents a gloomy view of working in IT – but which planet did they survey?

Oh what a beautiful day

Friday, April 21st, 2006

One of those days when all the right buttons get pressed.

Memory Lane

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Every so often there’s another piece of academic research published which tries to establish whether the IT industry has resulted in a net gain in productivity for commerce and industry. The jury still seems to be out (although I like the idea that playing computer games at work is good for you). Take Google – [...]

TGIF

Friday, October 28th, 2005

My errant journalist finally published his piece. In the circumstances, it could have been worse. Then had a grim time at the day job struggling with the bell curve. Went straight from work for a quiet meal to celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary (a few days early, but…), and really can’t be bothered to write [...]