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May
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05-21 – Video: Software Is Ephemeral
05-25 – On LLMs, Push Joints, and embracing the change
05-30 – On Continuous Acceptance
Cheshire Cat (Bloor Research)
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1999
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April
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04-01 – Government launches IT White Paper
04-01 – Open Goal for Microsoft
04-01 – IT-Director.com launched by Bloor Research, Certus and Silicon News
04-09 – The Art Of War
04-09 – ISAs and Legacy Systems
04-12 – Sailing the Shifting Sands of Silicon
04-12 – Global Village Voice
04-14 – Applications - Rent or Buy?
04-14 – Internet Value – Business Sense
04-14 – Linux - Immature but happening anyway
04-16 – The Sun is Shining Again
04-16 – For Banking, the Future is Online
04-22 – The hidden cost of Internet Real Estate
04-22 – Turbulent times for IT stocks
04-22 – Quantity is not the only answer.
04-26 – Coming soon to your screens ….
04-26 – Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam
04-27 – Signs of Internet Immaturity
04-27 – IT Security doesn’t have to be Rocket Science
04-27 – Network Computing has its place
May
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05-04 – ECommerce Crisis
05-10 – The demise of the call centre
05-10 – Agnostic to what’s in the box
05-10 – IT Infrastructure for free
05-11 – A Safety Basis for Y2K
05-11 – Time is running out for Iridium
05-11 – Arranged Marriages to rule eSpace
05-12 – Gigabit over copper? Never say never!
05-12 – Linux on trial
05-13 – £50M for NHS IT – Plan wisely, spend wisely
05-13 – See the future – read my palm
05-13 – Cable, digital, set top box. Cable, digital, set top box
05-14 – New laws for the online community
05-14 – Adrenalin keeping the online hermits going
05-14 – Microsoft Open Source is missing the point
05-28 – IBM goes in Deep
05-28 – Bizness as usual for Microsoft
05-28 – TANSTAAFL, but we'll throw in the starter
June
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06-07 – Baan’s battles not over yet
06-07 – The science of appliances
06-07 – Microsoft at the Perly Gates
06-09 – Office 2000 is out – but is it in?
06-09 – Amazon’s laws of the Jungle
06-09 – Information Overload is a Distraction
06-12 – The Internet is going, to Worms that is
06-12 – Commerce Electronique? Ja, bitte!
06-12 – Sony gets Music Shops Online
July
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07-01 – Linux fails at the OS Corrall. So What?
07-01 – The sad truth about ADSL
07-01 – More e-Baa than e-Business
07-04 – Local loop open for competition
07-04 – Yahoo bows to people pressure
07-04 – XML – the common language is half the battle
07-14 – CA SANITI illustrates the problem with management frameworks
07-14 – Jiro clarifies SUN’s open intentions
07-14 – IPV6 picks up momentum at last
07-16 – PC-on-chip spells end for consumer hardware costs
07-16 – 8i reasons to go Oracle
07-16 – Apache grows up – and up
07-31 – Thor poses Open Source threat to Windows 2000
07-31 – Sun's rising Star to catalyse device revolution
07-31 – Hotmail hacked, but who's to blame?
September
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09-01 – OS vendors on the Merced starting grid
09-01 – Cisco keeps its focus with IBM deal
09-01 – Mac is back with new Pentium-killers
09-02 – System I/O fabric to transform computing architecture model
09-02 – Intel and IBM bring processing to the network
09-02 – Solaris tightens Merced screws on Microsoft
09-03 – Microsoft faces Hobson’s choice for W2K
09-03 – From Kidneys to Iridium shares – what will eBay auction next?
09-03 – Open Sky’s wireless PDA future leaves Microsoft out in the cold
09-08 – Mainframes lead resurgence in software tools
09-08 – Nor.Web left on the wayside of the superhighway
09-08 – NT Pragmatists strip Microsoft naked
09-08 – ISPs get tools to help SMEs compete in online economy
09-08 – Killer App for voice recognition – don’t hold your breath
09-08 – Is today the day the doomsayers have their picnic?
09-09 – Dell gets the Acquisition bug
09-09 – Transatlantic porn test case gets result – sort of
09-09 – Microsoft’s Cool shades preach Java doom
09-09 – Argos misses the decimal point
09-09 – Sega’s Dreamcast – millstone or milestone?
09-09 – Apple at the gates of dawn
09-10 – W2K gets first UK deployment
09-10 – AmEx builds Blue bridge over Web payment waters
09-10 – Waitrose ISP – now we are truly free
09-10 – 9-9-99 – Reasons to be cheerful, or not
09-10 – HP bring DVD+RW a step closer
09-21 – IT Directors – hold your heads high
09-21 – SNIA Comes to Europe
09-21 – Oracle, HP and Siegel – picking up the CRuMbs?
09-24 – Software pricing to plummet – is Linus Right?
09-24 – Free domain names – a quick thrill
09-28 – Ohh, James… is that a Jornada in your pocket?
09-28 – MCI-WorldCom – Sprint to a finish?
09-28 – MSN is open for discussion
October
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10-11 – HandSpring will fuel device revolution
10-11 – MCI gets hands on Sprint
10-11 – eCommerce in the UK RPI – a final call to arms
10-12 – Moore’s Law not a barrier to progress
10-12 – Vendors poised to tear down the Broadband wall
10-12 – GTE launch carrier-class VoIP service
10-13 – Travelocity ups gear and merges with Preview Travel
10-13 – Y2K’s winter to freeze SMEs
10-13 – Linux and NT – The myths exposed
10-14 – ASP's – The Age of the Information Power Hub
10-14 – W2K no Y2K
10-14 – HP eases itself into NAS waters
10-15 – Dream is over for UK ISPs
10-15 – What’s in SUN’s sights next year? Microsoft, of course.
10-15 – Anyone for eTea?
10-25 – Sun sets up autonomous Forté, completes its Java portfolio
10-25 – ASPs – how IT can learn from the Comms guys
10-25 – Coppermine braces itself, without Rambus
10-26 – VDSL beats back Broadband bounds
10-26 – Orange dreaming of a WAP Christmas
10-26 – Loi 495 – allez le source ouvert!
10-27 – Future of UK Enigma site continues to confound
10-27 – Xerox’s 18-month European Plan
10-28 – Micromuse setting their sights high
10-28 – Thin server appliances drive OS shakeup
10-29 – UK Govt PC plans miss the mark
10-29 – Amazon grace under pressure
10-29 – Mobile gives Voice Recognition its killer app
November
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11-22 – Silver Surfers fuel UK Net growth
11-22 – Real Time Linux to become a Reality
11-22 – DNA points to chasm in the law
11-23 – IP becomes carrier protocol of choice
11-23 – Chip development goes up a level or two
11-23 – Bluetooth is going not going to change the local networking landscape… yet
11-24 – Microsoft: the lighting of the long fuse
11-24 – Directory services lead Novell out of the mire
11-24 – Can Linux workstations change SGI’s fortunes?
11-25 – Compaq provides litmus test for OS debate
11-25 – Chip wars come to a head, just in time
11-25 – Zero cost IT – only...
December
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12-07 – Nokia forges Europe’s mobile future, threatens the silicon boy wonders
12-07 – Where lies the future of Web advertising?
12-07 – Microsoft: Java comatose, W2K holds key to bypass operation
12-22 – Novell bets its future on ASPs
12-22 – 3Com – first the strategy, the rest will follow
12-22 – Y2K – believe us, we’d rather be wrong
2000
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January
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01-07 – Tokyo Joe suit starts the legal ball rolling
01-07 – AOL-TV brings forth embedded Linux – by stealth
01-25 – At Linus’ Transmeta, Crusoe finds its Friday
01-25 – Linux consortium brings new weight to embedded debate
01-25 – British Telecom – looped around a rock and a hard place
01-25 – Microsoft delays aspirations to be gatekeeper of the virtual enterprise
February
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02-03 – Free-PC is dead! Long live the free PC
02-09 – Look at me, Mum! I killed eBay!
02-09 – EU W2K case puts cart before horse
02-09 – Java overtakes C++, takes number one development slot
02-14 – Microsoft gets back to its UNIX roots with Interix
02-14 – Lastminute.com provides an IPO acid test
02-14 – IBM strengthens ties with Rational but keeps the agnostic faith
02-16 – Transport and environmental groups stress real impacts of eCommerce
02-18 – Web travel companies on the back foot
02-18 – Microsoft Windows – the Gates left open
02-18 – PointCast – Did it fall, or was it…
02-23 – Alcatel joins the new generation networking crowd
02-28 – Ford, GM, Daimler put business at the helm of technology
02-28 – Do you Yahoo!? Go on Murdoch, you know you want to
March
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03-03 – For Palm, it is just the beginning. For 3Com…
03-03 – Thomson Travel: there’s life in the old dog yet
03-03 – Cable, wireless and now the servers: C&W goes ASP
03-28 – Big Cis hits the top
03-28 – Online photo clubs – the killer app for SSPs
03-28 – Directory sky hook too late for Novell?
April
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04-28 – Will USB become the system bus of the future?
04-28 – Sony goes Symbian: whence Palm?
May
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05-01 – Microsoft – down, not out, but not in neither
05-01 – Phew! ISP’s found not liable for email content
05-05 – Tele2 – a niche wireless solution for the corporate masses
05-05 – We are all to blame for the I Love You virus
05-05 – Web users may be going up, but service quality is not
05-11 – G8 jaw, jaw, jaw about Cyberspace law
05-11 – Storage Networks - the storage space goes ASP
05-19 – Love and viruses: the upside of crying wolf
05-19 – Monterey on borrowed time
05-25 – Microsoft SOAP on the ROPEs
05-25 – From blue screens to screen blues for handheld manufacturers
05-25 – Is it time for a socially responsible Internet?
June
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06-01 – Cybercafes reach the farmers of India
06-01 – SurfTime: BT drops the Beach Ball
06-01 – NetSanity brings one-stop publishing to the Web
06-07 – NEON’s iWave bridges the business process divide
06-07 – DOJ separates Windows from its reason
06-08 – Encryption: Should the RIP bill rest in peace?
06-14 – Cheer up, Lou – $2.1 Trillion should ease your pain
06-15 – Spam ban, thank you Ma’am
06-15 – Sun Storage: the future is bright, the future’s Purple
06-15 – Telecomms unbundling – watching the watchers
06-22 – Microsoft registers www.NewStrategy.NET
06-22 – IBM’s voice recognition grows up
06-28 – European tech investment rides the storm
06-30 – Ain’t the PC dead yet?
06-30 – Guess how Clinton signed the Digital Signature bill?
06-30 – Sun’s second thoughts about Open Source Solaris
July
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07-06 – EC to Microsoft: We just don’t trust you
07-06 – Web service: still no cigar
07-06 – Oracle’s NC relaunch – Its not about winning, its about taking part
07-14 – Red Sun is rising on Linux
07-14 – MCI WorldCom and Sprint run into the sand
07-14 – Microsoft for rent
07-21 – eCommerce comes in from the cold
07-21 – Would mad cows use mobile phones?
07-21 – Unbundling on course, but so was the Titanic
07-31 – Napster movement goes underground, people responsible
07-31 – Microsoft Windows for free
07-31 – TANSTAA Free Internet Service
August
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08-25 – CA shifts innovation from marketing to business strategy
September
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09-01 – How many Open Source developers does it take…
09-01 – Marillion.com – turning the record industry on its head
09-08 – Sony - lies and on the take?
09-08 – XML – in, out, in, out
09-08 – mCommerce – less big bang, more whimper
October
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10-11 – Geoworks WAP licensing – fast buck or insurance policy?
10-11 – Bluetooth PANs the Wireless LAN
Nothing To Declare
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1999
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November
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11-17 – Nobody ever listens!
2003
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May
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05-08 – Review: A solid, practical mug with a thoughtful, understated design.
05-30 – h's bar
05-30 – Earth to...
June
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06-07 – BT and the art of customer service #1
06-10 – BT and the art of customer service #2
06-12 – Pamela's Book Launch
July
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07-10 – Microsoft and tears
07-13 – Somewhere over the Atlantic
07-15 – Conference Urges
07-18 – Boston whales
07-18 – Opeth in Providence
07-19 – The Threadbare Carpet
07-31 – The Gazpacho and Green Glass Incident
October
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10-01 – Weird Week
10-27 – Four Colours Solution?
2004
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March
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03-07 – Now reading: Dead Air
03-18 – Stupid bloody, bloody trains
April
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04-18 – Invisible Man
May
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05-14 – You're gone...
June
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06-04 – Walking the dog
August
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08-05 – Sold on voice recognition
October
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10-22 – Mobility is seasonal
10-22 – Wine
November
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11-02 – New UK Rock Station
11-26 – Nasty Upgrades
2005
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May
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05-24 – eConstructing: Life on Mars
05-24 – eConstructing: From Vitruvius to Zachmann
05-24 – Marillion Bass Museum 17 November 2000
05-24 – Cryptonomicron
05-24 – The Art of Heroic Failure
05-24 – eConstructing: Of Evolution and Revolution
05-24 – The revolution that never was
05-24 – Prochain Pipeline and the Theory of Constraints
05-24 – eConstructing: Darwin and Punk Eek
05-25 – All About: Wireless Networking
05-25 – All About: Web Services
05-25 – Porcupine Tree Boston 22 June 2002
05-25 – All About: Broadband Communications
05-25 – All About: Hosted Applications
05-25 – All About: eXtensible Markup Language, XML
05-25 – All About: Tech Resources
05-25 – All about: Content Management
05-25 – All About: Open Source
05-25 – IT Analysis In A Cold Climate
05-25 – All About: Component Provisioning
05-26 – Thought for the day
05-26 – Wireless in Toronto
05-26 – Making IT Matter
05-26 – I shall say this only once
05-27 – 770’s, OQO’s, batteries and voice
05-28 – Terse...
05-28 – Let the puns begin…
05-30 – Sudoku
05-30 – Community Services
05-31 – Voicing a concern
05-31 – I feel slightly sick...
June
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06-01 – Video module for Skype
06-01 – If you haven’t heard of Google Maps yet…
06-02 – Silicon: DRM in business
06-08 – Alphadoku
06-08 – First Phish
06-08 – Paris - Presentations and Pavements
06-08 – On production
06-10 – Linked Out
06-13 – Indebted
06-16 – Shop of the present
06-23 – The mail must get through
06-23 – Frisson
September
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09-19 – Today I shall mostly be?
09-24 – Seven Lessons from London
October
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10-03 – Rush - Chemistry available for pre-order
10-11 – Audioscrobbler
10-11 – Comments issues
10-18 – New version of N E O now out
November
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11-03 – Chemistry is out
11-05 – What is the music industry, anyway?
11-07 – Qualcomm and SCO
11-08 – Self-important, exhibitionist geeks
11-21 – Duping Google
2006
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January
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01-11 – A new dawn, a new day...
01-18 – The VaioPad - it works!
01-18 – The VaioPad - Pictures
01-26 – The Bells
01-28 – Alphadoku Solution
February
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02-01 – Hooking up with MWD
02-06 – Nobody Likes Feedback
02-08 – Avecho - what did I miss?
02-08 – Rush Addendum updated
02-08 – On Googleseep and Netabuse
02-10 – View from the chair
02-10 – The people's front of WOMM
02-10 – The IT brain drain?
02-13 – What does Hormel think about spam?
02-19 – Any Eastenders fans out there?
02-19 – If this post appears…
02-19 – Nothing to declare
02-19 – Got me foxed
02-20 – SC101 Network Storage Device
02-20 – Doing no evil
02-20 – Horses for Courses - Myspace and Music
02-21 – More on briefing analysts
02-21 – Its all going to go horribly wrong
02-22 – Getting engaged - to a blog
02-24 – Thought for the day...
02-24 – Ego Sum
02-25 – Thought for the day
02-26 – Mobility = Ubiquity
02-27 – What’s an IT analyst, anyway?
March
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03-01 – Thought for the day
03-01 – The laws of connectedness
03-02 – Thought for the day
03-03 – Re: Innovation in the UK and Europe
03-03 – To Ecademy or not to Ecademy?
03-03 – My-name-is-J-o-n
03-06 – Register for UK transplant
03-07 – Is this what radio's all about?
03-07 – Today I shall mostly be...
03-07 – Video is its own killer app
03-09 – Thought for the day...
03-09 – Playing with words
03-09 – When did blogs tip?
03-10 – Hors l’anglophonie
03-11 – Update to Marillion book
03-27 – Thought for the day...
03-30 – Guys in the bar - New Yorkers and analysts
April
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04-04 – Towards free wireless?
04-08 – Microsoft Vista and new horizons
04-11 – The last yard
04-12 – Voice on PDA: close, but no cigar
04-13 – What goes around... Freecycle
04-13 – Latest tool from last.fm
04-13 – PR 2.0
04-18 – A printing service, not a book
04-18 – Online gaming as a social experiment
04-18 – Freaky
04-19 – Testing the Qumana blog editor
04-20 – I now have a Russian email address
04-20 – Spam in Russian
04-22 – del.icio.us on Wordpress, anyone?
04-26 – The latest in anti-navel gazing technology
04-27 – Today I am mostly playing with…
04-27 – This flight's been too long
04-27 – Port forwarding
04-28 – Marillion on the box
04-28 – Something for the weekend, phperhaps
04-28 – Analysts and alcopops
May
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05-03 – QTek 9100 - the perfect handheld?
05-04 – How to make a John Collins
05-08 – My take on blogging
05-08 – Detheming and reframing
05-10 – Symptoms of Oblivion
05-12 – The first life is currently preferable
05-25 – Hols
June
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06-05 – Sympathy is what we need?
July
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07-07 – Thought for the day
07-29 – Isn't it scary...
August
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08-04 – A Tale of Two Horses
September
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09-21 – Looks like I missed a good debate
09-21 – Does anyone recognise themselves in this?
09-21 – Eucon say that again
09-21 – Determinedly blogging
09-23 – This morning I will mostly be running…
09-24 – Claude Nouveau for all your wine needs
09-25 – On switching content with networks, and great sleep cures
09-26 – FrieNDA
09-30 – Porcupine Tree at the Astoria 29/09/06
09-30 – Today I shall mostly be...
October
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10-01 – Cotswolds to Capetown
10-03 – IT people - have you subscribed yet?
10-03 – H at Riffs Bar 01/10/2006
10-03 – Just back from
10-04 – Stylus styloss
10-04 – Maybe this is why I'm so messed up
10-06 – Desert Island Discs
10-10 – Dirty little analyst secrets
10-11 – Too many cool things
10-12 – Blogger goes multilingual
10-13 – Performancing fixes
10-13 – Intrepid bikers on Fanta
10-13 – History of Guns in WGC tonight
10-16 – Any SD Card computer Geeks Out There?
10-16 – The demise of blogging
10-17 – Master of None at the Sundial Theatre Cirencester, 14 October 2006
10-17 – FUDCO - for all your corn needs
10-18 – Anyone going to Storage Expo?
10-18 – The Matrix Revisited
10-18 – Mick Wall has a blog
10-18 – CIO P2P
10-20 – Second Sun
10-20 – The best conference giveaway ever
10-21 – Comment apologies
10-23 – Keane at the Wolverhampton Civic, 22/10/06
10-23 – Ben Folds in Second Life
10-26 – Why I like Zoundry
10-26 – Torchwood and Cardiff
10-30 – Comments are go...
10-30 – Reviewed you Spam settings recently?
10-31 – Online backup solutions
November
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11-02 – Layering the blogosphere
11-02 – First word about the Microsoft-Novell partnership
11-03 – The music industry is f*cked - Peter Jenner
11-06 – Jo McCafferty, Cheltenham, 04/11/2006
11-07 – Nice graph
11-09 – Something to Declare
11-09 – Life 2.0 and Pixie Boots
11-13 – Hotel wireless: nice when it works
11-15 – What a palaver! On rubber balls, customer service and spam
11-17 – Life's (not) a long song
11-17 – Things I should have patented #335
11-17 – And this week's word is... Skullet
11-17 – A brief history of Coates
11-20 – Next year’s must-have gadget: Samsung SPH-P9000
11-22 – That was short - and to the point
11-28 – What a nice man - Mike Oldfield's Changeling
December
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12-04 – It's not your computer
12-08 – 'You put them in the bin, Mr Collins'
12-08 – Maintenance, innovation and half-baked pies
2007
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January
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01-21 – Happy New Year!
01-23 – Just back from the Architects Council
February
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02-03 – Script for a Jester's Tear, Riffs Bar, 27/01/2006
02-03 – Get a first life
02-05 – Start 'em young
02-10 – Marillion - Port Zelande, Netherlands, 02/02/2007
March
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03-28 – What characterises a service?
April
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04-04 – Rush - Chemistry now available in German
June
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06-30 – Phew! What an upgrade!
July
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07-05 – Not quite a job
07-06 – Test Post from Live Writer
07-08 – The Grossest thing I have ever done...
07-12 – InstantRails in Vista Ultimate
07-12 – What’s wrong with being pro-Gartner anyway?
07-12 – Hotel top tips #182 - working a mixer shower
07-15 – Taste Test: Cotswold 3-8 vs Summer Breeze
07-16 – Artists as Businesspeople? Whatever Next
August
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08-29 – The downside of open communities?
September
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09-16 – Deeper meanings?
09-18 – This morning I shall mostly be...
09-20 – Circular arguments on Analysts from the Fool
09-20 – Not so massive
09-20 – 'This is a business line...'
October
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10-03 – First impressions of Mumbai
10-05 – An Email Day
10-05 – Clubbing - the LinkedIn way
10-06 – Second thoughts about Mumbai
10-08 – Off to IASA
10-08 – From Alphadoku to Alignment
10-08 – Mobile experiences from Mumbai
10-10 – EMC buys Mozy - should we all be doing online backups now?
10-10 – reCaptcha - Real text verification
10-10 – SAP blots out Business Objects
10-10 – Rush - Wembley Arena 10/10/2007
10-10 – The ITIL Placebo Process Effect
10-11 – Total Immersion - My New Work Blog
10-11 – Information Management - three sides or three mountains?
10-11 – Things I miss about UNIX
10-15 – Descending on Documation, Schmoozing at Storage Expo
10-15 – Silicon Agenda Setters - the results are out
10-15 – OK, I can't spell 'the'
10-16 – Sleepwalking Towards the Last Post
10-16 – My First Video Briefing
10-16 – Eucon Dance if You Want To
10-17 – Day 1 of Storage Expo
10-18 – HELLO! I'M ON THE PLANE!
10-18 – Nostalgic? Try Mobile
10-18 – Day 2 at Storage Expo - Greening Up the Act
10-19 – A not particularly exhaustive Twitter client study
10-19 – Whoa! How Green are We!
10-20 – What a way to start RSA - with a virus
10-24 – This message is so wrong in so many ways
10-24 – Shoulder standing 101: being influenced by the influencees
10-24 – Sun vs NetApp - Good Hippies Don't Divorce, Do They?
10-25 – Twitter's just a big chat, right?
10-26 – Lighthouse stories
10-26 – Pulling a blog up by its bootstraps
10-26 – The bigger picture of behavioral analysis - a conversation with Tier-3
10-26 – Why I like phone briefings
10-26 – The Wii Has Landed
10-28 – Working through the book pile
November
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11-01 – BT skates its way to transformation
11-02 – Oh My God! They Killed Music DRM!
11-05 – Well-meaning, harmless drudge...
11-06 – IT Security Analyst Forum (a.k.a. Hey Mum I'm on the telly)
11-07 – Playing on trains - testing the Eurostar Terminal
11-07 – Writing Lessons from Ron James
11-07 – More washing of dirty linen in blog public
11-19 – Why I've replaced Vista with Linux
11-21 – What's in the (Linux) box
December
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12-01 – Has it been a week with Ubuntu already?
12-11 – World Community Grid - virtual edition?
12-11 – There's something about having enough disk... for a while
12-12 – Kindle - powered by Linux
12-12 – Can software developers be protected from themselves?
12-12 – Rethinking social networking in 2008
2008
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January
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01-04 – Why 2008 for enterprise identity management?
01-14 – Happy New Year!
01-14 – Goodbye dual boot, hello virtualisation
01-14 – Never trust a man in a shell suit
01-15 – Lessons from the photo pro
01-16 – Bringing wireless networks into the management fold
01-17 – Road testing the Palm Treo 500v
01-17 – Flock rocks - and Microsoft is not going to take over the world. Deal with it.
01-18 – Talking storage at Storage Expo
01-30 – Introducing the Buzz: assessing IT vendor mindshare
February
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02-07 – On the influence, independence and impact of IT analysts
02-07 – On police paperwork and technology promise
02-11 – Quick take: P2P document sharing between platforms
02-13 – Sun buys VirtualBox.
02-14 – Why another blog?
02-14 – Drupal 6.0 is out
02-14 – You came all the way down here, just to do this?
02-14 – In praise of voice recognition, with all the caveats.
02-14 – Martin Brampton and Mambo
02-14 – What's all this guff about talent management?
02-14 – Avoiding motherhood and apple pie
02-15 – How was your week?
02-15 – The OQO is here #2. Phooey.
02-15 – Declarative living and disclosure
02-15 – Robin's must-read AR series
02-16 – YouTube fame from the Cisco analyst event
02-17 – Typed from the OQO
02-17 – This is a dictated posting
02-18 – Can Power over Ethernet make networks greener?
02-20 – Should we be using computers to heat our own houses?
02-20 – Twits and Faces
02-21 – On press releases and ambulance chasing
02-21 – Quick take - Microsoft releases binary document formats under OSP
02-22 – Xobni, like Flock, also rocks
02-24 – The great keyboard bake-off – Bluetooth versus Infrared
02-24 – Geeking out: testing portable keyboards
02-28 – Goodness gracious!
02-29 – Presenting on Governance in Virtual Worlds
02-29 – Blogging straight in at the long tail
02-29 – 10 things I like about the OQO Ultra Mobile PC (and a few I don't)
March
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03-03 – Going back to a dual boot PC
03-04 – Computers that just work...
03-04 – Will Hillary divorce Bill soon?
03-04 – Who has time to blog?
03-09 – Pitching at briefings, and the evolving analyst space
03-10 – Just registered for Vollee
April
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04-04 – Microsoft Bloat, Green and the Vista opportunity
May
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05-08 – Farewell, Sean Body
June
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06-02 – IIAR Analyst Survey and other musings
06-02 – Ben's Big Madagascan Adventure
06-08 – IP Address Management - a latent need, not a market bandwagon
06-09 – 'That's not a product, that's a business strategy'
06-09 – Anyone know what this is about?
06-10 – Master Process Management? Now, there's a thought.
06-13 – IBM: SOA Far, SOA Good?
06-25 – Presentations and events update
July
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07-17 – Three's a crowd, so what's four?
07-17 – RSA Panel session confirmed
07-17 – Why I'm interested in Open Source
07-19 – Totally non work related - running for charity
07-19 – Blatantly looking for sponsorship
07-24 – Running round San Jose
October
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10-20 – Royal Parks Run - done!
10-28 – Dome run
10-28 – Testing out the podcast thang
10-30 – Social existentialism, and the Yourdon-Fry effect
November
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11-01 – A bit of a re-org
11-01 – That's that done, then
11-01 – Closing in
11-05 – Lack of problem solving at schools? I think not.
11-06 – Today, I shall mostly be...
11-19 – Leaving Las Vegas... and not for the last time
11-19 – On Jacuzzis and Peer Programming
December
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12-01 – News from the world of work
12-11 – Thinking Outside the Bowl - Storage Expo 2005
12-29 – That was painless-ish
2009
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January
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01-26 – Crossing the Agile Development experts
February
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02-05 – Recipe for improving operational IT – take two-thirds best practice, one-third tools
02-06 – His mother's genes
02-07 – Snow Day 2: Igloo crazy!
02-24 – Shorts: the Zune as a cautionary tale for Microsoft interoperability
March
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03-07 – Cloud computing - myth or reality?
03-09 – Pizza Burn
03-31 – Anyone know what this is?
April
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04-16 – Why Sun Microsystems makes me angry
04-16 – Virtualisation - The State of Play
04-16 – Reading The Big Switch #1 - the economist's world view
04-23 – Dear Mr/Mme Car Park Manager
May
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05-08 – Quick take: Will Borland find a good home with Microfocus?
June
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06-01 – Virtualisation and security - the two-edged sword
06-01 – Around the lake
September
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09-09 – European analyst of the year
October
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10-06 – The Bathtub Curve and other over-simplistic ideas
10-08 – The Bathtub Curve and other over-simplistic ideas
10-12 – Chemistry in paperback
10-19 – Losing a device - what's the big deal?
November
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11-11 – Towards dynamic systems management methodologies
11-18 – Infrastructure convergence - the two sides of the coin
December
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12-21 – Looking back... and forward
12-30 – Adobe Bridge CS3 not responding?
2010
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January
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01-21 – Quick take: top ten worst passwords
01-28 – Brighton Marathon
01-28 – Thinking aloud about Fair Trade chocolate and Kraft
February
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02-11 – What personality is your IT department?
March
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03-24 – A bit of whimsy - Beyond the Seaweed Farm
April
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04-18 – Brighton marathon - oh my goodness!
May
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05-07 – IT looking forward
05-12 – Looking back: Software is Art?
05-13 – Dear Colin McCaffrey, I hope you enjoy the dime
05-20 – How much 'innovation' is just keeping up appearances?
June
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06-07 – Conference keynotes, and the gulf between simple and complex
September
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09-06 – The great cloud joke
October
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10-08 – Onward and upward
10-24 – Rush-Chemistry now available in paperback
November
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11-01 – Running the eBook gauntlet
11-05 – Epilogue to Suburbia eBook and Audiobook
11-06 – Non, merci!
December
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12-08 – Reading up on VR Spheres
12-13 – Print on demand an unqualified success
12-13 – Virtual worlds redux
2011
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January
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01-26 – Found in a field - a piece of pot
February
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02-04 – Jack Crymes RIP
02-21 – The day that Apple died
02-21 – Quick music industry (on the take) take
March
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03-25 – It all began with the bright lights…
April
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04-09 – Unusual Suspects
May
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05-24 – Should we trust the (social) network?
05-24 – Gary McKinnon and the next 24 hours
05-28 – Mugs arrive Tuesday - get your orders in now!
June
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06-08 – Apple iTunes Match and the law of unintended consequences
06-14 – Reflections on Still Canal Waters - Summer Garden Party 2011
06-20 – Of no interest to anyone whatsoever
06-30 – The future of the publishing industry?
July
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07-15 – A Million Tiny Gestures
07-19 – It's just a theory... gurus and mid-life crises
August
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08-22 – Reminder to self: this is the information revolution
September
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09-02 – Helping a friend: software delivery check list
09-11 – Talking crap is not a crime
09-23 – Herding the article cats - a five minute work flow
09-26 – Twitter link scams grow in complexity?
09-26 – Social blood donation
09-30 – I, Technology: Can you turn your back on the Web?
October
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10-06 – Brief thoughts on Steve Jobs
10-12 – I, Technology: 7 reasons why schools need 3D printers
10-13 – My Boris Bike questions
10-17 – Tech.Maven: Stand by while we augment your reality
10-17 – Tech.Maven: Are companies supposed to be social?
10-17 – I, Technology: Older generations need innovation, not just internet
10-17 – Cloud Society: Will the consumer cloud finally have its day?
10-19 – Tech.Maven: Closing the gap between business and IT
10-27 – I, Technology: Can I be the first to say the 'social network' is dead?
November
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11-04 – I, Technology: Just how much privacy are we prepared to give up?
11-08 – Solid state storage now running at a pound a Gig
11-14 – Tech.Maven: What if CIO's shouldn't have a place on the board?
11-15 – UK SME Agenda: Too big to succeed?
December
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12-02 – Inition and the shape of things to come
12-07 – So what is it you do, precisely?
12-08 – Targeted ad serving may not breach privacy laws, but it's bloody annoying
2012
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January
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01-10 – The Kernel: A home fit for start-ups
01-10 – Open data: not an open, nor shut case
01-17 – I, Technology: Is using computers to heat houses such a daft idea?
01-18 – 87 days to go...
March
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03-02 – The Facebook IPO, and where it takes us
03-08 – Public Technology: CloudStore is only the start of needed procurement reforms
April
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04-04 – The Kernel: The day the music died
04-16 – Race report: the Paris Marathon
04-18 – The Kernel: London Book Fair
04-24 – Cleaning lady’s response to Werner Herzog
04-26 – Another one bites the dust - Roadrunner Records
May
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05-21 – Why aren't you passionate about open standards?
June
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06-22 – I, Technology: Surface and Voice – a marriage made in geek heaven?
July
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07-16 – The Kernel: Fresh fields and pastures new?
07-29 – RIP Claus Egge
August
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08-24 – Sleeping rough, but not in that way
September
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09-14 – Update to Separated Out
09-30 – My Desert Island Dozen
October
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10-05 – A Passage To India
November
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11-07 – Feedback to a budget hotel owner
11-22 – I, Technology: When is a spy-pen not a spy-pen? Don't expect a politician to know
December
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12-12 – A new kind of loyalty card
12-13 – Marillion / Separated Out - Redux
2013
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January
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01-03 – Superdry - a non-technological success story
01-16 – What does “sustainable income” mean for authors?
01-27 – An Origami mobile phone / smartphone stand
September
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09-16 – Reasons why I may have just unfollowed (or followed) you
October
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10-03 – Another Morning
December
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12-13 – Isn't a Rush-Chemistry paperback the perfect Christmas present?
12-31 – Happy New Year! And Baking.
2014
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February
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02-23 – Making Big Big Bread
August
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08-12 – The Pit
2015
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August
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08-05 – How to choose wine
08-16 – Big Big Train, Kings Place 15 August 2015
08-21 – The nature of connectedness
08-21 – Toot
October
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10-20 – What’s a blockchain? And is it heading for prime time?
November
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11-10 – Medium: Athens Marathon and the elusive sub-four
11-15 – Evil is real
11-17 – We are road kill
11-24 – We are less and less in this together
December
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12-08 – On writing Rush-Chemistry, and Egg Nog Gate
12-11 – Twitter map of the world - follower projection
2016
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January
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01-05 – Social media owners need to stop running uncontrolled playgrounds
01-07 – I have seen the future, and it doesn’t mention Uber
February
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02-12 – Hipsterism isn’t a fashion, it’s a reaction...
02-23 – My big TV moment - Tetbury Woolsack and Record Breakers
May
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05-25 – Ode to W H Smith
June
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06-06 – On Brexit, elephants and pythons: it’s a jungle out there
October
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10-28 – My first ever information management strategy
November
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11-04 – On “monetisation of data” and other phrases that should be banned
11-16 – How to be smart in a post-truth world
December
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12-08 – Dave and Dave, and Dave, and Alexis, and other tales of AWS serendipity
2017
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October
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10-25 – A New Page
10-26 – Ripples in the Pool
10-31 – Escalator Stories
November
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11-15 – There's a Spider in the Kitchen
11-22 – A New Start
2018
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January
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01-05 – January 5 2018. The Yin and Yang of Innovation and Governance
01-05 – January 5 2018. The Yin and Yang of Innovation and Governance
01-12 – January 12 2018. Digital transformation - when specificity becomes too specific
February
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02-27 – Here it comes
2019
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March
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03-05 – Putting on the oxygen mask
April
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04-10 – Hey LinkedIn, bear with me on this...
October
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10-23 – Travel Forward 2019: Let's do this
10-23 – How not to run a sub-four marathon
10-23 – Updating site
10-23 – How I Write Reports
10-24 – Dystopian Dreams
10-25 – Retrospective thoughts on Smart Shift
10-31 – Afterthoughts
10-31 – We go to the end
November
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11-01 – The Silences
11-07 – Snippet
11-22 – Time is a mirror
December
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12-09 – Prologue
2020
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February
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02-26 – Write about what you know, they said
May
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05-05 – A Recipe for Wholemeal Sourdough Bread. With Notes.
2021
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June
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06-17 – The Records
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