1. Welcome
  2. Cheshire Cat (Bloor Research)
    ❱
    1. 1999
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      1. April
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        1. 04-01 – Government launches IT White Paper
        2. 04-01 – Open Goal for Microsoft
        3. 04-01 – IT-Director.com launched by Bloor Research, Certus and Silicon News
        4. 04-09 – The Art Of War
        5. 04-09 – ISAs and Legacy Systems
        6. 04-12 – Sailing the Shifting Sands of Silicon
        7. 04-12 – Global Village Voice
        8. 04-14 – Applications - Rent or Buy?
        9. 04-14 – Internet Value – Business Sense
        10. 04-14 – Linux - Immature but happening anyway
        11. 04-16 – The Sun is Shining Again
        12. 04-16 – For Banking, the Future is Online
        13. 04-22 – The hidden cost of Internet Real Estate
        14. 04-22 – Turbulent times for IT stocks
        15. 04-22 – Quantity is not the only answer.
        16. 04-26 – Coming soon to your screens ….
        17. 04-26 – Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam
        18. 04-27 – Signs of Internet Immaturity
        19. 04-27 – IT Security doesn’t have to be Rocket Science
        20. 04-27 – Network Computing has its place
      2. May
        ❱
        1. 05-04 – ECommerce Crisis
        2. 05-10 – The demise of the call centre
        3. 05-10 – Agnostic to what’s in the box
        4. 05-10 – IT Infrastructure for free
        5. 05-11 – A Safety Basis for Y2K
        6. 05-11 – Time is running out for Iridium
        7. 05-11 – Arranged Marriages to rule eSpace
        8. 05-12 – Gigabit over copper? Never say never!
        9. 05-12 – Linux on trial
        10. 05-13 – £50M for NHS IT – Plan wisely, spend wisely
        11. 05-13 – See the future – read my palm
        12. 05-13 – Cable, digital, set top box. Cable, digital, set top box
        13. 05-14 – New laws for the online community
        14. 05-14 – Adrenalin keeping the online hermits going
        15. 05-14 – Microsoft Open Source is missing the point
        16. 05-28 – IBM goes in Deep
        17. 05-28 – Bizness as usual for Microsoft
        18. 05-28 – TANSTAAFL, but we'll throw in the starter
      3. June
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        1. 06-07 – Baan’s battles not over yet
        2. 06-07 – The science of appliances
        3. 06-07 – Microsoft at the Perly Gates
        4. 06-09 – Office 2000 is out – but is it in?
        5. 06-09 – Amazon’s laws of the Jungle
        6. 06-09 – Information Overload is a Distraction
        7. 06-12 – The Internet is going, to Worms that is
        8. 06-12 – Commerce Electronique? Ja, bitte!
        9. 06-12 – Sony gets Music Shops Online
      4. July
        ❱
        1. 07-01 – Linux fails at the OS Corrall. So What?
        2. 07-01 – The sad truth about ADSL
        3. 07-01 – More e-Baa than e-Business
        4. 07-04 – Local loop open for competition
        5. 07-04 – Yahoo bows to people pressure
        6. 07-04 – XML – the common language is half the battle
        7. 07-14 – CA SANITI illustrates the problem with management frameworks
        8. 07-14 – Jiro clarifies SUN’s open intentions
        9. 07-14 – IPV6 picks up momentum at last
        10. 07-16 – PC-on-chip spells end for consumer hardware costs
        11. 07-16 – 8i reasons to go Oracle
        12. 07-16 – Apache grows up – and up
        13. 07-31 – Thor poses Open Source threat to Windows 2000
        14. 07-31 – Sun's rising Star to catalyse device revolution
        15. 07-31 – Hotmail hacked, but who's to blame?
      5. September
        ❱
        1. 09-01 – OS vendors on the Merced starting grid
        2. 09-01 – Cisco keeps its focus with IBM deal
        3. 09-01 – Mac is back with new Pentium-killers
        4. 09-02 – System I/O fabric to transform computing architecture model
        5. 09-02 – Intel and IBM bring processing to the network
        6. 09-02 – Solaris tightens Merced screws on Microsoft
        7. 09-03 – Microsoft faces Hobson’s choice for W2K
        8. 09-03 – From Kidneys to Iridium shares – what will eBay auction next?
        9. 09-03 – Open Sky’s wireless PDA future leaves Microsoft out in the cold
        10. 09-08 – Mainframes lead resurgence in software tools
        11. 09-08 – Nor.Web left on the wayside of the superhighway
        12. 09-08 – NT Pragmatists strip Microsoft naked
        13. 09-08 – ISPs get tools to help SMEs compete in online economy
        14. 09-08 – Killer App for voice recognition – don’t hold your breath
        15. 09-08 – Is today the day the doomsayers have their picnic?
        16. 09-09 – Dell gets the Acquisition bug
        17. 09-09 – Transatlantic porn test case gets result – sort of
        18. 09-09 – Microsoft’s Cool shades preach Java doom
        19. 09-09 – Argos misses the decimal point
        20. 09-09 – Sega’s Dreamcast – millstone or milestone?
        21. 09-09 – Apple at the gates of dawn
        22. 09-10 – W2K gets first UK deployment
        23. 09-10 – AmEx builds Blue bridge over Web payment waters
        24. 09-10 – Waitrose ISP – now we are truly free
        25. 09-10 – 9-9-99 – Reasons to be cheerful, or not
        26. 09-10 – HP bring DVD+RW a step closer
        27. 09-21 – IT Directors – hold your heads high
        28. 09-21 – SNIA Comes to Europe
        29. 09-21 – Oracle, HP and Siegel – picking up the CRuMbs?
        30. 09-24 – Software pricing to plummet – is Linus Right?
        31. 09-24 – Free domain names – a quick thrill
        32. 09-28 – Ohh, James… is that a Jornada in your pocket?
        33. 09-28 – MCI-WorldCom – Sprint to a finish?
        34. 09-28 – MSN is open for discussion
      6. October
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        1. 10-11 – HandSpring will fuel device revolution
        2. 10-11 – MCI gets hands on Sprint
        3. 10-11 – eCommerce in the UK RPI – a final call to arms
        4. 10-12 – Moore’s Law not a barrier to progress
        5. 10-12 – Vendors poised to tear down the Broadband wall
        6. 10-12 – GTE launch carrier-class VoIP service
        7. 10-13 – Travelocity ups gear and merges with Preview Travel
        8. 10-13 – Y2K’s winter to freeze SMEs
        9. 10-13 – Linux and NT – The myths exposed
        10. 10-14 – ASP's – The Age of the Information Power Hub
        11. 10-14 – W2K no Y2K
        12. 10-14 – HP eases itself into NAS waters
        13. 10-15 – Dream is over for UK ISPs
        14. 10-15 – What’s in SUN’s sights next year? Microsoft, of course.
        15. 10-15 – Anyone for eTea?
        16. 10-25 – Sun sets up autonomous Forté, completes its Java portfolio
        17. 10-25 – ASPs – how IT can learn from the Comms guys
        18. 10-25 – Coppermine braces itself, without Rambus
        19. 10-26 – VDSL beats back Broadband bounds
        20. 10-26 – Orange dreaming of a WAP Christmas
        21. 10-26 – Loi 495 – allez le source ouvert!
        22. 10-27 – Future of UK Enigma site continues to confound
        23. 10-27 – Xerox’s 18-month European Plan
        24. 10-28 – Micromuse setting their sights high
        25. 10-28 – Thin server appliances drive OS shakeup
        26. 10-29 – UK Govt PC plans miss the mark
        27. 10-29 – Amazon grace under pressure
        28. 10-29 – Mobile gives Voice Recognition its killer app
      7. November
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        1. 11-22 – Silver Surfers fuel UK Net growth
        2. 11-22 – Real Time Linux to become a Reality
        3. 11-22 – DNA points to chasm in the law
        4. 11-23 – IP becomes carrier protocol of choice
        5. 11-23 – Chip development goes up a level or two
        6. 11-23 – Bluetooth is going not going to change the local networking landscape… yet
        7. 11-24 – Microsoft: the lighting of the long fuse
        8. 11-24 – Directory services lead Novell out of the mire
        9. 11-24 – Can Linux workstations change SGI’s fortunes?
        10. 11-25 – Compaq provides litmus test for OS debate
        11. 11-25 – Chip wars come to a head, just in time
        12. 11-25 – Zero cost IT – only...
      8. December
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        1. 12-07 – Nokia forges Europe’s mobile future, threatens the silicon boy wonders
        2. 12-07 – Where lies the future of Web advertising?
        3. 12-07 – Microsoft: Java comatose, W2K holds key to bypass operation
        4. 12-22 – Novell bets its future on ASPs
        5. 12-22 – 3Com – first the strategy, the rest will follow
        6. 12-22 – Y2K – believe us, we’d rather be wrong
    2. 2000
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-07 – Tokyo Joe suit starts the legal ball rolling
        2. 01-07 – AOL-TV brings forth embedded Linux – by stealth
        3. 01-25 – At Linus’ Transmeta, Crusoe finds its Friday
        4. 01-25 – Linux consortium brings new weight to embedded debate
        5. 01-25 – British Telecom – looped around a rock and a hard place
        6. 01-25 – Microsoft delays aspirations to be gatekeeper of the virtual enterprise
      2. February
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        1. 02-03 – Free-PC is dead! Long live the free PC
        2. 02-09 – Look at me, Mum! I killed eBay!
        3. 02-09 – EU W2K case puts cart before horse
        4. 02-09 – Java overtakes C++, takes number one development slot
        5. 02-14 – Microsoft gets back to its UNIX roots with Interix
        6. 02-14 – Lastminute.com provides an IPO acid test
        7. 02-14 – IBM strengthens ties with Rational but keeps the agnostic faith
        8. 02-16 – Transport and environmental groups stress real impacts of eCommerce
        9. 02-18 – Web travel companies on the back foot
        10. 02-18 – Microsoft Windows – the Gates left open
        11. 02-18 – PointCast – Did it fall, or was it…
        12. 02-23 – Alcatel joins the new generation networking crowd
        13. 02-28 – Ford, GM, Daimler put business at the helm of technology
        14. 02-28 – Do you Yahoo!? Go on Murdoch, you know you want to
      3. March
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        1. 03-03 – For Palm, it is just the beginning. For 3Com…
        2. 03-03 – Thomson Travel: there’s life in the old dog yet
        3. 03-03 – Cable, wireless and now the servers: C&W goes ASP
        4. 03-28 – Big Cis hits the top
        5. 03-28 – Online photo clubs – the killer app for SSPs
        6. 03-28 – Directory sky hook too late for Novell?
      4. April
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        1. 04-28 – Will USB become the system bus of the future?
        2. 04-28 – Sony goes Symbian: whence Palm?
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-01 – Microsoft – down, not out, but not in neither
        2. 05-01 – Phew! ISP’s found not liable for email content
        3. 05-05 – Tele2 – a niche wireless solution for the corporate masses
        4. 05-05 – We are all to blame for the I Love You virus
        5. 05-05 – Web users may be going up, but service quality is not
        6. 05-11 – G8 jaw, jaw, jaw about Cyberspace law
        7. 05-11 – Storage Networks - the storage space goes ASP
        8. 05-19 – Love and viruses: the upside of crying wolf
        9. 05-19 – Monterey on borrowed time
        10. 05-25 – Microsoft SOAP on the ROPEs
        11. 05-25 – From blue screens to screen blues for handheld manufacturers
        12. 05-25 – Is it time for a socially responsible Internet?
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-01 – Cybercafes reach the farmers of India
        2. 06-01 – SurfTime: BT drops the Beach Ball
        3. 06-01 – NetSanity brings one-stop publishing to the Web
        4. 06-07 – NEON’s iWave bridges the business process divide
        5. 06-07 – DOJ separates Windows from its reason
        6. 06-08 – Encryption: Should the RIP bill rest in peace?
        7. 06-14 – Cheer up, Lou – $2.1 Trillion should ease your pain
        8. 06-15 – Spam ban, thank you Ma’am
        9. 06-15 – Sun Storage: the future is bright, the future’s Purple
        10. 06-15 – Telecomms unbundling – watching the watchers
        11. 06-22 – Microsoft registers www.NewStrategy.NET
        12. 06-22 – IBM’s voice recognition grows up
        13. 06-28 – European tech investment rides the storm
        14. 06-30 – Ain’t the PC dead yet?
        15. 06-30 – Guess how Clinton signed the Digital Signature bill?
        16. 06-30 – Sun’s second thoughts about Open Source Solaris
      7. July
        ❱
        1. 07-06 – EC to Microsoft: We just don’t trust you
        2. 07-06 – Web service: still no cigar
        3. 07-06 – Oracle’s NC relaunch – Its not about winning, its about taking part
        4. 07-14 – Red Sun is rising on Linux
        5. 07-14 – MCI WorldCom and Sprint run into the sand
        6. 07-14 – Microsoft for rent
        7. 07-21 – eCommerce comes in from the cold
        8. 07-21 – Would mad cows use mobile phones?
        9. 07-21 – Unbundling on course, but so was the Titanic
        10. 07-31 – Napster movement goes underground, people responsible
        11. 07-31 – Microsoft Windows for free
        12. 07-31 – TANSTAA Free Internet Service
      8. August
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        1. 08-25 – CA shifts innovation from marketing to business strategy
      9. September
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        1. 09-01 – How many Open Source developers does it take…
        2. 09-01 – Marillion.com – turning the record industry on its head
        3. 09-08 – Sony - lies and on the take?
        4. 09-08 – XML – in, out, in, out
        5. 09-08 – mCommerce – less big bang, more whimper
      10. October
        ❱
        1. 10-11 – Geoworks WAP licensing – fast buck or insurance policy?
        2. 10-11 – Bluetooth PANs the Wireless LAN
  3. Nothing To Declare
    ❱
    1. 1996
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-19 – Breaking Out To Get In
    2. 1999
      ❱
      1. November
        ❱
        1. 11-17 – Nobody ever listens!
    3. 2003
      ❱
      1. May
        ❱
        1. 05-08 – Review: A solid, practical mug with a thoughtful, understated design.
        2. 05-30 – h's bar
        3. 05-30 – Earth to...
      2. June
        ❱
        1. 06-07 – BT and the art of customer service #1
        2. 06-10 – BT and the art of customer service #2
        3. 06-12 – Pamela's Book Launch
      3. July
        ❱
        1. 07-10 – Microsoft and tears
        2. 07-13 – Somewhere over the Atlantic
        3. 07-15 – Conference Urges
        4. 07-18 – Boston whales
        5. 07-18 – Opeth in Providence
        6. 07-19 – The Threadbare Carpet
        7. 07-31 – The Gazpacho and Green Glass Incident
      4. October
        ❱
        1. 10-01 – Weird Week
        2. 10-27 – Four Colours Solution?
    4. 2004
      ❱
      1. March
        ❱
        1. 03-07 – Now reading: Dead Air
        2. 03-18 – Stupid bloody, bloody trains
      2. April
        ❱
        1. 04-18 – Invisible Man
      3. May
        ❱
        1. 05-14 – You're gone...
      4. June
        ❱
        1. 06-04 – Walking the dog
      5. August
        ❱
        1. 08-05 – Sold on voice recognition
      6. October
        ❱
        1. 10-22 – Mobility is seasonal
        2. 10-22 – Wine
      7. November
        ❱
        1. 11-02 – New UK Rock Station
        2. 11-26 – Nasty Upgrades
    5. 2005
      ❱
      1. May
        ❱
        1. 05-24 – eConstructing: Life on Mars
        2. 05-24 – eConstructing: From Vitruvius to Zachmann
        3. 05-24 – Marillion Bass Museum 17 November 2000
        4. 05-24 – Cryptonomicron
        5. 05-24 – The Art of Heroic Failure
        6. 05-24 – eConstructing: Of Evolution and Revolution
        7. 05-24 – The revolution that never was
        8. 05-24 – Prochain Pipeline and the Theory of Constraints
        9. 05-24 – eConstructing: Darwin and Punk Eek
        10. 05-25 – All About: Wireless Networking
        11. 05-25 – All About: Web Services
        12. 05-25 – Porcupine Tree Boston 22 June 2002
        13. 05-25 – All About: Broadband Communications
        14. 05-25 – All About: Hosted Applications
        15. 05-25 – All About: eXtensible Markup Language, XML
        16. 05-25 – All About: Tech Resources
        17. 05-25 – All about: Content Management
        18. 05-25 – All About: Open Source
        19. 05-25 – IT Analysis In A Cold Climate
        20. 05-25 – All About: Component Provisioning
        21. 05-26 – Thought for the day
        22. 05-26 – Wireless in Toronto
        23. 05-26 – Making IT Matter
        24. 05-26 – I shall say this only once
        25. 05-27 – 770’s, OQO’s, batteries and voice
        26. 05-28 – Terse...
        27. 05-28 – Let the puns begin…
        28. 05-30 – Sudoku
        29. 05-30 – Community Services
        30. 05-31 – Voicing a concern
        31. 05-31 – I feel slightly sick...
      2. June
        ❱
        1. 06-01 – Video module for Skype
        2. 06-01 – If you haven’t heard of Google Maps yet…
        3. 06-02 – Silicon: DRM in business
        4. 06-08 – Alphadoku
        5. 06-08 – First Phish
        6. 06-08 – Paris - Presentations and Pavements
        7. 06-08 – On production
        8. 06-10 – Linked Out
        9. 06-13 – Indebted
        10. 06-16 – Shop of the present
        11. 06-23 – The mail must get through
        12. 06-23 – Frisson
      3. September
        ❱
        1. 09-19 – Today I shall mostly be?
        2. 09-24 – Seven Lessons from London
      4. October
        ❱
        1. 10-03 – Rush - Chemistry available for pre-order
        2. 10-11 – Audioscrobbler
        3. 10-11 – Comments issues
        4. 10-18 – New version of N E O now out
      5. November
        ❱
        1. 11-03 – Chemistry is out
        2. 11-05 – What is the music industry, anyway?
        3. 11-07 – Qualcomm and SCO
        4. 11-08 – Self-important, exhibitionist geeks
        5. 11-21 – Duping Google
    6. 2006
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-11 – A new dawn, a new day...
        2. 01-18 – The VaioPad - it works!
        3. 01-18 – The VaioPad - Pictures
        4. 01-26 – The Bells
        5. 01-28 – Alphadoku Solution
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-01 – Hooking up with MWD
        2. 02-06 – Nobody Likes Feedback
        3. 02-08 – Avecho - what did I miss?
        4. 02-08 – Rush Addendum updated
        5. 02-08 – On Googleseep and Netabuse
        6. 02-10 – View from the chair
        7. 02-10 – The people's front of WOMM
        8. 02-10 – The IT brain drain?
        9. 02-13 – What does Hormel think about spam?
        10. 02-19 – Any Eastenders fans out there?
        11. 02-19 – If this post appears…
        12. 02-19 – Nothing to declare
        13. 02-19 – Got me foxed
        14. 02-20 – SC101 Network Storage Device
        15. 02-20 – Doing no evil
        16. 02-20 – Horses for Courses - Myspace and Music
        17. 02-21 – More on briefing analysts
        18. 02-21 – Its all going to go horribly wrong
        19. 02-22 – Getting engaged - to a blog
        20. 02-24 – Thought for the day...
        21. 02-24 – Ego Sum
        22. 02-25 – Thought for the day
        23. 02-26 – Mobility = Ubiquity
        24. 02-27 – What’s an IT analyst, anyway?
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-01 – Thought for the day
        2. 03-01 – The laws of connectedness
        3. 03-02 – Thought for the day
        4. 03-03 – Re: Innovation in the UK and Europe
        5. 03-03 – To Ecademy or not to Ecademy?
        6. 03-03 – My-name-is-J-o-n
        7. 03-06 – Register for UK transplant
        8. 03-07 – Is this what radio's all about?
        9. 03-07 – Today I shall mostly be...
        10. 03-07 – Video is its own killer app
        11. 03-09 – Thought for the day...
        12. 03-09 – Playing with words
        13. 03-09 – When did blogs tip?
        14. 03-10 – Hors l’anglophonie
        15. 03-11 – Update to Marillion book
        16. 03-27 – Thought for the day...
        17. 03-30 – Guys in the bar - New Yorkers and analysts
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-04 – Towards free wireless?
        2. 04-08 – Microsoft Vista and new horizons
        3. 04-11 – The last yard
        4. 04-12 – Voice on PDA: close, but no cigar
        5. 04-13 – What goes around... Freecycle
        6. 04-13 – Latest tool from last.fm
        7. 04-13 – PR 2.0
        8. 04-18 – A printing service, not a book
        9. 04-18 – Online gaming as a social experiment
        10. 04-18 – Freaky
        11. 04-19 – Testing the Qumana blog editor
        12. 04-20 – I now have a Russian email address
        13. 04-20 – Spam in Russian
        14. 04-22 – del.icio.us on Wordpress, anyone?
        15. 04-26 – The latest in anti-navel gazing technology
        16. 04-27 – Today I am mostly playing with…
        17. 04-27 – This flight's been too long
        18. 04-27 – Port forwarding
        19. 04-28 – Marillion on the box
        20. 04-28 – Something for the weekend, phperhaps
        21. 04-28 – Analysts and alcopops
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-03 – QTek 9100 - the perfect handheld?
        2. 05-04 – How to make a John Collins
        3. 05-08 – My take on blogging
        4. 05-08 – Detheming and reframing
        5. 05-10 – Symptoms of Oblivion
        6. 05-12 – The first life is currently preferable
        7. 05-25 – Hols
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-05 – Sympathy is what we need?
      7. July
        ❱
        1. 07-07 – Thought for the day
        2. 07-29 – Isn't it scary...
      8. August
        ❱
        1. 08-04 – A Tale of Two Horses
      9. September
        ❱
        1. 09-21 – Looks like I missed a good debate
        2. 09-21 – Does anyone recognise themselves in this?
        3. 09-21 – Eucon say that again
        4. 09-21 – Determinedly blogging
        5. 09-23 – This morning I will mostly be running…
        6. 09-24 – Claude Nouveau for all your wine needs
        7. 09-25 – On switching content with networks, and great sleep cures
        8. 09-26 – FrieNDA
        9. 09-30 – Porcupine Tree at the Astoria 29/09/06
        10. 09-30 – Today I shall mostly be...
      10. October
        ❱
        1. 10-01 – Cotswolds to Capetown
        2. 10-03 – IT people - have you subscribed yet?
        3. 10-03 – H at Riffs Bar 01/10/2006
        4. 10-03 – Just back from
        5. 10-04 – Stylus styloss
        6. 10-04 – Maybe this is why I'm so messed up
        7. 10-06 – Desert Island Discs
        8. 10-10 – Dirty little analyst secrets
        9. 10-11 – Too many cool things
        10. 10-12 – Blogger goes multilingual
        11. 10-13 – Performancing fixes
        12. 10-13 – Intrepid bikers on Fanta
        13. 10-13 – History of Guns in WGC tonight
        14. 10-16 – Any SD Card computer Geeks Out There?
        15. 10-16 – The demise of blogging
        16. 10-17 – Master of None at the Sundial Theatre Cirencester, 14 October 2006
        17. 10-17 – FUDCO - for all your corn needs
        18. 10-18 – Anyone going to Storage Expo?
        19. 10-18 – The Matrix Revisited
        20. 10-18 – Mick Wall has a blog
        21. 10-18 – CIO P2P
        22. 10-20 – Second Sun
        23. 10-20 – The best conference giveaway ever
        24. 10-21 – Comment apologies
        25. 10-23 – Keane at the Wolverhampton Civic, 22/10/06
        26. 10-23 – Ben Folds in Second Life
        27. 10-26 – Why I like Zoundry
        28. 10-26 – Torchwood and Cardiff
        29. 10-30 – Comments are go...
        30. 10-30 – Reviewed you Spam settings recently?
        31. 10-31 – Online backup solutions
      11. November
        ❱
        1. 11-02 – Layering the blogosphere
        2. 11-02 – First word about the Microsoft-Novell partnership
        3. 11-03 – The music industry is f*cked - Peter Jenner
        4. 11-06 – Jo McCafferty, Cheltenham, 04/11/2006
        5. 11-07 – Nice graph
        6. 11-09 – Something to Declare
        7. 11-09 – Life 2.0 and Pixie Boots
        8. 11-13 – Hotel wireless: nice when it works
        9. 11-15 – What a palaver! On rubber balls, customer service and spam
        10. 11-17 – Life's (not) a long song
        11. 11-17 – Things I should have patented #335
        12. 11-17 – And this week's word is... Skullet
        13. 11-17 – A brief history of Coates
        14. 11-20 – Next year’s must-have gadget: Samsung SPH-P9000
        15. 11-22 – That was short - and to the point
        16. 11-28 – What a nice man - Mike Oldfield's Changeling
      12. December
        ❱
        1. 12-04 – It's not your computer
        2. 12-08 – 'You put them in the bin, Mr Collins'
        3. 12-08 – Maintenance, innovation and half-baked pies
    7. 2007
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-21 – Happy New Year!
        2. 01-23 – Just back from the Architects Council
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-03 – Script for a Jester's Tear, Riffs Bar, 27/01/2006
        2. 02-03 – Get a first life
        3. 02-05 – Start 'em young
        4. 02-10 – Marillion - Port Zelande, Netherlands, 02/02/2007
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-28 – What characterises a service?
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-04 – Rush - Chemistry now available in German
      5. June
        ❱
        1. 06-30 – Phew! What an upgrade!
      6. July
        ❱
        1. 07-05 – Not quite a job
        2. 07-06 – Test Post from Live Writer
        3. 07-08 – The Grossest thing I have ever done...
        4. 07-12 – InstantRails in Vista Ultimate
        5. 07-12 – What’s wrong with being pro-Gartner anyway?
        6. 07-12 – Hotel top tips #182 - working a mixer shower
        7. 07-15 – Taste Test: Cotswold 3-8 vs Summer Breeze
        8. 07-16 – Artists as Businesspeople? Whatever Next
      7. August
        ❱
        1. 08-29 – The downside of open communities?
      8. September
        ❱
        1. 09-16 – Deeper meanings?
        2. 09-18 – This morning I shall mostly be...
        3. 09-20 – Circular arguments on Analysts from the Fool
        4. 09-20 – Not so massive
        5. 09-20 – 'This is a business line...'
      9. October
        ❱
        1. 10-03 – First impressions of Mumbai
        2. 10-05 – An Email Day
        3. 10-05 – Clubbing - the LinkedIn way
        4. 10-06 – Second thoughts about Mumbai
        5. 10-08 – Off to IASA
        6. 10-08 – From Alphadoku to Alignment
        7. 10-08 – Mobile experiences from Mumbai
        8. 10-10 – EMC buys Mozy - should we all be doing online backups now?
        9. 10-10 – reCaptcha - Real text verification
        10. 10-10 – SAP blots out Business Objects
        11. 10-10 – Rush - Wembley Arena 10/10/2007
        12. 10-10 – The ITIL Placebo Process Effect
        13. 10-11 – Total Immersion - My New Work Blog
        14. 10-11 – Information Management - three sides or three mountains?
        15. 10-11 – Things I miss about UNIX
        16. 10-15 – Descending on Documation, Schmoozing at Storage Expo
        17. 10-15 – Silicon Agenda Setters - the results are out
        18. 10-15 – OK, I can't spell 'the'
        19. 10-16 – Sleepwalking Towards the Last Post
        20. 10-16 – My First Video Briefing
        21. 10-16 – Eucon Dance if You Want To
        22. 10-17 – Day 1 of Storage Expo
        23. 10-18 – HELLO! I'M ON THE PLANE!
        24. 10-18 – Nostalgic? Try Mobile
        25. 10-18 – Day 2 at Storage Expo - Greening Up the Act
        26. 10-19 – A not particularly exhaustive Twitter client study
        27. 10-19 – Whoa! How Green are We!
        28. 10-20 – What a way to start RSA - with a virus
        29. 10-24 – This message is so wrong in so many ways
        30. 10-24 – Shoulder standing 101: being influenced by the influencees
        31. 10-24 – Sun vs NetApp - Good Hippies Don't Divorce, Do They?
        32. 10-25 – Twitter's just a big chat, right?
        33. 10-26 – Lighthouse stories
        34. 10-26 – Pulling a blog up by its bootstraps
        35. 10-26 – The bigger picture of behavioral analysis - a conversation with Tier-3
        36. 10-26 – Why I like phone briefings
        37. 10-26 – The Wii Has Landed
        38. 10-28 – Working through the book pile
      10. November
        ❱
        1. 11-01 – BT skates its way to transformation
        2. 11-02 – Oh My God! They Killed Music DRM!
        3. 11-05 – Well-meaning, harmless drudge...
        4. 11-06 – IT Security Analyst Forum (a.k.a. Hey Mum I'm on the telly)
        5. 11-07 – Playing on trains - testing the Eurostar Terminal
        6. 11-07 – Writing Lessons from Ron James
        7. 11-07 – More washing of dirty linen in blog public
        8. 11-19 – Why I've replaced Vista with Linux
        9. 11-21 – What's in the (Linux) box
      11. December
        ❱
        1. 12-01 – Has it been a week with Ubuntu already?
        2. 12-11 – World Community Grid - virtual edition?
        3. 12-11 – There's something about having enough disk... for a while
        4. 12-12 – Kindle - powered by Linux
        5. 12-12 – Can software developers be protected from themselves?
        6. 12-12 – Rethinking social networking in 2008
    8. 2008
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-04 – Why 2008 for enterprise identity management?
        2. 01-14 – Happy New Year!
        3. 01-14 – Goodbye dual boot, hello virtualisation
        4. 01-14 – Never trust a man in a shell suit
        5. 01-15 – Lessons from the photo pro
        6. 01-16 – Bringing wireless networks into the management fold
        7. 01-17 – Road testing the Palm Treo 500v
        8. 01-17 – Flock rocks - and Microsoft is not going to take over the world. Deal with it.
        9. 01-18 – Talking storage at Storage Expo
        10. 01-30 – Introducing the Buzz: assessing IT vendor mindshare
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-07 – On the influence, independence and impact of IT analysts
        2. 02-07 – On police paperwork and technology promise
        3. 02-11 – Quick take: P2P document sharing between platforms
        4. 02-13 – Sun buys VirtualBox.
        5. 02-14 – Why another blog?
        6. 02-14 – Drupal 6.0 is out
        7. 02-14 – You came all the way down here, just to do this?
        8. 02-14 – In praise of voice recognition, with all the caveats.
        9. 02-14 – Martin Brampton and Mambo
        10. 02-14 – What's all this guff about talent management?
        11. 02-14 – Avoiding motherhood and apple pie
        12. 02-15 – How was your week?
        13. 02-15 – The OQO is here #2. Phooey.
        14. 02-15 – Declarative living and disclosure
        15. 02-15 – Robin's must-read AR series
        16. 02-16 – YouTube fame from the Cisco analyst event
        17. 02-17 – Typed from the OQO
        18. 02-17 – This is a dictated posting
        19. 02-18 – Can Power over Ethernet make networks greener?
        20. 02-20 – Should we be using computers to heat our own houses?
        21. 02-20 – Twits and Faces
        22. 02-21 – On press releases and ambulance chasing
        23. 02-21 – Quick take - Microsoft releases binary document formats under OSP
        24. 02-22 – Xobni, like Flock, also rocks
        25. 02-24 – The great keyboard bake-off – Bluetooth versus Infrared
        26. 02-24 – Geeking out: testing portable keyboards
        27. 02-28 – Goodness gracious!
        28. 02-29 – Presenting on Governance in Virtual Worlds
        29. 02-29 – Blogging straight in at the long tail
        30. 02-29 – 10 things I like about the OQO Ultra Mobile PC (and a few I don't)
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-03 – Going back to a dual boot PC
        2. 03-04 – Computers that just work...
        3. 03-04 – Will Hillary divorce Bill soon?
        4. 03-04 – Who has time to blog?
        5. 03-09 – Pitching at briefings, and the evolving analyst space
        6. 03-10 – Just registered for Vollee
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-04 – Microsoft Bloat, Green and the Vista opportunity
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-08 – Farewell, Sean Body
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-02 – IIAR Analyst Survey and other musings
        2. 06-02 – Ben's Big Madagascan Adventure
        3. 06-08 – IP Address Management - a latent need, not a market bandwagon
        4. 06-09 – 'That's not a product, that's a business strategy'
        5. 06-09 – Anyone know what this is about?
        6. 06-10 – Master Process Management? Now, there's a thought.
        7. 06-13 – IBM: SOA Far, SOA Good?
        8. 06-25 – Presentations and events update
      7. July
        ❱
        1. 07-17 – Three's a crowd, so what's four?
        2. 07-17 – RSA Panel session confirmed
        3. 07-17 – Why I'm interested in Open Source
        4. 07-19 – Totally non work related - running for charity
        5. 07-19 – Blatantly looking for sponsorship
        6. 07-24 – Running round San Jose
      8. October
        ❱
        1. 10-20 – Royal Parks Run - done!
        2. 10-28 – Dome run
        3. 10-28 – Testing out the podcast thang
        4. 10-30 – Social existentialism, and the Yourdon-Fry effect
      9. November
        ❱
        1. 11-01 – A bit of a re-org
        2. 11-01 – That's that done, then
        3. 11-01 – Closing in
        4. 11-05 – Lack of problem solving at schools? I think not.
        5. 11-06 – Today, I shall mostly be...
        6. 11-19 – Leaving Las Vegas... and not for the last time
        7. 11-19 – On Jacuzzis and Peer Programming
      10. December
        ❱
        1. 12-01 – News from the world of work
        2. 12-11 – Thinking Outside the Bowl - Storage Expo 2005
        3. 12-29 – That was painless-ish
    9. 2009
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-26 – Crossing the Agile Development experts
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-05 – Recipe for improving operational IT – take two-thirds best practice, one-third tools
        2. 02-06 – His mother's genes
        3. 02-07 – Snow Day 2: Igloo crazy!
        4. 02-24 – Shorts: the Zune as a cautionary tale for Microsoft interoperability
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-07 – Cloud computing - myth or reality?
        2. 03-09 – Pizza Burn
        3. 03-31 – Anyone know what this is?
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-16 – Why Sun Microsystems makes me angry
        2. 04-16 – Virtualisation - The State of Play
        3. 04-16 – Reading The Big Switch #1 - the economist's world view
        4. 04-23 – Dear Mr/Mme Car Park Manager
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-08 – Quick take: Will Borland find a good home with Microfocus?
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-01 – Virtualisation and security - the two-edged sword
        2. 06-01 – Around the lake
      7. September
        ❱
        1. 09-09 – European analyst of the year
      8. October
        ❱
        1. 10-06 – The Bathtub Curve and other over-simplistic ideas
        2. 10-08 – The Bathtub Curve and other over-simplistic ideas
        3. 10-12 – Chemistry in paperback
        4. 10-19 – Losing a device - what's the big deal?
      9. November
        ❱
        1. 11-11 – Towards dynamic systems management methodologies
        2. 11-18 – Infrastructure convergence - the two sides of the coin
      10. December
        ❱
        1. 12-21 – Looking back... and forward
        2. 12-30 – Adobe Bridge CS3 not responding?
    10. 2010
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-21 – Quick take: top ten worst passwords
        2. 01-28 – Brighton Marathon
        3. 01-28 – Thinking aloud about Fair Trade chocolate and Kraft
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-11 – What personality is your IT department?
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-24 – A bit of whimsy - Beyond the Seaweed Farm
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-18 – Brighton marathon - oh my goodness!
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-07 – IT looking forward
        2. 05-12 – Looking back: Software is Art?
        3. 05-13 – Dear Colin McCaffrey, I hope you enjoy the dime
        4. 05-20 – How much 'innovation' is just keeping up appearances?
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-07 – Conference keynotes, and the gulf between simple and complex
      7. September
        ❱
        1. 09-06 – The great cloud joke
      8. October
        ❱
        1. 10-08 – Onward and upward
        2. 10-24 – Rush-Chemistry now available in paperback
      9. November
        ❱
        1. 11-01 – Running the eBook gauntlet
        2. 11-05 – Epilogue to Suburbia eBook and Audiobook
        3. 11-06 – Non, merci!
      10. December
        ❱
        1. 12-08 – Reading up on VR Spheres
        2. 12-13 – Print on demand an unqualified success
        3. 12-13 – Virtual worlds redux
    11. 2011
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-26 – Found in a field - a piece of pot
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-04 – Jack Crymes RIP
        2. 02-21 – The day that Apple died
        3. 02-21 – Quick music industry (on the take) take
      3. March
        ❱
        1. 03-25 – It all began with the bright lights…
      4. April
        ❱
        1. 04-09 – Unusual Suspects
      5. May
        ❱
        1. 05-24 – Should we trust the (social) network?
        2. 05-24 – Gary McKinnon and the next 24 hours
        3. 05-28 – Mugs arrive Tuesday - get your orders in now!
      6. June
        ❱
        1. 06-08 – Apple iTunes Match and the law of unintended consequences
        2. 06-14 – Reflections on Still Canal Waters - Summer Garden Party 2011
        3. 06-20 – Of no interest to anyone whatsoever
        4. 06-30 – The future of the publishing industry?
      7. July
        ❱
        1. 07-15 – A Million Tiny Gestures
        2. 07-19 – It's just a theory... gurus and mid-life crises
      8. August
        ❱
        1. 08-22 – Reminder to self: this is the information revolution
      9. September
        ❱
        1. 09-02 – Helping a friend: software delivery check list
        2. 09-11 – Talking crap is not a crime
        3. 09-23 – Herding the article cats - a five minute work flow
        4. 09-26 – Twitter link scams grow in complexity?
        5. 09-26 – Social blood donation
        6. 09-30 – I, Technology: Can you turn your back on the Web?
      10. October
        ❱
        1. 10-06 – Brief thoughts on Steve Jobs
        2. 10-12 – I, Technology: 7 reasons why schools need 3D printers
        3. 10-13 – My Boris Bike questions
        4. 10-17 – Tech.Maven: Stand by while we augment your reality
        5. 10-17 – Tech.Maven: Are companies supposed to be social?
        6. 10-17 – I, Technology: Older generations need innovation, not just internet
        7. 10-17 – Cloud Society: Will the consumer cloud finally have its day?
        8. 10-19 – Tech.Maven: Closing the gap between business and IT
        9. 10-27 – I, Technology: Can I be the first to say the 'social network' is dead?
      11. November
        ❱
        1. 11-04 – I, Technology: Just how much privacy are we prepared to give up?
        2. 11-08 – Solid state storage now running at a pound a Gig
        3. 11-14 – Tech.Maven: What if CIO's shouldn't have a place on the board?
        4. 11-15 – UK SME Agenda: Too big to succeed?
      12. December
        ❱
        1. 12-02 – Inition and the shape of things to come
        2. 12-07 – So what is it you do, precisely?
        3. 12-08 – Targeted ad serving may not breach privacy laws, but it's bloody annoying
    12. 2012
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-10 – The Kernel: A home fit for start-ups
        2. 01-10 – Open data: not an open, nor shut case
        3. 01-17 – I, Technology: Is using computers to heat houses such a daft idea?
        4. 01-18 – ‎87 days to go...
      2. March
        ❱
        1. 03-02 – The Facebook IPO, and where it takes us
        2. 03-08 – Public Technology: CloudStore is only the start of needed procurement reforms
      3. April
        ❱
        1. 04-04 – The Kernel: The day the music died
        2. 04-16 – Race report: the Paris Marathon
        3. 04-18 – The Kernel: London Book Fair
        4. 04-24 – Cleaning lady’s response to Werner Herzog
        5. 04-26 – Another one bites the dust - Roadrunner Records
      4. May
        ❱
        1. 05-21 – Why aren't you passionate about open standards?
      5. June
        ❱
        1. 06-22 – I, Technology: Surface and Voice – a marriage made in geek heaven?
      6. July
        ❱
        1. 07-16 – The Kernel: Fresh fields and pastures new?
        2. 07-29 – RIP Claus Egge
      7. August
        ❱
        1. 08-24 – Sleeping rough, but not in that way
      8. September
        ❱
        1. 09-14 – Update to Separated Out
        2. 09-30 – My Desert Island Dozen
      9. October
        ❱
        1. 10-05 – A Passage To India
      10. November
        ❱
        1. 11-07 – Feedback to a budget hotel owner
        2. 11-22 – I, Technology: When is a spy-pen not a spy-pen? Don't expect a politician to know
      11. December
        ❱
        1. 12-12 – A new kind of loyalty card
        2. 12-13 – Marillion / Separated Out - Redux
    13. 2013
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-03 – Superdry - a non-technological success story
        2. 01-16 – What does “sustainable income” mean for authors?
        3. 01-27 – An Origami mobile phone / smartphone stand
      2. September
        ❱
        1. 09-16 – Reasons why I may have just unfollowed (or followed) you
      3. October
        ❱
        1. 10-03 – Another Morning
      4. December
        ❱
        1. 12-13 – Isn't a Rush-Chemistry paperback the perfect Christmas present?
        2. 12-31 – Happy New Year! And Baking.
    14. 2014
      ❱
      1. February
        ❱
        1. 02-23 – Making Big Big Bread
      2. August
        ❱
        1. 08-12 – The Pit
    15. 2015
      ❱
      1. August
        ❱
        1. 08-05 – How to choose wine
        2. 08-16 – Big Big Train, Kings Place 15 August 2015
        3. 08-21 – The nature of connectedness
        4. 08-21 – Toot
      2. October
        ❱
        1. 10-20 – What’s a blockchain? And is it heading for prime time?
      3. November
        ❱
        1. 11-10 – Medium: Athens Marathon and the elusive sub-four
        2. 11-15 – Evil is real
        3. 11-17 – We are road kill
        4. 11-24 – We are less and less in this together
      4. December
        ❱
        1. 12-08 – On writing Rush-Chemistry, and Egg Nog Gate
        2. 12-11 – Twitter map of the world - follower projection
    16. 2016
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-05 – Social media owners need to stop running uncontrolled playgrounds
        2. 01-07 – I have seen the future, and it doesn’t mention Uber
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-12 – Hipsterism isn’t a fashion, it’s a reaction...
        2. 02-23 – My big TV moment - Tetbury Woolsack and Record Breakers
      3. May
        ❱
        1. 05-25 – Ode to W H Smith
      4. June
        ❱
        1. 06-06 – On Brexit, elephants and pythons: it’s a jungle out there
      5. October
        ❱
        1. 10-28 – My first ever information management strategy
      6. November
        ❱
        1. 11-04 – On “monetisation of data” and other phrases that should be banned
        2. 11-16 – How to be smart in a post-truth world
      7. December
        ❱
        1. 12-08 – Dave and Dave, and Dave, and Alexis, and other tales of AWS serendipity
    17. 2017
      ❱
      1. October
        ❱
        1. 10-25 – A New Page
        2. 10-26 – Ripples in the Pool
        3. 10-31 – Escalator Stories
      2. November
        ❱
        1. 11-15 – There's a Spider in the Kitchen
        2. 11-22 – A New Start
    18. 2018
      ❱
      1. January
        ❱
        1. 01-05 – January 5 2018. The Yin and Yang of Innovation and Governance
        2. 01-05 – January 5 2018. The Yin and Yang of Innovation and Governance
        3. 01-12 – January 12 2018. Digital transformation - when specificity becomes too specific
      2. February
        ❱
        1. 02-27 – Here it comes
    19. 2019
      ❱
      1. March
        ❱
        1. 03-05 – Putting on the oxygen mask
      2. April
        ❱
        1. 04-10 – Hey LinkedIn, bear with me on this...
      3. October
        ❱
        1. 10-23 – Travel Forward 2019: Let's do this
        2. 10-23 – How not to run a sub-four marathon
        3. 10-23 – Updating site
        4. 10-23 – How I Write Reports
        5. 10-24 – Dystopian Dreams
        6. 10-25 – Retrospective thoughts on Smart Shift
        7. 10-31 – Afterthoughts
        8. 10-31 – We go to the end
      4. November
        ❱
        1. 11-01 – The Silences
        2. 11-07 – Snippet
        3. 11-22 – Time is a mirror
      5. December
        ❱
        1. 12-09 – Prologue
    20. 2020
      ❱
      1. February
        ❱
        1. 02-26 – Write about what you know, they said
      2. May
        ❱
        1. 05-05 – A Recipe for Wholemeal Sourdough Bread. With Notes.
    21. 2021
      ❱
      1. June
        ❱
        1. 06-17 – The Records

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