Random thoughts... - walking in was like the scene at the end of Trading Places, the noise, the hubbub. Lots of people! I remarked to Bob Plumridge. Yes, but they're all vendors! he replied. True, but different later. - First session...

Sometimes, this job is, well, just a job and sometimes its a damn good wheeze, such as when I was invited to come along to the Silicon.com agenda setters panel last month. My approach was quite deliberately to try to bring to the party people who...

For anyone whos in London this week and wants to meet up, I shall be at Olympia Wednesday and Thursday for the jointly held conferences of Documation and Storage Expo. Indeed, Ill be presenting at both, specifically at the following sessions: -...

The one thing I didn’t expect to be doing this morning was agreeing with Tory MP John Redwood on the plight of the postal workers in the currently still-ongoing postal dispute in the UK. For one, I am full of admiration for the merry fellows...

Anyone who thinks modem speeds are a thing of the past (hi Joe, not a criticism) can't spend much time working mobile,using GPRS, throttling back the arrival of the 4Meg file in Outlook so that he can get onto the Web and postablog. 56Kbps...

Yesterday I had a rather interesting conversation with Dale about how perspectives on information management can vary according to the provenance of the people involved. At the highest, most visionary level Information Management can be defined...

A long, long, time ago, in a vertical far, far away, I once used to spend a lot of my time doing various things with UNIX - as an administrator or a developer. Somewhere along the route I appear to have become waylaid - I now spend most of my...

Never comment about those things you know nothing about, is the recommendation - so I won't remark on SAP nor, particularly, about Business Objects, though I have had dealings with both at various times. Aside from questions about what BO means...

It was with initial trepidation that I read the news that mobile phones might be allowed on plane flights around Europe. After all, along with the metro/tube/subway, churches and libraries, Antarctica and deep space, there are few places left...

Exhibitions are like travel - one spends a lot of time seemingly not doing much at all, and its completely shattering. In the case of Storage Expo, nothing at all translates into presenting, listening to presentations, participating in meetings,...

Well, well. The last thing I expected to see when I plugged in my SD card this morning, was a virus. I think I must have been picked it up earlier in the week. as I was transferring files between computers. First thing was when an AVG window...

These are indeed interesting times to be an influencer of any form, not least as we see the democratisation of influence—interestingly, not a term that has yet been adopted particularly widely. It is a timeless truth that every human being...