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IT HANG 5: The Ride of Our Lives on the IT Wave

Having written a reflective blog on where we started in IT and one on where the future of research may take us, it’s worth contemplating the journey from past to present and into the future. And what a...

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2010 or 2016???– A HEX on you!

At first I thought the news reports of EFTPOS systems at a bank here in Australia not working with a ‘Y2K’ type of bug on New Year’s day were exaggerated – but the article in Tuesday’s Sydney Morning...

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Getting the Time Right – Still

Since posting my previous blog Time and Tide wait for No Man I have noticed a few other examples of where the time had not ‘automatically’ adjusted for daylight saving changes.  I say ‘automatically’...

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Why don’t they [IT] ever learn?

I was chatting with friends last weekend about work and the conversation led to discussing how hard IT seem to make things for users "STILL".  As an ex-CIO who started out as an analyst/programmer in...

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“On time and on budget!” but at what cost?

How many times have we heard the Project Manager proudly announcing that they have delivered the project “on time and on budget” --- and you cringe? Over the past 3-4 months there have been a number of...

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A Wii bit of Pain Relief

Once again, research designed for one purpose (games) being used in another (healthcare). When I wrote about Cruiser and PhoTable (Nov 23 2009) I had a personal interest in my friend’s research, but...

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Chargeback for Analytics as a Service: or “AS you like IT”

With due respect to the great bard – I couldn’t resist the play on words. I’ve been thinking about my comments last year on Cloud Computing and the reinvention of the bureau service 40 YEARS on: From...

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MDM and the Fashion Stakes

I was doing some shopping on the weekend, and while I have become used to shoe sizes being in different numbers, i.e. with some allowance for US, EU, UK, etc variations, I am still irritated by it....

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“LEST WE FORGET” and the importance of Archives and personal records.

On Remembrance Day, 11th November, I remembered members of my family who had undergone military service, reflected on what I knew of their particular experiences and how I came to know these things. In...

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Big Data or not, what’s in a name?

A lot it seems – if you have a ‘special’ character in it. Considering I attended our Teradata Universe last week when there was much discussion on how to address the ‘big data’ issue challenging many...

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