Archive for February, 2008
The hottest meme in IT right now is green. Every IT company on the planet is making kit that uses less juice than its last lot of planet-wreckers and aggressively touting themselves as tree huggers of the highest order.
Never mind that the real issue here is the folding stuff. Electricity prices are going through the [...]
Earlier this week a PR company offered me an interview with their client, which is about to release a very fast, very powerful and somewhat iconic new computer and an accompanying storage system.
Here’s my reply to the PR:
“I’m as interested in the storage device as I am in the mainframe, so if the spokesperson can [...]
For as long as I have done journalism I have had a sore neck and a sweaty ear, thanks to the need to jam the phone between ear and shoulder during interviews.
I’ve tried all sorts of things to sort that out, but may finally have found a solution: BlueTooth.
I won a DJ style bluetooth headset/microphone [...]
I’ve been very fortunate to visit Vietnam twice in the last eighteen months and on our first visit we zeroed in on a chain of restaurants called Pho 24.
Pho basically chicken noodle soup and is the Vietnamese national dish. On the street in Vietnam you can buy a bowl for about 30 cents, but in [...]
An interesting email reached my Inbox this morning.
“Hello -
I noticed your recent post on Topic X and that My Client made your list . I would love to put you in touch with the CEO of My Client, to learn more about their technology, company story and what makes them different.
Would someone on your staff [...]
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A good video.
I like the idea of nerds making their own Star Trek episodes.
Will Alan Moore disown the watchmen movie?
I like S3.
This story of mine is also running in the USA now. If there were a Digg for Storage, it would be at the top.
So Yahoo! has told MSFT to bugger off.
Interesting. Yahoo! has struggled for years but says it can extract more value from itself than a 60% premium bid. Just how can it now say it can turn itself around and grow this time?
Actually, I don’t think they are planning that. Anyone who has worked in a [...]
I wholeheartedly support today’s apology to the stolen generations.
And I’m blogging it for two reasons.
One is that I fully expect that ten years from now, blogs like this one will be material that my son uses when writing reports about the tenth anniversary of the apology. He’ll be in year nine. So hi there, future [...]
Remember baby jokes? You know … why couldn’t the baby turn around in a corridor?*
These are much funnier.
* It had a javelin in its head.**
** This was funny when I was 12. Now that I am a parent, it is mortifying.
The effects of Punk have never gone away. Punk acts like the Sex Pistols now considered important artists, in their own way.
And the punk ideology has never gone away. In fact even a band like The Go-Betweens, whose sweet pop music could never be described as having any punk aesthetic, openly admitted that they owe [...]
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- TechTarget ANZ
- The best way to develop BlackBerry applications
- Analysts calls on SAP to do more with its centers of excellence
- Five cloud computing fibs
- Microsoft details cloud BI, data warehousing
- Book extract: Prioritizing security spending
- Role-based access improves applications' power
- IT exec's best practices for application consolidation include SaaS
- FAQ: Agile practices and their role in software development
- How Windows 7's XP mode keeps old apps alive
- Could a containerized, Microsoft-style, data center work for you?
- What I’m listening to
- Smart Call Podcast
- Smart Call #72 – Electrifying customer serviceSorry for the corny title for this show, but what else can one call a program in which our two interviewees come from Energex and Energy Australia? From Energex, we have Dayle Grant, the company’s Contact Centre Group Manager. Dayle joins us to explain how the company gets ready for summer, when tropical storms, extreme heat [...]
- Smart Call # 70 – Travel and analytics advance agentsOn this show, we have a look at two unusually advanced ways to improve agent performance. The first comes in our main presentation, which comes from Paul Cahill, General Manager Customer Service at Internet Service Provider iiNet, which operates contact centres in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Paul explains how iiNet works to build a consistent [. […]
- Smart Call #69 – Who’s the boss?In this episode of Smart Call, we ask: Who’s the Boss? And we do so in two ways. First up, we have Dr. Catriona Wallace of callcentres.net sharing the results of her firm’s annual Australasian Benchmarking Report with us. Catriona finds that call centre bosses have some happier challenges at the moment, because fewer workers are leaving [...]
- Smart Call #72 – Electrifying customer service
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