Digital by Default

Category: work

  • 2011: Annus mirabilis

    According to the lovely folk at Wikipedia ‘Annus mirabilis‘ is Latin for ‘year of miracles’ (amongst other similar phrases!) and professionally that is kind of what 2011 felt like for me. If 2009 was a disaster and 2010 was a pretty good step in the right direction then 2011 finally found me happy and settled…

  • Experiencing Enterprise

    Over the years I have watched my share of Star Trek (you are shocked I can tell!) and my favourite episodes were always the alternative universe episodes -Spock with a goatee, rebel Sisko etc. Yesterday I was reading the Gartner report on Web Content Management systems aimed at ’enterprise’ clients (there is the first tenuous…

  • SAMO© homepages

    In the late 70s before he became the darling of the Manhattan art-world Jean-Michel Basquiat was painting graffiti around NYC using the tag SAMO© – this stood for ‘same old shit’ and it is one of those little factoids that have always stuck with me. Over the last couple of weeks I have looked at…

  • Five year plan (or not!)

    Once upon a time, many moons ago I was asked a question in a job interview ‘Where do you see your career in five years?’. Now it was more than five years ago and I can safely say I failed to meet the answer I gave (though I came close at one point) but the…

  • G-Cloud and the end of the #unacceptable

    This talk from Chris Chant, who is leading the Governments G-Cloud initiative, has been around a few weeks now (and has even spawned its own #unacceptable hashtag) but it remains a powerful indictment of the state of IT in the public sector and from a personal point of view it could almost be talking about…