Friday, May 29, 2009

An unpleasant odour ...

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The reason why a fish pie made with rotten fish and vegetables tastes foul is that the ingredients are rotten. No amount of fiddling with th...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

How is Fatherhood?

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It's a wet nappy of exhaustion, chaos, confusion, anxiety and uncertainty punctuated by sporadic burps of bliss.
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Project management in tweets ...

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All business activities are in transition from innovation ( rare and poorly understood ) to commodity-like ( common and well defined ). The ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Welcome to the free cloud ...

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I was happy that we launched Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud yesterday along with the official Ubuntu Images on Amazon EC2. With Ubuntu you can bui...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Innovation Management in tweets ...

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Many people mix up the terms invention, idea and innovation. Innovation is the first( ish ) attempt to put an idea into practice. You can ma...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Actions speak louder ...

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Today, the chancellor presented an excellent budget. The budget contained investment in building & green technology, measures for the pr...

Events I will be speaking at ...

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I'm happy to say that I've been invited to give a keynote at OSCON this year and I'll also be providing a general session track ...

Events I won't be speaking at ...

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I've heard of lot of rumblings about various cloud conferences having excessive vendor bias. I suspect I know why. I offered to speak at...

There and back again ... a personal journey.

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Back in 2006, the company I ran, Fotango, publicly launched a JavaScript application platform that ran on an utility computing environment....
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Inflation still rampant

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Depressingly, inflation still continues to remain well above the government 2% target at 2.9% . Sterling has also gone through a sustained p...
Friday, April 10, 2009

No surprises ...

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The idea of printing money to buy high interest gilts ( a type of government bond ) at the top of the market was the monetarists "solu...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

On Speaking ...

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Web 2.0 was fantastic. I really enjoyed the talk, the audience was blooming wonderful and the conference exceptional. I was also overwhelme...