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Geographically-challenged webmasters
Why do websites have to have the whole of the UN in the country drop list?
Emily Dickinson and Rudyard Kipling were already writing about IT in the 19th century!
The ultimate diversionary tactic to get clients to forget their real problems!
Reps and consultants are thoroughly schooled in a special language called vendor-speak
If we don’t have enough women in IT, blame it on Hollywood!
Office productivity? Gimme a break…
IT executive photo ops – size matters!
When it comes to technology, some executives are clearly better endowed than others.
Good guy and bad guy technologies
IT technology change is usually driven by organizational politics
Titles and departments we could do without
Bring back the good old days, when the longest job title was ‘Director of Operations’
Behind the scenes in IT after a merger
Just watch the Delta and Northwest IT staff slug it out behind the scenes!
The SDLC (Systems Development Laughter Cycle)
IT’s a serious business folks – so don’t laugh…
Wi-fi on airplanes? Enough, already!
The techno-marketers have got it all wrong! Airborne wi-fi ain’t gonna fly!
Sci-fi lessons for IT and users
IT cannot harm the business, or through inaction let the business come to harm
Remember when an apple was a fruit and a server worked in a restaurant?
Natural selection seems to apply to users too – only the fittest survive outsourcing!
Even gardeners and foresters can make a living writing legalese!
IT projects live or die by their monikers. Nix the boring acronyms. How about Sapphire or Prometheus?
The IT profession was characterized by alphabet soup right from the word GO!