All Entries in the "Humor" Category

What A Load Of Tosh! Do You Buy This?

I was researching a subject when I found something on YouTube. Just take a look at this load of crap (below). I’ve not seen such self-important, head-in-the-clouds nonsense since watching Oprah. I just don’t buy this ‘Enterprise Architecture Solves World Hunger’ angle at all.
I’m wearing one of De Bono’s Black Hats for this. Maybe [...]

I AM NOT A PC. Are You?

According to this latest Microsoft commercial, everyone is a PC. Hmmmm… interesting angle.

But I am standing firm. I am NOT a PC. Here’s why:

When I upgrade something in my life (like a car), I really upgrade it, not just stick bling on what I had before.
I won’t be told to upgrade until I am [...]

Diary of a Tired CTO

Dear Diary
I did the following things this month.
Met fourteen different IT vendors who gave an impressive high impact presentation on how their products and services can guarantee cost effective, cutting edge, optimized, and seamless, business value in tune with our strategic goals.
Rejected three vendors as their presentations were not in line with strategic customer oriented [...]

How To Decide If A Book’s Worth Opening, in 90 Seconds

#$%% INFORMATION OVERLOAD !!)>%%  If you’re anything like me, you’ve got far too much to read and not enough time to read it. Papers, emails, forms, magazines, books, websites and blogs. Loads of stuff to read. It’s always helpful to have a way of sorting the wheat from the chaffe!
Merlin Mann on his blog 43folders.com [...]

Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings

It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know for sure that no one will have anything substantial to report, or a few trumpeters will hype up their [...]

5 Reasons Why Lightworkers (in IT) are like Luke Skywalker

I’ve often written about Lightworkers and Darkworkers. There are similarities between the boy-hero and Lightworkers I thought might be fun.

He trusted his instinct and acted upon it:Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope switched off his targetting computer and trusts his instinct when firing that bomb thing into the Death Star. What a guy. Lightworkers in [...]

My Tenuous Link To…. Bill Gates

I Have A Tenuous Link With Bill Gates Because…
… I once bought a pizza (although I didn’t eat it) from a Seattle restaurant that Bill Gates frequently used in his teenage years!
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My Tenuous Link To…. Larry Ellison (Oracle CEO)

This Tenuous Links series is a bit of fun. I have tenuous links with many Industry Giants (as we all do, probably), so here goes.
I Have A Tenuous Link With Larry Ellison Because….
… I was the first to use the toilet he had just sat on, when he visited Oracle Europe’s HQ in 1998!
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A Funny Story I Was Just Reminded Of!

Ring-tone…
A few years ago when cellphones had taken off commercially I turned up at my friends place and the door was answered by his wife - my friend had gone out. She said I should wait, so I followed her into the kitchen where she started to pick up the body of a wired landline [...]

Are you a Budding IT Exec? How to find out

To continue the theme (see Are you a Technical Professional? and Are you a Geek?), you can find out if you’re a IT Leader in the making by asking yourself if you exhibit three or more of the behaviors below:

You find yourself thinking with pragmatism and not with perfectionism
You wish COBOL.NET was THE language of choice, so you [...]