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 [...]

Are you a Technical Professional? How to find out

For a bit of fun I posted some behaviors exhibited by people who classify themselves as geeks, and invited you to see how you compared. So this time it’s a list of behaviors exhibited by Technical Professionals - techies who take themselves a bit more seriously.
If you say Yes to more than 3 of these [...]

Are you a Geek? How to find out

Are you a Geek? If you do three or more of the following, then the answer is Yes!

You spend more time automating something than you ever would performing the task manually
You buy t-shirts for their comedy value
You store binaries on your iPod
You have more categories on your iPod than you do tracks
You hack your iPod
You [...]

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 [...]