Category Archives: Thoughts on the World

A Parable

Lessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product Continue reading

Sunday, January 17, 2010 in Agile & Architecture, Photography, Thoughts on the World

The Alien Has Landed, and It’s &*&^(* Huge

For any of you labouring under the myth that new computer hardware is smaller than old, please meet my new “mini” desktop! 🙂 If you’re struggling with scale, the monitor is 24″. And what’s really scary is that this is … Continue reading

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 in PCs/Laptops, Thoughts on the World

Legislative Stupidity

Observations on the stupid “anti-photography” laws introduced in Britain in February 2009 Continue reading

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in Personal News, Photography, Thoughts on the World

Website Returns, and New Photos

Apologies for the state of the website over the last week – a problem with the hosting server. I seem to have worked around it for now, so thanks for your patience and those who alerted me to the problem. … Continue reading

Friday, March 6, 2009 in Photography, Thoughts on the World, Website & Blog

A Shortage of Analysts?

Bemoaning the systemic failings which are leading to a general lack of good business analysts Continue reading

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Using Volume Shadowing with Ntbackup Under Vista

The brain-dead backup function of Windows Vista is enormously annoying. There are known ways to get good old ntbackup working, but they have their limitations. Read this article about my attempts to get round some of those limitations. Continue reading

Monday, July 9, 2007 in Code & Development, Thoughts on the World

Paradigm Shift – Clear Memory Now!

Why do we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge? Continue reading

Saturday, June 2, 2007 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

The Tevye Scale of Approval

Instead of binary accept/reject assessments, here’s a way for an architect to record his true feelings Continue reading

Friday, April 27, 2007 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

A Nice Surprise

I just thought I’d share with you one of my birthday presents today. This is wonderful 🙂 Just a shame that I no longer have my purple Porsche 🙁 Continue reading

Friday, March 16, 2007 in Thoughts on the World

Annoyance-Based Technology Selection

My tales of woe with that most commonplace of technology, the mobile phone 🙁 Continue reading

Monday, October 16, 2006 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World

Enterprise Architecture Conference 2006 – My Paper

A paper on Agile Architecture which brings together many of my ideas for the first time Continue reading

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 in Agile & Architecture, My Publications, Thoughts on the World

You Need Architects…

Just in case you haven’t already seen it…. Why you need architects, in song and dance. Enjoy! Continue reading

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World