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- "Spirit Maiden"
- ‘Nuff Said
- "This is Bloody Dangerous!"
- (In)Correct Tripod Technique!
- ... And Sand Dunes!
- ...And Then Three Come Along All At OnceReflections on an excellent Summer for live music
- 21st Century Schizoid ManRuminations on leadership, and how leadership responsibilities change with your perspective
- 3D Photos from Myanmar
- 4g CO2 Per Email. Really???
- A "False Colour" Experiment
- A "Found" Quadtych
- A Bit More Action
- A Bit of Variety
- A Bit Stretched!
- A Broader View
- A Career in Modelling?
- A Case for Extreme HDR?
- A catholic Taste in Films?
- A Confident PredictionMusings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows
- A Curse Manifests
- A Custom More Honoured In the Breach
- A Day of Drama
- A Day of Travails
- A Delightful Little Surprise
- A Diffraction of Photographers
- A European Visitor’s Guide to Hawaii
- A Failure of Curation
- A Fast Diff AlgorithmAn implementation of a Diff algorithm in VB.NET, with various techniques to improve performance
- A First Day Mistake I've Never Seen on LinkedIn
- A Heretical Proposition
- A Laser-Like Focus?
- A Long But Rewarding Day
- A Long Drive, then a Great Opener
- A Long Road, But a Great Destination
- A New Nadir
- A New Twist
- A Nice Surprise
- A ParableLessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product
- A Ray of Sunshine
- A Shortage of Analysts?Bemoaning the systemic failings which are leading to a general lack of good business analysts
- A Splash of Colour
- A Square Peg, and Only Round HolesMusings on whether an architect can fit neatly anywhere in a traditional IT organisation hierarchy
- A Surprisingly Tricky Subject
- A Tide In The Affairs Of MenObservations on the Inaudible, Incomprehensible and Impossible "Interstellar"
- A Visitation
- A$$hole Driven Development and Other Anti-PatternsMusings on antipatterns in development, project management and IT governance
- Absence of Elephant
- Abstract from the Erg Chebbi
- Acceptable Update Strategies
- Action At A Distance
- Adjustable Architecture and Minimising Waste
- After the Overture, the Performance
- Album Update
- All Change…
- All Change... (part 2)
- Also from the “Foss a Siva”
- Amazing Zimanga
- Amusing Pineapples, Hilarious Beach Blanket!
- An Agile Architecture War Story
- An AI Scares Itself, and Me
- An Eventful Day
- An Experiment
- An Historic Day
- An Ideal Blogging Platform?
- An Odd Omission
- An Open Letter to Panasonic
- An Uncomfortable Vision
- An Unloved Park?
- And Another Dead Tree...
- Andrew's Gone to Iceland – and Not Just for Fish Fingers!
- Angels and Badlands
- Annoyance-Based Technology SelectionMy tales of woe with that most commonplace of technology, the mobile phone 🙁
- Another Day, Another Village, Very Different
- Another Shot of Mesa Verde
- Ansel Would Be Proud?
- Application Development Strategies
- Architects - Masters of Order and Unorder?A consideration of how an architect should handle complex or chaotic behaviour, using the Cynefin framework
- Architects AnonymousA tounge in cheek look at how addictive architecture and design work can be
- Architecture Lessons from a Watch Collection
- Architecture, Design and EngineeringIs IT architecture about "hidden plumbing" or "visible design" delivered to users?
- Are British Airways a Bus Company?
- Are There More Bricks or Photos?
- Are We Becoming the Eloi?
- Are We Becoming the Eloi? The Academic Version
- Are We Nearly There Yet?Musings on the lack of standardisation in gadget power supplies
- Articles on Agile Modeling and Architecture
- Ask A P'liceman
- Auto Everything? Not Quite...
- Back in the US of A
- Back in the USA!
- Back On The Road
- Back to Albuquerque
- Back to Cuba!
- Back to Italy!
- Back to Marrakech
- Back to the ‘Fray
- Back to the Future
- Back to the Street
- Backing Up
- Balloon Fiestas - The Awards
- Barbados – Mojo Reanimated
- Barbados Portfolio Update
- Beauty is Only Skin Deep
- Best Practices in Test Automation
- Bhumtang Yiddle-I-Po
- Bhutan: What Technology Worked, and What Didn't
- Bird-Dogging, To Hyphenate Or Not To Hyphenate?
- Blast from the Past
- Blogger Me!
- Blogging: What It Is and How It Works
- Bolting Horse Cart
- Book Review Restructuring
- Bread Delivery
- Break Compatibility, Lose Loyalty
- Brilliant Balloons, Terrific Temples, and a Hip-Hop Heffalump!
- Bububu and M'Kokotoni
- Business FlexibilityThe business equivalents of expansion capabilities like the spare slots in a desktop PC
- Business Models
- Busy Bee…
- Buttons Or Switches? Buttons Are Better!
- Bye, Bye, Albuquerque
- Caldera Sunset #1
- Caldera Sunset #3
- Caldera Sunset Zen
- Camels and Dunes
- Camera History
- Camera History Update
- Can No-One Write A Good Book About Oracle SOA?
- Canon EOS 70D: Cynical, Substantial or Stepping Stone?
- Capture and Visualisations
- Capturing the Setting Sun
- Caught by The Law!
- Channel Hopping Mad!
- Character-Full Trinidad
- Characteristics of a Software ArchitectMy musings on what makes a good software architect
- Cheerfully Manic
- Cirrus Minor - A New Architecture Site
- Co-operative Macaques
- Collection, or Obsession?
- Combining Risk FactorsA simple analytical approach to combine the effects of multiple risk factors
- Compact Camera Alienation?
- Continuing the "USA 2014" Travel Blog...
- Conversion Challenges
- Cool Cab
- Cool Cab – Hold It Right There!
- Cottonwood Canyon Road
- Cows to the Left of Me, Gers to the Right
- Crash, Bang, Wallop, What a Picture
- Creating 3D Images for On-Screen Display
- Crete Portfolio
- Cross-PostingMusings on how to streamline the photo blogging process
- Cuba Photo Notes
- Cuba Portfolio Now Online
- Cuba Reflections
- Cuba Travel Blog – Quick Update
- Culture and Food
- Cutting It Fine
- Dark Shadows
- Day Three - Gardens, Snakes and Haggling
- Deadvlei
- Death and Service
- Death of an Alien
- Death of the Microsoft Architecture Journal?
- Demolition Man
- Desert Flower
- Design Lessons: Hotel Rooms
- Developing for Android
- Devil’s Garden and Hell’s Backbone
- Did I Speak Too Soon?
- Digital Convergence - Still WaitingAnother failed attempt to "converge" my phone. Why don't I learn?
- Disasters and Dystopias: Where Are We Now?
- Do We Want Product Development, or Platform Flexibility?
- Does a Photograph Portray the Subject, or the Photographer?
- Does Agile Miss The Point About Engineering?
- Does Your Broadband Beat a Carrier Pigeon?
- Doing Zion Justice
- Domain-Specific Languages
- Domain-Specific Modelling TechniquesSome useful Domain-Specific Languages I have developed or discovered
- Don’t Pose, Please, Just Act Natural
- Don’t Rush to Judgement
- Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover
- Down to the Lakes
- Dozy Android
- Drifting Along
- Dysfunctional Hotel - Not Impressed!
- Early Starts
- Eating the Elephant (The Tail-Piece)
- Economic Anomalies
- Economic Anomalies, Part 2
- Edge of Silence
- Efficient Fuzzy Matching at Word Level
- Empty
- Enlightenment
- Enterprise Architecture Conference
- Enterprise Architecture Conference 2006 - My PaperA paper on Agile Architecture which brings together many of my ideas for the first time
- Enterprise Architecture Conference 2011 Day 3
- Enterprise Architecture Design and the Integrated Architecture Framework
- Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Evening Glow
- Evolution of an Image
- Excellent Service
- Exploring Ait Ben Haddou
- Exploring the Souks
- Faded Grandeur
- Farewell, Ernie
- Fashion Makes Doing IT Harder
- Fashionably Early!
- Finally, in the Mountains
- Finally, Something SmallerFirst Impressions of the Panasonic GH2
- Fire and Ice – Delivered
- First Attempt at a Star Trail
- First Bibble Plugin Published
- First Photo Blog Post
- Fixing Holes
- Floating Ice
- Foiled!
- Form vs Function - a Tail 🙂 of Three Mice
- Fraud Prevention: Why Don't Banks Do More?
- From Bergamo to Verona
- From Nobgang to Bumthang...
- From the Ministry of Strange Coincidences...
- Fun at the Bird Bath Hide
- Galaxy Note Battery Problem
- Galaxy Note Battery Problem - Update
- Getting Ahead of the Curve
- Getting Ahead of the Curve – Final Update?
- Getting Ahead of the Curve - Update
- Getting Covered
- Getting High (But Not That High)!
- Getting Shooting
- Getting Wider?
- Ghost Towns
- Glacial Panorama
- Going Greener!
- Going Guerilla
- Goodbye Dr. Love
- Google Bowls a Googly
- Grockles! (Santorini Portfolio Now Online)
- Growing a Language
- Hallelujah! High ISO Which Works!
- Happy New Year!
- Hasta La Revolucion
- Have I Offended El Gauchito Gil?
- Helicopter over Hawaii
- Hereinafter
- Hot Dry Desert, Cold Damp Desert
- How Hard Can It Possibly Be?
- How Strong Is Your Programming Language?
- Hungry Birds!
- Hunting Coffee in Hana
- I Don't Want to Sound Complainin'My review of the Canon 7D. The headline: great electronics, poor ergonomics.
- I Invoke the Dragon Gods
- I Love Work, I Could Sit and Watch It All Day
- I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller?Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter
- I Told You So
- I Wuz There!
- Iceland Album Now Online!
- Iceland Photography Tips - A Spare Everything!A photographer's guide to Iceland
- Icons, or Heroes?
- Image Stabilisation – Know Your Limits?
- Improved Capture
- In Close
- In Damnation of PHP
- In the Air Again!
- In the Blue Ridged Mountains…
- In Which Andrew and Frances Solve the Problem of Food in the Grand Canyon
- In Which Andrew Meets Many Heffalumps
- Inappropriate Footwear, and an Inaccurate Prediction
- Inferring Algorithms: How Random is Your Music Player?
- Infrared White Balance
- Integrating External Content with WordPress
- Integration Or Incantation?
- Interfaces and Document IDs - A Rant
- Into the (Infra)Red
- Into the a Sahara - Sort Of...
- Into the Kalahari
- Into the Mountains
- Into Wolwedans
- IPad - Balanced Scorecard
- iPad Communications Errors
- IS Sometimes Doesn'tThe limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply
- Is Theatre Killing Theatre?
- It Now Costs a Pound to Spend a Penny!
- It’s a Long Drive, to Torres del Paine (Almost works!)
- It’s a Mystery, It’s a Mystery, I’m Just Searching for a Clue
- It’s Only Taken a Year…
- It’s Screen Time!
- It's Not Just What You Do With It, Size IS Important
- It's Not Over…
- It's Not the Camera, It's the Photographer... Well, Sort Of...
- Jambiani
- Jeepers!
- Jon Lord RIP
- Journey, Foreigner and StyxThoughts on what makes a good live music performance
- Jumpin’
- Just Get On The Train – Updated Again!
- Just Get on the Train!
- Just Get On the Train!, Updated
- Just In Case You Thought I Wasn't Photographing Any Cars
- Just So You Understand What I'm On About
- Keep Taking the Tablets
- Keeping Current
- Khan's Revenge
- Kicking Up Some Dust
- Land, Sea (Well, Lake) and Air
- Last Light
- Last Light Before Lockdown
- Last Light: A New Dawn?
- Legislative StupidityObservations on the stupid "anti-photography" laws introduced in Britain in February 2009
- Liberation from the "Frightful Five"
- Lies, Damn' Lies...
- Long Drive, but Worth It
- Looking Down Dark Alleys…
- Looping Back to Bryce
- Lots of News
- Lotsa Changes!
- Low Cost Geotagging Using Bibble
- Mac OSX–A Third-Class OS?Does Apple's opposition to virtualisation create a technical ghetto?
- Macs Are Really Easy? Ha!
- Man at Work
- Man At Work!
- Market Forces
- Master, Master, Give Us A Sign
- Meet the FrankenTripod
- Meet the Guardian!
- Memo to Car Museum Curators – Give Them Space
- Mesa Verde
- Metropolis - a Metaphor for IT Maturity
- Metropolis - Where Do You Want To Live Today?
- MFT: Formula, What Formula?
- Microsoft : Busy Fixing What Ain't Broke
- Mississippi Minimalist
- Mixed Fortunes
- Mixed Fortunes
- Modelling an Enterprise Data ArchitectureA new approach, based on UML, for modelling the real complexity of Enterprise Data Architecture
- Modelling Change in Enterprise ITTwo simple techniques to model change in an enterprise's IT portfolio over time
- Modelling Data Mapping - A Challenge
- Mojo Not Within Normal Operational Parameters
- Monochrome, Sort Of…
- More Mausoleums
- More Multishot Techniques, and Going 3D
- More Panoramas!
- Morocco - Did I Need Two Camera Systems?
- Morocco - What Worked and What Didn't
- Morocco Portfolio Uploaded
- Mountains, Trains...
- Multi-shot Photography: Alive and Clicking
- Music from Every Orifice, and a Sudden Realisation!
- My "Tenset"
- My Favourite Films - An Exercise in Over-Analysis
- My First Android App: Stash-It!
- My Grand Circle TourMy "Grand Circle" tour of Southwestern USA: what worked, what didn't, and how to avoid sleep deprivation and scurvy!
- My New Avatar – Thanks Dall-E!
- My Photo Gallery is Now Live
- My Travel Page
- Myanmar Musings (What Worked and What Didn't)
- Namibia – What Worked and What Didn't
- New Blog Now Live – Please Update Your Feed
- New Toy, New Challenges
- Nice Chopper (Ride)
- Nice Palette
- Night-Time Photography with the Sony RX100 Mk IV
- No Middle Way
- No Plan BThoughts on the inadequacy of contingency planning on the British transport networks
- No Sitting Down Time
- No Sleep Till … Images?
- Normal Service Being Resumed
- Normal Service Of This Joke Will Be Resumed Shortly
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed After Completion Of This Rant
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed–Honest!
- Not from My Cold, Dead Hand…
- Not Good For Business
- Not So Foul Bay
- Notes on the Note
- Numeracy and Spurious Accuracy
- Of Temples, Portals and Knobs...
- Off To Hawaii
- Off to Morocco
- Oh Well...
- OK Google, Here's Another One...
- Olympus TG6 – Does the T Really Stand for “Tough”?
- On Reflection, This is Really Pretty
- On the Cusp
- On the Road Again
- On the Road to Mandalay
- One for the “Bucket List”
- One from the Road
- One of Those Days…
- Onward to Bukhara
- Onwards and Upwards (A Little…)
- Oops! That Was More Sudden Than Expected
- Oryx from the air
- Other People!
- Our Guides
- Over the Mountains
- Panasonic G9. Close? Yes. Cigar? No.
- Panasonic GX8 – First Impressions
- Panorama from Kahmsum Chorten
- Paradigm Shift - Clear Memory Now!Why do we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge?
- Pearl Harbor
- Peekaboo!
- Photographic Anachronisms
- Photographing Waterfalls
- Photography Blog
- Photos from Sunny Crete!
- Picturing Zanzibar - Advice for Photographers
- Platform Flexibility - It's Alive!
- Please Don’t Shoot the Motorcyclists!
- Positively On Fire…
- Pot-lert
- Practical Enterprise Integration
- Prediction Realised: The AlpinerX
- Quantum of DisappointmentI didn't like "Quantum of Solace" - here's my review!
- Quick, Quick, Slow
- Rainbows Rising
- Raising the Bar...
- Random? That's a Coincidence...
- Re-Use Achieved with Elegance
- Red Rock Retrospective
- Red Roof Reflections
- Remember When There Was Something Called Dark and You Couldn't Make Photographs?
- Return to Kathmandu
- Review - A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Review - Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Review - My Early Life
- Review - Olympus TG2 "Tough" Camera
- Review: A House of Dynamite
- Reykjavik “Culture Night” – One Side of the Coin
- Reykjavik “Culture Night” – The Other Side of the Coin 🙂
- RIP Google Currents
- Safari Shakedown
- Sandwich Day
- Scarily Bad
- Scarily Good
- Scary Format Reversal
- Schizo!
- Season’s Greetings
- Second Time Lucky
- Secret State - A Review
- Seeing in Black and White
- Seeing in Black and White - Follow Up
- Seeing in the Dark
- SharePoint: Simply C%@p, or Really Complicated C%@p?
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shit Hit Fan!
- Shoot Only Puffins, Leave Only Footprints
- Shooting Camels
- Simply the Best!
- Singin’ the Blues…
- Singing With Each Other
- Small is Beautiful
- Smokin’
- Snap!
- So Much for That
- Some Good News
- Something Fast, Something VERY Slow
- Splendidly Dodgy!
- Spring is Here!
- Standardising the Mac Keyboard
- Starfish and Snorkelling
- Starting Back
- Strategies for FlexibilityMy 2001 paper on how to design systems for flexibility
- Street Life – Cuban Style…
- Suitable for 6 Year Old Boys of All Ages
- Sunnier Climes
- Sunrise on the Palacio
- Sunset and Swirling Sea
- Sunset Grove
- Taking the All-Round View
- Taking the Long View
- Tantric Temple
- Technical Reference Architecture
- Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows
- Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows - Update
- Testing vs Modelling, Detection vs Prediction, Hope vs Knowledge
- Testing, Testing
- Testing, Testing!
- Thar She Blows!
- That Shouldn’t Have Worked…
- That Was Quick…
- That Was Too easy...
- That’s Better!
- That's a Big Box!
- That's an Understatement!
- The "Aztec Highland Games"
- The 20 Second Selfie!
- The Achilles Heel
- The Agile Architect at EAC 2006
- The Alien Has Landed, and It's &*&^(* Huge
- The Amazing Malay Apple
- The Amazing Malay Apple – Follow Up
- The Andrew Johnston Iceland Camouflage Masterclass
- The Andrew Johnston Namib Desert Camouflage Masterclass
- The Andrew Johnston Unintentional Desert Camouflage Masterclass 2025
- The Angel's Share
- The Architect's USP
- The Back of Beyond
- The Beauty of Tuscany
- The Big Blog Split
- The British Government Reviews Its Brexit Strategy
- The Burr Trail and Into Capitol Reef
- The Challenge of SerenityNotes on visiting Masstricht, a great concert, and the challenges of photographing a candlelit chapel
- The Changing Role of An IT ArchitectHow an architect's role changes over time, and through the project life-cycle
- The Cold As Ice Blog
- The Cold Gives Me a Cold
- The Colour Nazis
- The Concert for Jon Lord
- The Cuba Travel Blog
- The Decisive Moment
- The End of the Road
- The Experiment Continues
- The Favourite: A Great Opportunity Missed
- The Fear Premium
- The First Great Heffalump Hunt
- The Golden Bhudda
- The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
- The Hut of Alleged Towels
- The Jemez Mountain Trail
- The Jester and The Unicorn
- The Lakes Get Posher
- The Last Link in the Chain
- The Last Post?
- The Laws of Identity
- The Micro Four Thirds Lens Correction Project
- The Monastery Institute
- The Mongoblog
- The Need for (Shutter) Speed?
- The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York
- The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
- The Quiver Tree Forest
- The Red Rock Blog 2023
- The Return to Paro
- The Rinpung Zhong
- The Road North
- The Road to Kathmandu
- The Road to Taos
- The Scavenger Hide
- The Silk Road Saga
- The Software Utility Cycle
- The Tail End
- The Tao of the Architect
- The Tevye Scale of ApprovalInstead of binary accept/reject assessments, here's a way for an architect to record his true feelings
- The Turquoise Trail
- The Twin-Lens Reflex 🙂
- The Unhelpful Amp-hour
- The VMWare Disk IO Problem - Fixed At Last
- The Voyage Home
- The Water Seller
- The Wolwedans Game Drive
- The World’s Second Worst Panorama 2024
- The World’s Third Worst Panorama 2023
- The World’s Worst Panorama 2023
- The World’s Worst Panorama 2024
- The World’s Worst Panorama 2025
- The World’s Worst Panorama 2026
- The World’s Worst Panorama, 2022
- The World's Worst Panorama - 2015
- The World's Worst Panorama - 2017
- The World's Worst Panorama 2018
- The Wrong Orientation?
- The Y2KXI Bug
- The Zanziblog
- The Zimanga 2025 Group Photo
- They're All Missing the Point
- Things Which Really Bug Me About the Kindle
- Thirsty Friday
- This is Really Scary…
- Three Kirks and a Kirkufell!
- Three Little Maids from School
- Thrills and Disappointments
- Through a Glass, Darkly
- Through The Dolomites
- Time to Change My Tablets
- To BD or Not to BD
- To T'North (Rim)
- To The Summit
- To The Tiger's Nest
- To Thimpu
- Tokenism Gone Mad
- Tours and Shows
- Train To Samarkand
- Travel Blogging and Photo Editing
- Trippin’ AI
- Turning Points
- Twin Tales of Sporting Daring-Do
- Two Nations Divided By A Common Language
- Typically Tropical!
- Tyrannies and Broken Business Processes
- Tyranny of the Colour BlindMusings on why Microsoft are abandoning colour as a dimension for information visualisation
- UK’s Strongest Man (And Woman!) 2023
- Underwater White Balance
- Unexpected Support
- Up, Up and Away!
- Updates from Iceland…
- Updates Rolling…
- USA 2012 - Technical Review
- Using Volume Shadowing with Ntbackup Under Vista
- Valley View
- Valuing Flexibility
- Venice Photos Coming Online
- Vernal Greetings
- Very Important, or Very Naughty!
- Virtual PC vs VMware Player - Further Thoughts
- W'as 'Is At?
- Waimea Canyon
- Waimea to Waikiki
- Walker’s Reserve
- Washington – The Monuments
- Watching The Wall Go Up
- Water, Water, Tunch
- Waterfall in the Rain
- Waterfalls, Waterfalls…
- We have red wine, and we have white wine
- We’re Going on a Guanaco Hunt!
- We're On The Road FROM Hana!
- We're On The Road To Hana...
- We're On The Road To Nowhere
- Web Service Challenges
- Webkit, KitKat and Deadlocks!
- Website and Email Back
- Website Returns, and New Photos
- Weinberg's New Law, and the Upgrade Cascade
- Welcome to Tuscany
- What Are The Chances Of That?
- What Are We Losing?
- What Are Your Waypoints?
- What Camera Should I Buy?
- What Do I Mean by "Agile Architecture"?
- What I Want In My Next DSLR
- What I Want In My Next DSLR - Progress Report
- What to Get for a Photographer’s Birthday
- What’s That Shiny Yellow Thing?
- What's in a Name?
- What's More Important: Hardware or Software?
- What's My Favourite Micro 4/3 Lens?
- When You Wish … A Different Approach To Sourcing
- Where’s Wally?
- White Pocket
- Who Are the Architects?How a number of people in different rules contribute to "architecture"
- Why Do Buses Come in Threes?
- Why I (Still) Do Programming
- Why I Like My MacBook, But I'm Beginning To Really Hate Apple
- Why REST Doesn't Make Life More Rest-full
- Why Software Isn't Like Building Construction
- Why the Galaxy Note is a Better Business Tool than the iPad
- Windows Virtual PC - Breaking CompatibilityHow Microsoft have badly broken compatibility (again!) with Virtual PC and Windows 7
- Wonderful Things
- Word Grammar Checker - A Nicely Carribean Flavour
- World War Z - One from the Ministry of Strange Coincidences...
- Yes, Kit DOES Matter
- You Need Architects...
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