1) Why I Chose IT
What Does the IT Department Really Do?
Jun 16th
The latest post from Turning Technology Invisible – What Does the IT Department Really Do? is available here. To my fellow BlogIdol bloggers… see you tonight!
Are You a Data Hoarder?
Jun 2nd
Note: This is a repost from my other blog to keep you occupied while we wait for the judging to finish. . . If you ever want to cure yourself of the notion that you live a simple life, move. We moved this week into a new home. We love the house, the yard, and [...]
The judging has begun
May 30th
Thanks to all who participated in this year’s Blogging Idol competition. The contest is now closed, and the judges are sweating it out to determine the winners by Monday, June 6. Just because the contest is over doesn’t mean you can’t keep posting to the blog. Keep at it, and watch this space for the [...]
Value for Money
May 24th
I recently got involved in helping to prepare a workshop on enhancing Value for Money in procurement. Funny how the complexities of the topic jump out at you when you try to make a few slides – what you may have thought was a straightforward concept becomes a minefield of definitions and concepts, just like [...]
Count Down – T – 70 minutes
May 22nd
Ok. You caught me rushing to post something/anything during a TV commercial……… Just occurred to me – who thinks that watching TV on your PC/phone/watch is better than the nice big screens we have nowadays? Everything has a purpose, don’t you think? I had a nice evening, with a friend, sitting on a balcony [...]
A Knight’s Tale… the end of 2011 Blog Idol Canada
May 22nd
Once upon a time there was a handsome CIO ( you may disagree, but it’s MY fairy tale). He had spent a number of years learning his craft, with much help along the way from wiser leaders. In spite of this good counsel, our hero gained a number of calluses and scars from battling the [...]
I Believe in Miracles
May 21st
Now there are two kinds of miracles, the traditional kind which are supernatural events, outside the realm of science and in the realm of the spiritual. Then there are what we call modern miracles, things which were not possible a few years ago, but have been acheived through ingenuity, creativity, application of the latest research, and [...]
What’s In It For Me? Why I volunteer for a technology nonprofit
May 20th
I must admit that I have a bias. I have a strong bias towards the positive potential information technology. I envision information technology as a key part of the solution to many of our local, global, environmental and social problems. I beleive that information technology is also a great equalizer, a motivated person with basic [...]
Recognizing Canadian Innovation and Achievement
May 19th
Last night I attended the 26th Annual CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Awards Gala Dinner, and I had a chance to meet some of the award winners: Jason Goldberg, founder and president of Ideal Life won the Wellington West Award for Outstanding Product Achievement in ICT/Health/Clean Tech. He started this company several years ago believing he could [...]
Why I Chose IT or How I Learned to Love the Enemy: Pt1
May 17th
Ladies, gentlemen and system administrators; I am new and very late to this contest! I have been dealing with technical difficulties of the illness kind and so, I have some catching up to do. I was planning to read up on the other entries first, to make sure I am not being redundant. But time [...]
BYOT and Clouds – Is There a Connection?
May 11th
As part of Blogging Idol, we’ve been considering several topics that relate to IT infrastructure: new end user devices (tablets and so on), mobility, use of personal devices for business (BYOT – bring your own technology), and applications that use cloud computing. So…..are there any themes, best practices or general wisdom that can be applied to or derived from [...]
What is Cloud Computing?
May 3rd
How Cloud Computing will change everything (and nothing)……that is the question for Blogidollers. This begs the related question – what is Cloud Computing anyway? People are still trying to define Cloud Computing – NIST is one of the leaders in this area and ISO/JTC1/SC38 is emerging as a standards committee that will eventually formalize definitions [...]
Shopping for a smartphone – part 3 – freedom to innovate
Apr 30th
This has been a crazy week for me, perhaps if I already had my smartphone, I might have been able to complete this post earlier. With this third post, I’m getting to the heart of what I’m looking for in a smartphone purchase. In my first post, I rambled about my rationale behind wanting an [...]
Why I chose an IT career – and why I’m still here
Apr 28th
Now there is an interesting question. I had to think back a little. I suppose the easy answer is – I didn’t – it chose me. At high school graduation, a classmate asked me what I now intended to do after graduation. I have to admit I had absolutely no idea. Certainly, as a younger [...]
Glitz and Glamour
Apr 16th
Just in case anyone in the blogosphere has been wondering…….I’ll get around to adding some pretty pictures and URL references to my posts sometime soon. I have been having enough fun just doing the writing!!
