When my management consulting career suddenly turned to providing services to the Government of Canada, I initially thought “wow – this is going to be incredible. An opportunity to see how the inner workings of Government actually happenâ€. What I didn’t realize at the time was exactly how different it would be from working in […]
Read More →I fully admit that I have a very non-traditional view of the universe. For example, a while back one of my significant others and I got into a study of mysticism and theology. Eventually she went her way and I went mine but not before I really got hooked on a number of principles of […]
Read More →The story so far . . . I’m checking my non-existent stocks (read: crash boom ba) due to some other good news I got this week and a funny thing happened on the way to the technical charts. One of them, Rentech, showed a ton of interest today. Not only that but apparently there is […]
Read More →No, not that type of BI, I’m referring to the trend of information management and technology towards what is called Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence, or BI, is not simply software but rather an entirely new way of thinking about data mining. Traditional forms of data mining usually involve relational data models and custom generated reports. […]
Read More →So I’m playing around with my iPhone and I come across the latest app (okay probably not the latest but its now in the top 25 to be downloaded recently) which is Apple’s iBook. And so I poke around a bit more – download – Bob’s yer uncle – fill yer boots and all that […]
Read More →Just like Chicken Little, people all across twitter today have been running around with the same question: “Is it just me or is Skype not working?â€. Yes Virginia, the Skype has fallen. A massive outage today has effectively brought the entire Skype network to its knees. Beyond this however is a series of amazing insights […]
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