Idle Ramblings Next 6 months targets At the start of the year the company I work for sets targets for the next six months. These targets often have no bearing on the overall strategy or direction of the team
Idle Ramblings Sudden Truth It's a rather sad state of affairs when you realise that the greatest achievement you can claim in a day where a meeting wasn't involved is going to the toilet.
Idle Ramblings LASIK Part Two The post surgical advice the laser specialists give you is to go home and sleep but I found this rather impossible to do. My eyes felt like I'd been standing in the middle
Idle Ramblings LASIK Part one Two months ago I underwent LASIK eye surgery to correct my short-sightedness. Several people have been asking for more details and what the downsides of it all are so I thought it might
War Stories Exploring the Job Market So it's that time of year again, appraisals - the part where you sit down with your manager, he tells you just how useful you are and how you don't quite get a
Idle Ramblings Offsite Vendor presentation meeting So I've been meeting most of my targets and have been fairly organised work wise and this has now come back and bitten me because I've been told that I need to go
Idle Ramblings Company Takeover The company where I work has just been taken over by a much larger organisation. I'm not going to say where I work for now as enough has been plastered over the technical
Idle Ramblings Mac OS I'm not much of a Mac fan. This is simply because I don't have a need to use Mac's. I have friends who use and love the Mac book pro and I've seen
Security Data lost by Revenue and Customs The news story linked above talks about the UK Government losing 25 million records containing names, addresses, national insurance numbers and bank details. Apparently the data was password protected but not encrypted, Now
Idle Ramblings Project time Analysis After last weeks fun and games with project management and changing deadlines I've come to the conclusion that I really don't like MS Project. Maybe this is because I don't really know how
War Stories Bad Project Management Sometimes this industry makes me want to scream. My old favourite the artificially tight deadline has been back in force this week with a project due to finish at the end of the
Security InfoSec I had the pleasure of attending this years infosec event at Olympia and it was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon - even with the hard sell By some vendors!! I wasn't aware of any
Idle Ramblings Automated phone systems Working in the IT field means I'm often on the phone to different companies and the one thing I VERY quickly learn to hate are the automated call handling systems that it seems