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Have you ever been in a position where you had to say something was “off the record” to a journalist, and then worried about whether it would stay that way? And does it matter anyway?
Apocryphal story. Kenny Dalglish was at a press conference announcing the return of Ian Rush from Juventus to Liverpool. And one [...]

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I’m in the middle of moving offices, with all the packing/unpacking/throwing away it entails. There is a cathartic feel to it.
And, for an information ferret like me, there is enormous temptation to stop and read bits of things I have resolutely refused to throw away. Occasionally, I give in to that temptation. To read. Never [...]

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Over the last five years, my thoughts and actions have moved more and more into a community-driven, market-standard-based, opensource-influenced, platform-independent and device-agnostic IT world.
This was not always the case.
Originally I was comfortable with the notion that TCOs for enterprise IT were optimised by strategic vendor relationships, and that one could outsource many of the problems [...]

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