Posts under ‘Commentary’

As you might have noticed I’ve been a perfect bilingual blogger these past few weeks. Every post has had a blockquote in the other language so that everyone understands something at least. This doesn’t seem to have persuaded family and french-speaking friends to contribute and I’m making a comment about that here. It probably needs [...]

Here is what I saw this morning in the press “The Bourne Ultimatum”, the third in Matt Damon’s espionage series, has topped the North American movie chart and is the biggest August opening for a film.” Not the biggest ever. The biggest August opening. Well today I had the longest ever bus ride to work [...]

I’m still amused that this blog keeps on going. Even after almost three years I have never really established a style and range from quite personal to local comments and sometimes technical and professional.
There are however, I feel, two types of readers and visitors. Those attracted by personal comments and life in general and those [...]

I read an interesting post by Megan Berry this morning called “when worlds collide”.
She was musing over the fact that some Facebook users are worried over the collision between private and business profiles. She says :

“As a Facebook “expert” I get asked: “what Facebook apps do you use?” “why not just email instead of using [...]

This is something that you probably should have told me (but why would you have done that) a long time ago. I visit a lot of sites per day. I use(d) Netvibes as my start page because I love the magic of having the same start page over multiple sites and platforms.
I have a sidebar [...]

I have been working in IT for over 15 years and through that time software has always been seen as being effective in solving business and real life problems.
There is however a dimension that has been sorely neglected and that is organizational and social structures and human psychology. If you look at this as a [...]

Stephanie made an interesting post today reporting on a Suw Charman talk over at Google.
Now this is something I am directly involved in. I use both socially and feel that they are good and useful tools in businesses. One of the problems, from my point of view, is that technical enterprises tend to attempt to [...]

Well actually I’m a little bit pissed off by something I read a few minutes ago.
I have both British and Swiss passports. Both countries have accorded me the right to travel and would offer me some form protection at their embassies and consulates when I am travelling. If I was a known criminal my passport [...]

Long term visitors might have noticed that I’ve been Twittering on and off since the beginning of the year.
I haven’t done so since March but as I have to "repair" the sidebar I thought I would put it back.
I’m still struggling to understand the usefulness. Can you help me out here? Are you a twitter [...]

Isn’t it a little paradoxical that my last post was about an absent friend when I was being a little absent myself?
It’s a little cyclical with me. I’ve been blogging for over three years and it’s become an online presence that I won’t give up. I’ve never really found my own style though and have [...]