I’m working in India at the moment. Of course, I’m trying to drink in the culture, but this isn’t a holiday so my mind is mostly on work. However, I couldn’t help noticing something. In India, it seems like everyone has a smartphone. It shouldn’t be a surprise to me to see a smartphone in everyone’s hand, […]
Tell us what you really think, Rob
Yes. This is a blog about same-sex marriage and Rob Wilson, but before we get to the meat and two veg, some disclosure from me is probably apt. Being Muslim, I’m acutely aware of the common-or-garden opinion of people of a religious bent, and probably Muslims in particular. The prevailing view – and it might […]
The whole world in your hands?
Get a gaggle of gristled old web developers together and after comparing war wounds inflicted by The Great Browser Wars, they’ll fondly recall the good-old-bad-old days. It’s not so long since it was a struggle to justify spending a decent proportion of organisational time and resources on a website. When the Internet was only just […]
How being Muslim is as bad as being a Prince fan
One of the Christmas gifts I was given was a book about Prince, who I’ve been a fan of since hearing Kiss. The book is a great read if you are a fan, though the level of obsession author Matt Thorne displays feels both laudable and slightly worryingly creepy in equal measure. Reading the book I […]
Don’t Forget the ‘social’ in social media
In social situations it’s considered polite to listen to what somebody is telling you before responding but many organisations don’t follow this simple etiquette. It’s a form of corporate egotism that harks back to past glories, and it’s a habit that it would be wise to unlearn. It used to be enough – in any […]
What to do when good projects go bad
Even though many will deny it, anybody who has worked in IT for any length of time will have been part of what started out as a great project, with an amazing brief, and creative team, but which ultimately, for whatever reason, was aborted. I chose the word ‘aborted’ rather than ‘failed’ because I’ve been […]
The disappointing things about Gaza
It’s not the fact that the tiny sliver of land that is Gaza – a place utterly incapable of sustaining or controlling it’s own economy and supporting civilian infrastructure – is under attack that’s disappointing. It is the depressing inevitability of it all as Israel approaches a set of elections in January 2013 at the […]
Migrating from Salesforce to sugarCRM? You might need some relationship counselling
Breaking up is never easy. In business, as in private life, sometimes relationships just don’t go the way we thought they would. Even if everyone involved has the best of intentions. In particular new relationships can start out amazingly well, but occasionally, and usually gradually, they can become difficult to maintain once everyday reality sets […]
Exploding the “expensive” SharePoint myth
There is emerging evidence that IT budgets are being protected from cuts being made across businesses in the current economic conditions. This is great news for those of us who work to ensure that IT is considered as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than the after-thought it can sometimes be. Even so, IT departments must […]
On The Political Class
I read an Suzanne Moore article which trickled down my Twitter feed, it was the title that intrigued: I have not been poor for a long time. When you have been, you never forget The author seemed to be getting carried away with herself, making sweeping generalisations such as: “…a pointless debate ensues about “poverty” among a […]