Total Immersion - Blog Archive for October (2007)

There were 12 blog postings during October (2007):

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Day 1 of Storage Expo
Random thoughts... - walking in was like the scene at the end of Trading Places, the noise, the hubbub. Lots of people! I remarked to Bob Plumridge. Yes, but they're all vendors! he replied. True, but different later. - First session...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 17th October '07

Sleepwalking Towards the Last Post
The one thing I didn’t expect to be doing this morning was agreeing with Tory MP John Redwood on the plight of the postal workers in the currently still-ongoing postal dispute in the UK. For one, I am full of admiration for the merry fellows...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 16th October '07

Nostalgic? Try Mobile
Anyone who thinks modem speeds are a thing of the past (hi Joe, not a criticism) can't spend much time working mobile,using GPRS, throttling back the arrival of the 4Meg file in Outlook so that he can get onto the Web and postablog. 56Kbps...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 18th October '07

Information Management - three sides or three mountains?
Yesterday I had a rather interesting conversation with Dale about how perspectives on information management can vary according to the provenance of the people involved. At the highest, most visionary level Information Management can be defined...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 11th October '07

Things I miss about UNIX
A long, long, time ago, in a vertical far, far away, I once used to spend a lot of my time doing various things with UNIX - as an administrator or a developer. Somewhere along the route I appear to have become waylaid - I now spend most of my...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 11th October '07

SAP blots out Business Objects
Never comment about those things you know nothing about, is the recommendation - so I won't remark on SAP nor, particularly, about Business Objects, though I have had dealings with both at various times. Aside from questions about what BO means...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 10th October '07

HELLO! I'M ON THE PLANE!
It was with initial trepidation that I read the news that mobile phones might be allowed on plane flights around Europe. After all, along with the metro/tube/subway, churches and libraries, Antarctica and deep space, there are few places left...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 18th October '07

Day 2 at Storage Expo - Greening Up the Act
Exhibitions are like travel - one spends a lot of time seemingly not doing much at all, and its completely shattering. In the case of Storage Expo, nothing at all translates into presenting, listening to presentations, participating in meetings,...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 18th October '07

What a way to start RSA - with a virus
Well, well. The last thing I expected to see when I plugged in my SD card this morning, was a virus. I think I must have been picked it up earlier in the week. as I was transferring files between computers. First thing was when an AVG window...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 20th October '07

Shoulder standing 101: being influenced by the influencees
These are indeed interesting times to be an influencer of any form, not least as we see the democratisation of influence—interestingly, not a term that has yet been adopted particularly widely. It is a timeless truth that every human being...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 24th October '07

The bigger picture of behavioral analysis - a conversation with Tier-3
In a break with tradition, Im going to write about a specific company in this one, or at least a specific series of conversations. Ive been talking quite a lot to the guys at Tier-3, a company specialising in software that can look for...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 26th October '07

Sun vs NetApp - Good Hippies Don't Divorce, Do They?
Funnily enough it was only today that I was recounting a tale to goodman David, about a formative experience I had a few years ago when two hippy friends of mine decided to divorce. It took me a while to reconcile this—after all, I thought,...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 25th October '07