I'm a Blogging Idol enthusiast who also does consulting for a living. I began my career as a railway data communications engineer. After working for a bank for 7 years, I took up the consulting challenge and I still find it challenging! I try to keep in touch with a lot of different I&IT topics but I'm usually working in areas that involve service management and procurement. I'm back into ISO standards development - in the area of cloud computing (ISO JTC1/SC38). I'm starting to get more interested in networking history, so I guess I'm starting to look backwards as well as forwards! My homepage is http://www.concon.com
Apple has been in the news recently due to the announcement of their second quarter earnings report. Apparently the results met analyst expectations and yet there have been various news articles – some positive but some also predicting future doom … Continue reading
I’ve run across the term “Bitcoin” a few times recently. So, I turned to Wikipedia for an explanation and discovered that’s its actually been around since 2009. Bitcoin is one of the first implementations of a concept called “crypto-currency”. It’s … Continue reading
This morning I was getting ready to write a new whitepaper when I began to wonder……are people reading more or less than they did a decade ago (let’s even say pre-year 2000)? I wonder if it might be less….. I’ve … Continue reading
Your network infrastructure has most likely become business critical. Ask yourself – what would happen to my business if the internal network and the Internet were both unavailable for an extended period of time? Networks provide the “glue” to interconnect … Continue reading
A few days ago I ran into an article about the possibility of Apple developing an iWatch…….a watch that even includes curved glass. One of the articles is here. There are even pictures of possible iWatches – here’s one from … Continue reading
The word “service” is everywhere these days….to a point where it’s becoming a disservice to use it! Recently, while preparing Canadian comments on the emerging ISO/ITU reference architecture for cloud computing, I had to stop and ask myself the question … Continue reading
Fifty years ago this blog’s title would have been pretty meaningless to most people, including me. Today it clearly means a very small hand held refrigerator that can communicate over the Internet and would fit into your pocket, right? Well, its … Continue reading
Recently there has been quite a bit of news about the recent discovery of security issues with Java. For example, Toronto’s Globe and Mail reported on it here. Then, there were articles reporting on the fact that Oracle had issued … Continue reading
I was thinking about writing a blog on education for IT people, especially now that 2013 is finally here (and for me the days are going by quickly). Isn’t it time to add continuous learning to our New Year’s resolutions? … Continue reading
January is usually when we draw conclusions from the IT year just past and try to forecast the future. For some reason I’m motivated to try that now……perhaps it’s the tradition of trying to guess what Santa will bring that … Continue reading
I was watching the coverage of the US Presidential election on TV last night, and presumably many (or most) of you were too. I flipped channels for a while but eventually settled on the CNN broadcast. I have to admit … Continue reading
Recently, I saw this graphic via a Facebook posting from MakeUseOf.com: I had to stop and think about this, and of course my thinking is biased by me being a user and buyer of these technologies. For me, the underlying … Continue reading
The ICT industry has been on a quest for connectivity nirvana since the 1970s – the general idea is that everything and everyone should be interconnected at all times no matter who they are, where they are or what they … Continue reading
No, not just someone that uses electricity! The other day I was asked to take an online test to verify whether or not I am a Word 2007 “power user.” This was intriguing to me not only because it was … Continue reading
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