RichardCollings

Quite like Peter White's alternative term for workaholic: 'contented busy' - RichardCollings

Useful website for charity/nfp emarketing/search optimisation - RichardCollings

Now there's a surprise: goverment getting ripped off by PFI. Its only taken 9 years for them to work this out. No wonder CBI concerned that it might get dropped - RichardCollings

Another incumbent large IT company fights off SME cheaper competition - no doubt due to lack of bottle on part of procurement people. 'Nobody got sacked for buying IBM' lives on 40 years later. All very depressing - RichardCollings

Ha! Flash now accounts for 70% of all malware vulnerabilities with other Adobe and Java products making the remainder of the top 10. No Microsoft products. - RichardCollings

Yet another time tracking tool - RichardCollings

Key difference between checklists and tickboxes is how they are used - the former don't stop you thinking or taking responsbility; the latter do - RichardCollings

Recommended by somebody in the agile/lean community. Looks at the way language conditions our thinking/understanding - RichardCollings

Agile thinking comes to accounting - why having a fixed budget for the year really doesn't make sense: you learn/evaluate as you proceed and adjust in the light of that - RichardCollings

So much for this government's commitment to SMEs. What this doesn't take account of is large company's ability to screw the maximum value out of any contract compared to SMEs desire to deliver a high value service. Day rates do not tell the whole story. - RichardCollings

An 3G (well HSPA+) dongle that gives faster than broadband downloads (12Mbs down; 1.47Mbs up). Is this the end of landline based broadband - RichardCollings

From 20% delivering services as part of their role in 2008 to 31% now - RichardCollings

Never mind the quality, feel the paperwork. A good example of how the quality police focus on completely the wrong things - RichardCollings

So that's large goverment contracts sorted then. Just add a few clause about agile and we're done! Do I see yet another major disaster looming? - RichardCollings

Part of the long predicted shinkage in the number of web CMS products on the market? A few years ago RedDot was a significant player in the mid range section. - RichardCollings

Another time analysis/screen recording tool - RichardCollings

Useful analysis of the NHS IT Project and the role of some of the senior, highly paid execs that have been involved in what is a massive failure and waste of money - RichardCollings

Is 'FBI removes my server' on your risk register? - RichardCollings

An interesting counter view to the current view that stress is bad for you - RichardCollings

Hmmm - if any of this is true then maybe this government is doing one thing right. Perhaps its not just the not for profit sector that is being hit. The question is: is this a temporary halt before the gravy train restarts; or a permenant refactoring of the way the goverment uses consultants. - RichardCollings

Good example of how setting targets for and measuring the wrong thing (in this case 'response times') results in poorer service and ineffiencies. As Tom Gilb pointed out a long time ao, it is realitively easy to succeed against one target - it is much more difficult to actually deliver a quality product or service that the users actually feel good about - RichardCollings

SOCiTIM data handling guidelines are being referenced by government agencies as being applicable to third sector organisations that they are sharing information with - RichardCollings

Interesing looking research into the role of ICT systems in child protection work and the way it is changing the way in which social workers build a picture of their clients and their families. - RichardCollings

Very, very intersting article about how health care is delivered in the US and its wider implications for how you deliver complext care - the bottom line is that it is about improved communcation. - RichardCollings

Reality doesn't match the rhetoric time (yet again). Quangos being forced by goverment to choose more expensive IT solutions in order to save money! Nothing changes. - RichardCollings

Some interesting stats on the extent to which older browsers are still in use (~17% of users) - RichardCollings

Hmmm - RichardCollings

Useful analysis of the recent Ofcom report on mobile broadband performance. - RichardCollings

Some of the comments sum this up: a stupid law written by people who don't understand IT and policied by more stupid people who don't understand it - RichardCollings

This is the future for the NHS if it is privatised. Castlebeck are a mainstream provider (£90m turnover) charging £3500/week per patient. - RichardCollings