Why I like phone briefings

I was asked today whether I could pop into town for a half hour briefing next week, and I said I’d prefer phone in the first instance. When asked why, I gave the following example of my London routine. I thought it would be useful to post it here for future reference:
- leave home, 07.45- [...]

The bigger picture of behavioral analysis – a conversation with Tier-3

In a break with tradition, I’m going to write about a specific company in this one, or at least a specific series of conversations. I’ve been talking quite a lot to the guys at Tier-3, a company specialising in software that can look for anomalies in how IT is being used. While there are many [...]

Pulling a blog up by its bootstraps

It’s an interesting experience, starting a new blog – like any investment, one has to take the long view. As a stake in the ground, Totalimmersion currently has up to about 40 readers a day – it’ll be interesting to review this in a year. Meanwhile, its being syndicated to my chums at IT-Analysis.com, whose hit [...]

Twitter’s just a big chat, right?

S’funny. There I was thinking that Twitter was in some way different from, well, anything else. To the extent that it had taken the web publishing model and reduced it to the finest level of textual granularity, expressed as a 140-character “tweet”. And it’s a platform, open API’s, the lot.
Meanwhile, we’ve been using Skype as [...]

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, if hippies were so laid back and peace [...]

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 has an opinion, which is expressed more or less willingly; what has changed is [...]

This message is so wrong in so many ways

Just seen as I resumed my computer from suspended mode:
“Not enough memory or disk space to update the display.”
Sheesh.

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 popped up, to say a file was being [...]

A not particularly exhaustive Twitter client study

I had a quick browse about for a Twitter client, and there are plenty, many require the .NET framework which I didn’t fancy installing unless I had to. So, from a shortlist of:
- Twadget, which sits in the Vista sidebar (and what a cracking name)
- MadTwitter, simple but effective
- Pwytter, written in Python
And the answer [...]

Whoa! How Green are We!

By total coincidence, Tony and I both posted a green review of Storage Expo yesterday evening. Thinking about it, it was probably watching Tony checking a certain vendor’s credentials that at least partially prompted my own post – so perhaps its not that big a surprise… and not the first time yesterday I accidentally trod [...]