How Starbucks have ruined their brand
I am what people politely refer to as a “prosumer” when it comes to coffee. Suffice to say, Google Now tells me about driving time to two locations on a Saturday morning – the St John Ambulance...
View Articlescreenrc: my defaults
I spend a lot of time working on customer systems, particularly where we have to use a jump server or bastion host to access the rest of their network. I also spend a lot of time working from dodgy...
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Moving forward at the speed of technology
When companies I buy a service from send newsletters out they occasionally have some interesting tidbits and so I saw today’s newsletter from EE telling me that I could now make journeys through public...
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Customising Polycom button configuration
One of the pieces of work I’ve been doing recently has been to reconfigure our standard Polycom handset template for our sales team. I was asked for a few specific features for them and some specific...
View ArticleHave Tom Watson and David Davis inadvertently made things worse with DRIPA?
I was all ready to pen a nice article about The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) after I attended a Home Office briefing Thursday at the ITSPA summer forum, however I’ve just seen...
View ArticleSave harbour agreement threatened?
Edward Snowden’s revelations to the world about the US’ monitoring of communications is the gift that keeps on giving. The Advocate General to the EU Court of Justice has today issued a legal opinion...
View ArticleSpecialist operational teams: a thing of the past?
Almost two and a half years ago I wrote an article about the changing face of recruiting engineers and how vendors were talking about automating the configuration of networks. I had some doubts at the...
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Police misleading the public to pass the Investigatory Powers Bill?
I was browsing twitter this evening when I came across the following tweet, published by an agency that I have a lot of respect for, the National Crime Agency. They’ve been doing some work with Channel...
View ArticleHurting your partners the Basecamp way
I was recently pointed towards this thread on github which I read with growing horror as the thread developed. Now, fair disclosure – I’ve never really liked Basecamp. In the words of an old friend,...
View ArticleTwitter debate
As part of the run up to UCExpo I’m going to be taking part in my first Twitter debate this afternoon (Tweebate?). I’ll be taking over the SIPHON twitter account: @SIPHON_Networks. Feel free to fire me...
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