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Business Analysis : The Flintstone Effect

Business people have problems.  The other thing they have is existing infrastructure: things, people, technologies, systems, teams, policies and so much more. And infrastructure, being part of the environment, informs not just what unfolds within that environment but how people think about what can unfold within that same environment.
This becomes spectacularly apparent when the infrastructure [...]

wolfram’s search engine is kinda neat…

So since I live under a rock, I didn’t know about google’s fledgling competitor: wolfram’s  own search engine. Check it out…
You can tell it’s early days, but it’s kind of neat that it also takes equations ( I know… all that raw computing power and all I could think of was  sin(x) ), not just [...]

akismet woes…

[updated]. I have loved akismet up until now, but its incredible ability to hose up and hang the rest of my blogware whenever it isn’t happy has meant I’ve had to kick  it out of the playpen every once in a while.
My hosts had some libcurl issues which caused akismet to have a software app’s equivalent [...]

crimeware : your enemy’s enemy… is your best friend?!

Oh-hoh!!! WELL. I always figured this would happen. It’s been happening for a while, apparently, and it might be scant comfort for anyone left struggling with the dregs of a post-striated internet.
So the swarm of malware being volleyed over firewalls everywhere might just have a reckoning of an unexpected kind ahead of them: increasingly, infiltrating the [...]

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part I

In a short series of 3 nibble-sized posts, I’m going write about some of the things I’m learning about a rapidly expanding field: Enterprise intranets – specifically the inclusion of social media platforms with the attendant folksonomies and enterprise search functionality.
First off, I should declare my stance: I am a social media luddite. I am [...]

virulent clouds: crimeware-as-a-service

Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and… well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing:
http://malwareint.blogspot.com/2010/01/crimeware-as-service-and-antivirus.html
And it makes sense, doesn’t it? Line up the current vanguard of antivir sniffer dogs in the cloud, toss up evil binaries to see which sniffers pick up the scent. [...]

I’d vote for FlashDevelop, myself…

I’m just excerpting my email response to one ‘Abe’, who used my contact form when I wasn’t looking and whose email therefore has languished for a few weeks elsewhere in a barely-looked-at account… I hope it will help the others who keep turning up at my flex/eclipse* article from ages ago:
“That article was written a [...]

handleTheImpossible(*state snafuState){ /*hmm…*/ }

WP (Wordpress) was being supremely annoying the other day…  all the earlier drafts of a certain post kept clamouring for attention and I just wanted to say, *I know*… but this is the version I want for my post. Now will all you others just GO AWAY.
I wasn’t getting anywhere so I decided to force the [...]

An hour in the sky: Google Wave, Sound Cloud.

Quickie post, as I am trying to curb my stay-up-late habits:
Because I live under a rock, the first I’d ever heard of ‘Google Wave‘ was when my friend Hazera told me to jump on it. Only she couldn’t exactly invite me, because, well… there were no invites to be had. So I did something I [...]

Failure nets : the ‘dark matter’ of complex systems

A thought:
Complex systems are prone to fail and, knowing that, we build into them every manner of defense against such outcomes. If we consider complex systems as networks, with the number and variety of nodes of any type being some sort of measure of overall complexity, the nodes, edges and paths all hold a binary [...]

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