As with so many things, it is not the size of the wand but the magic of the magician that makes the difference.

Self fulfilling prophecies.  Existing customers' purchase habits are used to market next logical product.  This is successful but amplifies the emphasis on existing behaviours to the exclusion of new behaviours.

It...

For me, as a deaf person that sort of thing is a source of considerable stress. IF I can find some contact details, will I have to attempt a phone...

Tough cases make for bad laws.

The problem with the social media platforms is that they amplify stuff and that stuff might be extremely toxic.  Some idiot mouthing off in a...

I think web users have lower expectations than Ye Olde Worlde desktop apps.  They are used to pressing F5 to refresh if stuff doesn't seem to have worked.

If you get...

Once an organisation starts to grow the direct partnerships aren't always visible or communicated to the people who need to know.

An IT department may think that there are 30 partners/service...

"But its not web scale".  Well neither is your market, or your share of the market.  Your market is mature rather than emerging so that isn't going to change any...

I loved the way the summary displayed for Jeff's response under the article was

I agree that ChatGTP operates from a "consensus of opinion that exists in the internet".  While I'm......

You can certainly switch off your DEV environment overnight.  I know of one large company that had an autodestruct at 19:00. You could request a 1 hour extension to your...

There's a thing that Google, AWS and Microsoft all have called the "Well Architected Framework" with 5 pillars (AWS invented a 6th pillar later that seems superfluous).  Those pillars are

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I'm at the stage in my career where I see "Digital Transformation" and want to cross out the "Digital".

There is something about "Digital" that causes people to lose sight of...

A friend started his IT career in the UK tax office.  Got outsourced to 3 difference companies and stayed at the same desk at each change.

My experience with outsourcing IT...

I should like to see this in operation somewhere as I've heard a lot of talk and seen some very expensive sales pitches.

It seems like a more ambitious form of...

I seem to remember that PLE was one of those metrics that you have to use in conjunction with something else and with an understanding of your system.

I also remember...

I'm remembering SQLSlammer.  Many SQL shops got caught out even though they had patched every SQL Server they knew about.

It was the MSDE instances they didn't know about that slaughtered...