Category: My Evolution

There are few things that make me more nervous than a computer desktop full to bursting with icons. Chaos at its finest. The funny thing is when someone downloads a new file from the Internet and leaves it on the desktop. And then they hide the browser to see the desktop, and it takes them…

I remember my first cruise. We were warned as soon as we boarded: the next morning we would have an evacuation drill. It’s great to be warned when a catastrophe is going to happen. We could only hope that there would be no iceberg in the Mediterranean tonight. And then the steps were explained to…

Testing software is my daily bread. Sometimes for my clients. Sometimes for myself. Sometimes just out of curiosity. To find out what’s on the market that can always give you ideas. When you have the solution somewhere in the back of your mind, often the opportunity arises when you least expect it. What would often…

Why is it so hard for us to remove things we don’t use? To maintain tradition. Because we don’t have to make decisions. Because… A few weeks ago we painted my office. And I took down everything I had on the walls. It looked nice. Although that’s irrelevant to today’s topic. The thing is, once…

“Creation of a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure to host the new Business Intelligence services with outsourcing of IT Managed Services.” No, it’s not a hieroglyphic. It’s part of an IT services offer that a company owner has received. He forwarded it to me by mail asking me if I could review it for him. Which, basically,…

In 1989 I joined a company that had just launched a new computer system to manage travel bookings. In 2013 I left the company. And the same computer system was still handling travel bookings. 24 years. Obviously in IT, as in many other things, but more so in IT, 24 years is an eternity. How…

I don’t understand why, but people really like to complicate their lives. At least with their businesses. And especially with businesses that are not yet up and running. The logical thing to do should be to go to the minimum to get started and, when it is up and running, to see what needs to…

I’ve just got off the phone and that humorous cartoon of a couple of Cro-Magnons sweating and pushing a trolley with square wheels stuck in the ground while saying to another one standing next to them with round wheels in his hand something like “No, thanks! We’re very busy”. I’m pretty sure you’ve seen it.…

Twitter is usually a space for inconsequential messages, motivational quotes and people trying to convince others that they have the absolute truth. It is often difficult to filter out the people who provide something of value… or entertainment… or both. The truth is that in this virtual world of social networks, it seems that little…

I just received a comment to my last post (I was going to say to my post from yesterday, but who knows when you read this). It was the one entitled “Explaining the metaverse” which explained the businesses that are set up with objects that only exist in virtual worlds. The commentary is by Marc…