hero in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit? Pressure is building up behind a move to managed services at the Naked CIO's company. The outsourcing and offshoring debate rages on. [10 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment Our embattled hero - newly appointed CIO at a largish firm - discovers there's a big difference between home workers and home users… What do staff really do at home with their company machines? A purchase order for a PC lands on my desk. [04 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up Later, Bono is dragged on to tell Gates he can't replace The Edge in U2 just because he got a high score in Guitar Hero. "And now, the end is here And so I face the final curtain. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took his final bow on stage at the CES... [11 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up Basically, our hero's idea is the universe has been recurring endlessly and will continue to do so for all time in a completely incomprehensible way. At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses, German philosopher Friedrich... [16 Nov 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment So how does a CIO stay the hero? There is a danger that this lack of operational engagement creates blind spots that leave a CIO at risk of becoming a victim, rather than the hero of the hour. Even though merger activity is intensifying in every... [25 Sep 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Hollywood fears the geek
Comment Sure, it would be even more interesting to see the hacker as hero of a blockbuster - but it's better to have one as the villain than just the nerdy sidekick, for once. Rejoice! Techies are now so feared by the public they are being cast as the... [18 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.01.06
Round-Up However, Taylor, the techie tragic-hero of the piece, was also forced to give up his pet parrot who refused to stop tormenting him with the name of the man his girlfriend had entertained in his own home. [20 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up Bravo for Bill Gates! No, really. Microsoft has turned the legal screw on former spam king Scott Richter in a court case in New York. A spokesman for the brobdingnagian software company said on Tuesday it had settled a lawsuit against Richter - the... [12 Aug 2005]
Minority Report: Apple revels in podcasting revolution
Comment He scornfully described it in late May as "Wayne's World for radio" - an allusion to the spoof amateur TV show made popular by Mike Myers' goofy hero. In typical opportunistic style, Steve Jobs has jumped on the podcasting wave just as it's cresting. [30 Jun 2005]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment If I have a hero, it would have to be Sir Isaac Newton, partly because he's unquestionably one of the most influential scientists who ever lived, but perhaps more importantly because of a quote he is famous for: "If I have been able to see farther... [21 Dec 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.04.04
Round-Up Empty-handed our desperate hero surveys the rest of the room for an alternative target before trudging home and resignedly making do with his own means - the ageing Pentium 1 his parents bought for him in his grubby digs. [30 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.04
Round-Up But for every Darth Vader there must be a Luke Skywalker and the Hero Award - perhaps the most predictable of the evening - deservedly went to anti-spam campaigner Steve Linford - which is handy, because silicon.com last October identified him as... [20 Feb 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.03
Round-Up The surrender also created an image which would cause great consternation among fans of the comic book hero - the sight of Spiderman being lead away by uniformed police officers. "Spiderman, Spiderman does whatever a spider can.and more besides... [07 Nov 2003]
AS03: The free spirits
Comment Arguably the open source hero of the year, and a man who could be setting an agenda for municipalities the world over, is Christian Ude. From open source advocates to the lowly programmer or activist not in it for the cash, why are 'free spirits... [06 Oct 2003]
Through the fog... Wireless email at work dilemmas
Comment Even if our hero does make it home in time for dinner, will he really be able to switch off from work unless he is disciplined enough to switch off all of his wireless gadgets? The vibrating alert allows our hero to monitor such calls quietly and... [25 Apr 2003]
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