Month November 2006

SAF: Day 2

The Architecture Last Mile, Norm Judah In Microsoft’s view, the last mile is the end-user device, and they believe this is an area that has not received enough attention. Norm made a couple of observations. First, billions of end-user devices…

SAF: Day 1

Hosted by Microsoft at their Redmond campus, the Strategic Architecture Forum [1]is intended to offer an arena for discussion, among the 250 architects from large enterprises and the 100 Microsoft architects in attendance. There were attendees from around the world;…

How will I die?

Well, that cannot be answered in definitive terms, but certainly the probable causes can be stated and it is these that are summarized in a report from the National Safety Council (click on the image to enlarge). Of course, the…

Iraq: The Hidden Story

This 48 minute, Channel 4 (UK), documentary covers the state of the reporting of the war in Iraq. While we all hear of the number of people killed each day, the details of the terror–the personal impact on daily life–are…

A study in class photographs, 1912-2002

As a result of a conversation I had last week on reaching 50, and how that event might be a point for reflection, over the last few days I have posted a series of my school photographs. The photographs are…