Month: November 2006

  • SAF: Day 2

    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.…

  • SAF: Day 1

    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…

  • How will I die?

    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…

  • 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…

  • A study in class photographs, 1912-2002

    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…