I heard somebody recently having quite a vocal rant against Facebook in the light of the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.  Although he didn’t participate in the personality test that gave the company access to 87 million users’ data, he was […]

[Image courtesy of Steve Snodgrass at Flickr Creative Commons] I’ve been reading a lot lately about smartphone addiction.  Not because I’m in any danger of being addicted to mine. I realised quite some time ago that I was in an […]

Three things caught my eye this week. But first, a digression… Years ago, I was in a restaurant with my boss and a group of colleagues. My boss was pretty fearsome, and took no prisoners when it came to service. […]

So there you have it. The all-singing, all-dancing, everything’s-connected National Health Service IT system is to be ‘dramatically scaled back’ (i.e. quietly scrapped). Mind you, I could have told you that. For two reasons. First, I got a bad feeling […]

“I don’t care what it takes, as long as it gets me to the top” said the woman with the big hair and the satin blouse, jabbing at me with her glass of sauvignon blanc. Networking was never so much […]