Delighted to say that a new book-format edition of my 1986 monograph “Inventing Reality: towards a magical technology” has just been released. It’s available from Grey House – GBP7.95, http://www.greyhouseinthewoods.org/inre.htm Publisher info is as follows: Grey House in the Woods …
More enterprise-architecture stuff. Plodding on with Function Model development for my current client – this model being the business anchor for a whole string of other models such as the Business Systems Model, the Information Systems Model and so on …
Hadn’t realised how much I’d been pinning my communication hopes on getting some kind of mobile always-on connection: yesterday’s ‘Declined‘ seems to have triggered my first serious downer for months. To put it simply, I hate being out of touch …
Struggling with dial-up has been driving me nuts, so I’ve been researching wireless alternatives. Best I could find was Vodafone, at AUD150 for the card and AUD$30-50 for the monthly fee. Good job I checked before buying the card, because …
Heading homeward after the TOGAF enterprise-architecture conference in Paris. Went well, I think – which it needed to, given the frightening amount of money I spent to get there from Aus! A sense that the field is in somewhat of …
A well-dressed businessman in the queue in front of me at Liverpool Street, apparently asking for money from the middle-aged couple in front of me. “Two pounds, that’s all I’m askin’. I just wanna get home!” They look at him …
Okay, it’s probably just running-on-overload, but it hasn’t exactly been a wildly productive time this weekend. I did at least finish off the Powerpoint for the TOGAF Paris conference, but I still have a few more tweaks to do to …
I’ve grabbed some time off over the Easter break to go visit friends, pick up some essential items from storage, and generally have an attempt at being human again. Good to meet up at old places, like the regular Saturday …
Rushing to finish off both the book and the presentation in time for the TOGAF Paris conference, but I do need to do something else to maintain sanity between over-long sessions at the keyboard! In my case the main sanity-saver …
Another weekend gone, but the revised draft of the enterprise-architecture book is up on the Tetradian site here. (Warning again that it’s large: more than 2.8Mb in PDF form. Let me know if you need the .DOC instead.) Main changes …