Bushfires
I moved back to Britain a bit more than a couple of years ago; prior to that I’d spent almost the whole of the previous twenty years in southern Victoria, first in Melbourne, then at a more country location in …
Category: The Outsider
General notes on being an Outsider in many different ways
Happy-whatever for you, I hope?
Today is a holiday of sorts, I guess, though in my case it doesn’t have much meaning. I don’t regard myself as a christian: early in my life I learnt first-hand the utter hypocrisy of the church – and organised …
Stale
Perhaps it’s just the gloom of an English winter. More likely it’s just me. I just feel stale. Worked flat-out last week to get the essay for Time & Mind done – which I did, yesterday, after overshooting the deadline …
Wolfed
Still recovering somewhat from a thoroughly nasty run-in with a guy named Wolf, on an on-line list about future vision for enterprise-architecture. (For obvious legal reasons, I’d probably better not give any more details than that.) To give some idea, …
Architecture versus design
Been re-reading Len Fehskens’ presentation “Re-thinking architecture” [may require login] at the last TOGAF enterprise architecture practitioners conference in Munich. His intro [public] indicates at last a fundamental shift in thinking about enterprise architecture, away from the inane IT-centric world …
TOGAF Munich
As mentioned in a previous post, I decided at the last moment to go to the TOGAF Munich enterprise-architecture conference. Kind of a wild one-day dash – up at 3:30am; 100kms there and back to Stansted; two hours each way …
Running away
I’ll admit it: I’m running away. This would-be holiday has instead been more like an endurance-test often verging on the kind of nightmare that won’t stop but also won’t let you wake up. What it certainly hasn’t been is either …
Free internet in Portugal
A quick note about Internet in Portugal. Wi-fi is available in the larger hotels, such as the Ibis chain at which I often stay, but it is not free – in fact an absurd €5/hr or €20/day (i.e. more than …
Fado at Coimbra
Just spent a couple of days in the university city of Coimbra, roughly in the centre of the country. Last time I came through here, all manner of serendipitous matters occurred – good cafe conversations, a play, a Brazilian comedic-poet, …
A bit dispirited
Once again been brought face to face with my failings as a theorist, a writer, a publisher, in some senses even as a human being. Just had another really solid reminder that I don’t fit here, in any sense – …