Check this: Now supporting the Pound! You can now subscribe to Plaxo Premium using your hard earned Great British Pounds. Start your free 30-day trial You can now pay for your Plaxo Premium subscription using Her Majesty's currency. Plaxo Premium includes a full set of tools that help you keep your calendar and contacts accessible, organised and safe. * Remove duplicates from your calendar and address book* * * Sync with your Windows Mobile phone* * * Automated backup and recovery... Read Full Story

Congratulations to Peter Ryan, newly promoted EVP for Sun's Global Sales and Services organisation (GSS). Peter has recently led the combined AMER Sales organisation (AMER stands for 'Americas') over the last year and a half, and prior to that he very successfully led the EMEA Sales organisation as EVP for the region. Having worked with Peter during his tenure as EMEA EVP I'm sure he'll be looking at fresh ways to engage with our customers, as he is immensely customer focused, with a real... Read Full Story

My haiku Washed up Love you Back soon Sent via text from the 6.10 am train to London whilst rushing off to work last week, I thought it was kind of cute, can't say Donna agreed though... not particularly sure it counts as a haiku either, c'est la vie... Read Full Story

I promised a couple of months ago to do a review of the 2008 Turing Lecture, but I've changed my mind, and here's why... Basically I enjoyed it so much I think you should see it yourself, here's the link from the IET.tv site, so go to it. 2008 with James Martin Read Full Story

The title of the post says it all: here's all the very best to Shez Rawsthorne-Houghton who's recently been appointed CTO for Sun's Global Services Practice. Shez is based out of the UK, having spent a number of years working in the UK organisation prior to moving into corporate, and is a fellow blogger. Here's hoping that she will still have time to write blog posts, especially about her most frequent subjects: ITIL, Service Management and Farming. Congratulations Shez! Read Full Story

Finally my new glasses have arrived. I say finally, but that really not fair, they only took a week. I've been having more headaches lately, and increasingly painful ones, and it was pretty obvious that it was my eye sight letting me down. It's been at least fifteen years since my last pair, and they had held out for a fair while, but I could tell my sight had been degrading. Worse than I thought though, I've been told I need these for anything that takes concentration, including... Read Full Story

A number of reasons drove me to redesign the site, in part due to frustration with the existing one and inspiration to try something different. My main frustrations were due to the fact I was posting a wide range of material whose messages I felt were getting mixed up. One of the criticism's people had of my blog was that it jumped around between high (detailed overviews of UK Gov. G2G sysetms) and low brow (walking the dog) too quickly. It had been my original intent to go with this... Read Full Story

I'll be presenting tomorrow at the "Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2008". As usual this Enterprise Architecture (EA) Practitioners Conference is being hosted by the Open Group, the custodians of the extremely popular TOGAF EA Framework (it stand for "The Open Group Architecture Framework"). TOGAF is currently used by 80% of the Forbes Global Top 50 companies, and has emerged as a leading framework amongst Enterprise Architects for developing information systems... Read Full Story

Here's a free, as in beer, Blog Directory and Search Engine Site Submitter I wrote which works by sending out an XML-RPC Blog Ping. "In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates... Read Full Story

Just been listening to BlogTalk Radio, who've kindly been hosting a number of slots for us on our Sun Startup Essentials programme in conjunction with WebMission08. Web Mission 2008 sees twenty UK web2.0 startups traveling to San Francisco and exploring new opportunities for growth with key people across Silicon Valley. Sun are a key Technology partner for the event and it is being covered by Sun's local expert on Startups (based in the UK and beyond), Stewart Townsend. More on the UK... Read Full Story