Columnists

Too much landfill, too little purpose: CES 2017

Tech sector needs decluttering
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Mark Pesce, 10 Jan 01:56

Slim pickings by the Biggest Loser: A year of fitness wearables

Something for the Weekend, Sir? My little runaway. A run run run run a runaway
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Alistair Dabbs, 06 Jan 10:02

OpenStreetView? You are no longer hostage to Google's car-driven vision

Open Source Insider Deja vu for mapping nerds
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Scott Gilbertson, 14 Dec 11:00

The future often starts as a toy, so don't shun toy VR this Christmas

We won't know the possibilities of VR or any other technology until we play with it
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Mark Pesce, 28 Nov 07:02

BOFH: The Hypochondriac Boss and the non-random sample

Episode 14 Cherry-pickin'? You darn tootin!
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Simon Travaglia, 25 Nov 11:52

You want SaaS? Don't bother, darling, your kind can't afford it

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Perhaps if we club together, we could
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Alistair Dabbs, 25 Nov 10:02

Columnist Roll

Crying manager photo via Shutterstock
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Put down the org chart, snowflake: Why largile's for management crybabies

There's a stink growing out there in agile land: a debate over how to scale up agile in large organisations. Should we put frameworks like SAFe or the most awesomely named DAD in place to scale it? How about LeSS?
Michael Coté, 21 Nov 2016
An upset woman with an empty wallet
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Customer data security is our highest priori- ha ha ha whatever, suckers

Something for the Weekend, Sir? I would like it to be known that mine is bigger than yours. And yours is bigger than everyone else's. Only losers waste their time with small. We do big.
Alistair Dabbs, 18 Nov 2016
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The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers

Although sixty years old, artificial intelligence remained mostly a curiosity until half a decade ago, when IBM’s Watson trounced the world’s best Jeopardy! players in a televised match. At the time, you might have thought nothing of that - what does a game show matter in the scheme of things?
Mark Pesce, 14 Nov 2016
Cat peeks outside cardboard box. Photo by shuttertsock
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A cardboard desk? I won’t stand for it (actually I will)

Something for the Weekend, Sir? This week, I have been worried about getting it to stand up.
Alistair Dabbs, 11 Nov 2016
This Damn War image via Shutterstock
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Fire alarm sparked data centre meltdown emergency

This Damn War Fire alarm tests are a good idea; you generally want the warm feeling that when something decides to combust, you'll be able to tell people about it with a loud ringing or wailing noise.
Dave Cartwright, 10 Nov 2016
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Any questions? No, not you again at the back, please God no

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Toy bears and model aeroplanes. Mini tubs of Pringles. Super-expensive watches that look like rusty bicycle parts adorned with a mashed insects.
Alistair Dabbs, 04 Nov 2016
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Getting your tongue around foreign tech-talk is easier than you think

Something for the Weekend, Sir? I live in a bag-arse.
Alistair Dabbs, 28 Oct 2016