What's This Blog About?

Primar­ily it is my per­sonal blog so it’s a mixed bag. I work with Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy and that’s what you will find me writ­ing about most of the time. But I do have wide ran­ging interests and you could find all sorts of inter­est­ing things here.

Since my job is help­ing people and busi­nesses to use tech­no­logy, I’ll be try­ing to focus on posts that provide inform­a­tion that will be use­ful. Some art­icles will be tech­nical and aimed at sys­tem admin­is­trat­ors or tech­nical users.

About Me

After leav­ing school I stud­ied Mech­an­ical Engin­eer­ing and worked on the design of Phys­ical secur­ity sys­tems (locks to you and me), Med­ical devices and all sorts in between. I’ve been work­ing full time as an IT sysad­min, IT Man­ager (really a sysad­min with a budget) and IT Pro­ject Man­ager since 1994. Now I am a freel­ance consultant.

Staying Calm

“First things first, stay calm” is a quote I took from The Raw Shark Texts, a novel by Steven Hall and It’s a good work­ing prin­ciple when work­ing with tech­no­logy. When tech­no­logy goes wrong people get tetchy, but rush­ing in can often make things worse. Stay Calm.