Twinstan's interesting links roundup on Diigo (weekly)

• The Agile Business Analyst: Seeing the Forest, The Trees, and the Grass…Mostly the Grass! | Robert Galen

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Microsoft is not all bad

As much as I hate to admit it, the guys at Microsoft really do some pretty cool stuff. A couple that have caught my eye recently:

Xbox - project Natal
This is going to be transformational like the Wii



Pivot from Live Labs
This is the kind of data visualisation tool that I love - you can just feel what this is going to mean for managing and traversing large chunks of data and information (think Jonathon Harris' universe - see also previous entry). It build on the wonderful seadragon technology (not that I really understand what that is, but it allows you to zoom in and out of pictures really quickly and I like that - see also this link for great examples).

Bill and Ballmer are not all bad.

Just another blog for kicks

I have been toying with the idea of writing a blog for a while. I even got as far as creating the profile on blogger several times before, but somehow could never bring myself to actually publish anything - after all what do I really have to say and why would I put it online?

Frankly, I still don't have a good answer to either of those questions, but I feel like giving it a go regardless. That is why "Just another blog" seems to me the most appropriate title for this page.

I have a vague desire to publish some things

• about the industry I work in (IT in the telecommunications world),
• about the kind of work that I do (consultancy, analysis, design, project management and the like)
• and about what interests me online (I must confess to having become slightly obsessed with podcasts, vodcasts and feeds of all kinds and most recently with www.ted.org, perhaps the most fantastic source of *consistently* interesting ideas out there).

It is , however, equally possible that I might end up writing about the trials of living as an englishman in Germany, or on my next holiday.

It is odd, but despite this being a theoretically public forum, it feels more like an opportunity to write for myself (indeed that is probably what it will be!) - something I always enjoyed doing as a child, but somehow I got out of the practice.

Well, we will see where this takes me. Thanks for reading.

Welcome to just another blog.