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Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Author, Speaker and Internet Guru. All views represented here are his and his alone!

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

When was the last time you sat through an excellent talk where the speaker didn't read through their bullet points? it is a rare skill to achieve, with so few practicing it.
Monday, 21 July 2008

With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.
Monday, 21 July 2008

How is Sergey funding family members from Google? What is Google up to with their Android development? All under the covers stuff. Well not quite, but we do love a good conspiracy don't we?
Saturday, 19 July 2008

With the new Hellboy movie about to hit our screens, check out the viral videos that have been floating around. Extremely funny.
Monday, 7 July 2008

Our NHS is 60 years old today, and it is one of the shining examples of why we call it GREAT Britain.
Wednesday, 2 July 2008

How do you fancy a remote control car but with camera! Just think of the fun you could get up with!
Sunday, 22 June 2008

What if the BBC Doctor Who got remade in America, what would they change? And would it be for the better?
Friday, 20 June 2008

My son spotted this lego animation based on an Indiana Jones story line. Very funny stuff.
Sunday, 8 June 2008

Another great example of poor UK customer service with the computer retailer MESH Computers. Follow the tale of 2 computers, one from DELL one from MESH, ordered around the same time. Its sorry reading for MESH.
Sunday, 16 March 2008

A couple of very funny Jack Nicholson YouTube videos have popped up endorsing Hillary Clinton as president.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Sender Policy Framework, SPF, is a simple way to let mail servers know if the email that is coming from your domain is actually legal or not. I compiled a small list of SPF users and it may surprise you.
Friday, 4 January 2008

Jools Holland has just finished in Glasgow and after a couple of hours of non stop, foot tapping, hand clapping, hips wiggling music, I am in awe of what a humble piano can do.
Sunday, 9 December 2007

Isn't the telephone the most awful devices? Like a spoilt child it demands our attention. But we are as much at fault, for giving in to its demands. Well you don't have to put up with it. Take back
Sunday, 2 December 2007

After spotting a sheep stranded, legs straight in the air, my wife, hops the fence and goes and helps the beast.
Monday, 29 October 2007

A collection of videos from the popular Les Miserables, including a very funny rendition in Lego!
Friday, 12 October 2007

I love Skype. But did you know, that BT, with your good old fashioned land line, is actually cheaper to make international calls?
Thursday, 4 October 2007

Asterpix shows us what we can now do with online video from the likes of YouTube and MySpace. Live in-video bookmarking!
Friday, 28 September 2007

Do not get seduced with promises of UNLIMITED service. It is very much LIMITED and do not let them tell you otherwise. An exchange with T-Mobile seems positive though.
Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Yahoo! will acquire Zimbra for approximately $350M
Tuesday, 18 September 2007

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