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I'm a technology consultant, focused on enterprise collaborative applications. I'm based in North-east Scotland but work all over Europe, and sometimes I present at technology conferences using a mixture of deep-technology and humour to keep the audience awake.

I'm married with one grown-up daughter of whom I'm immensely proud, and have family members covering most significant time-zones. We took 'hide and seek' seriously.

Other interests include making excuses not to go to the gym, testing the tolerance of my peers with humour, and sometimes bringing my 20-year old ZZR 600 out of the garage to terrify myself with.

I've been blogging since it was called 'Talking cr@p on the internet' and at one stage hand-rolled my own blog. Fame and fortune for this minor technological greatness is still 'in the post'.

Enjoy my little outpost on the web and take cheer that it could be worse - I could be a Silverlight consultant...

How to get in touch?

I have a mobile phone number which has been unchanged in 15 years. Most folks have that. Or you can try eMailing me - look at the domain name and take a good guess which will work. Most things will. I'm on Linked-In for the business stuff, Facebook for the personal stuff, and Skype for the face to face stuff. 

I'm a freelance consultant, and I'm engaged by enterprise or government customers. Most of the work I do I cannot speak about, so excuse my somewhat clumsy evasions. 

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Thursday
Feb252010

The man who refused to die

Think your having a hard time ? via the BBC

He spent five days and night alone on a barge. By the time he was picked up by a Japanese whaling ship, he was dehydrated, hallucinating and close to death.

He ended up in a camp in mainland Japan. He was there when the war ended. But his prison camp was a few miles from the city of Nagasaki.

 

Reader Comments (1)

Hi Bill,

I was just wondering how you had got on with your battles with O2? i work around Old Street and have pretty much given up using my phone during working hours. I can't use 3g between the hours of 11 and 3 and the coverage in my own home is non existent... an hour long call to o2 last night resulted in the usual 'do a network reset, factory reset and change the sim card ill do all these but will then be told its the phones problem ... again... kinda lost as to what to do next... It kinda bugs me that o2's recommendations to me are not to use 3g!!! guess it defeats the purpose of buying a smart phone with 3g... the other line of 'signal strength is not guaranteed' is also beginning to p1ss me off too!!! Any thoughts or suggestions as to what to do next?

February 26, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteralistair young

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