From the category archives:

Humor

Some timeless IT/tech jokes, and why they’re still relevant

September 6, 2009

If you’ve been in the information technology industry for a number of years, certain jokes tend to pop up again and again. Why? I’d say it’s because their underlying premises, the things that make them applicable and funny, continue to occur. So even if you’ve heard these before (and that’s probably the case), it’s worth [...]

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CIO pet peeves: small drains on personal productivity

March 26, 2008

I promised a while back to write more about some of the pet peeves I’ve developed in the CIO/CTO role. So here are a few more.
We all have pet peeves. Working as an executive in IT seems to present a lot of opportunities to develop a long list of these. They’re minor grievances, to [...]

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Is there any CIO/CTO out there who is still inclined to answer a desk phone?

January 21, 2008

Just a quick one, this time, in what may become an ongoing motif of describing some of the pet peeves I’ve developed in this role.
For years now, I’ve been unable to answer my desk phone. Or rather, I’ve been unwilling to answer it, at least for calls that I can tell are coming from [...]

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Nightmares before Halloween: bad dreams of the CTO/CIO

October 31, 2007

In honor of the season, I thought I’d share a few recurring nightmares, ones that unfortunately don’t seem to confine themselves to the fall time frame. All of these are chronic worries that have truly kept me up at night; most of them stem from actual real-life situations I’ve encountered.
1. Your CEO calls you [...]

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Watch out: Top 10 statements by IT vendors

August 16, 2007

Enough serious posts for the moment: it’s time for a little bit of humor, hopefully with a moral or two in tow.
About 15 years ago, when I was still a director and not a C-level executive, I worked a great deal with vendors providing services, project management, software development, and so on. In particular, [...]

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