2007 Diary - week 12

This week I have been on a course for 3 days and also managed to get to an industry meeting one evening, which included an interesting talk and a chance for some networking. These can be useful if you find somebody who is ahead in a particular field and is prepared to share some of the experiences as I did that night, so need to follow that up.
The downside of being away a few days is that you have a backlog of issues to deal with on your return but these are minimised these days thanks to the mobile email device which allows a level of 'finger on the pulse' when out of the office. I have learnt that you do need discipline to know when to use it or you can be 'fiddling' all night!
'Volunteered' to do a CIO pick of the week on silicon.com where I had to pick 5 stories from a massive list of stories that had been reported during the week and comment on them from a business or personal point of view. Took the list home to work on over the weekend and final results is now published here
Had a little bit of fun with it in the end. One of our large rollouts is continuing next week with the next group of users so here's hoping!