Tag: information technology
Ars Electronica
Is it a museum, an exhibition space or an annual festival? Or is it all three? We were none the wiser after our visit!
Net neutrality: the Google-Verizon proposal versus freedom and choice
Notes on the recent Google-Verizon proposals for safeguarding net neutrality.
RUP for user experience professionals
RUP may answer a lot of organisational issues but what’s in it for User Experience professionals?
The generation gap in business IT
It struck me during my afternoon codebreak today that there’s never any good news in IT, is there? So I decided to do a quick poll to see if I was merely having a bad case of the “tech grumps”, the kind that spreads widerife across whole teams of sys admins. Slashdot: 5/19 Computing: 0/3 …
It’s a jungle out there: the formalisation of IT
In the last few years here in the United Kingdom, we’ve seen increased formalisation of IT services in both the public and private sectors. Projects are subject to the PRINCE2 process model, the business of managing IT is rammed into a tight-fitting implementation of the ITIL Framework. There are unfathomable job titles, bigger programmes and …
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Hagia Sophia
One of the oldest churches in the world, the Hagia Sophia has survived invasions, conversions and earthquakes since it was finished in 537AD.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Architecture
Berlin
Living without walls: the city of Berlin thrives on its differences.
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Europe
Relocating to Brussels: the final haul
Moving to Brussels: temporary accommodation, commune registration, parking permits, utilities, rubbish collection, doctors, dentists.
- Originally published: 14 Jul 2008 in Relocation
Ourthe Valley
Bright autumn colours deep in the folds of the Ardennes.
- Originally published: 1 Nov 2009 in Walking
The white stuff
Home of the world’s most famous white beer, Hoegaarden is surrounded by the vast wheat fields needed to brew the stuff.
- Originally published: 14 Aug 2010 in Walking
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.