TweetToday is Remembrance Day in Canada (Veterans’ Day if you are in the US), which marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice in World War I on November 11, 1918. Today, this day is used to honor soldiers of all wars. I started a little project last year, after finding my grandfather’s WWI [...]
TweetFor those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have already seen Frank Kemsley’s Journal: the blog of my grandfather’s WWI daily diary from the time that he spent in the Canadian army. I launched it last week on Remembrance Day, and started the regular blogging on November 16th, corresponding to [...]
TweetReally enjoying reading William Gibson’s latest, “Zero History”, which includes some lovely gems of writing such as: He looked down at the screen, the glowing map. Saw it as a window into the city’s underlying fabric, as though he held something from which a rectangular chip of London’s surface had been pried, revealing a substrate [...]
TweetLast night, after a couple of drinks at the SAPPHIRENOW reception, Oliver Marks and I cooked up the idea that it would be fun to make up captions for the huge photos that adorn the Global Communications Center and the rest of the show floor. The photos are really beautifully photographed, but the compositions are [...]
Tagged sapphirenowTweetThanks to all who have noticed my lack of online participation this week and wondered if all is okay. I was downed by a nasty headcold/flu/plague, and have spent most of the week either coughing or sleeping. I appear to be on the mend, since I’ve been able to remain vertical for a couple of [...]
TweetA bit off topic for my usual blogging here, but I spent this afternoon at the initial planning meeting of CrisisCampTO, the Toronto manifestation of Crisis Commons. Although this is happening here and now in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti 12 days ago, Crisis Commons has a broader mandate: We are an international [...]
TweetI’m a strong believer that technology can be a way up for those in financially disadvantaged circumstances: without some computer skills, kids can’t compete in school, and don’t meet the minimum requirements for many jobs. One way that I can help – and probably many of you reading this – is to donate to programs [...]
TweetApparently, Shel Israel’s fact checkers were too busy to actually check facts the day that they proofed page 208 of his new book Twitterville: I am not, nor have I ever been, the mayor of Toronto. After a couple of people alerted me (via Twitter, of course), I hiked over to the local bookstore and [...]
TweetFor those of you who were kind enough to comment on blog posts from the BPM conference in Ulm last week, my apologies for being so late to approve the comments: I’ve been on vacation in Switzerland and Germany since then, and mostly off the internet due to being in small towns with crappy wifi [...]
TweetIf you ever wonder what BPM analyst/architect/bloggers do in their spare time, wonder no more: Ignite T.O. Sandy Kemsley -The Hungry Geek from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo. I was invited to give a presentation at Ignite! Toronto this week, and decided to discuss how I’ve been using social media – Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, blogging – [...]
TweetVia Mashable, I discovered a cool little gadget this morning: Retaggr, which allows me to create a profile page and badge with all my social media links, then embed it on my blog or website: You can click on the links within it to show the content from those sites directly within the badge, or [...]
TweetThere are few things that will get me out of bed early on a wintry Saturday morning. ChangeCamp is one of them: an unconference dedicated to re-imaging (Canadian) government and citizenship in the age of participation. My friend Mark, who is passionate about government, change and unconferences, is one of the ringleaders here, but there’s [...]
TweetBarton George tagged me on the latest internet meme to tell you seven things about me. Given that less than two years ago, I played along with the “five things you don’t know about me” meme, I figure that I only owe you two more: I prefer to go barefoot, or at least sock-less, whenever [...]
TweetDon’t forget: way too many BPM implementations end up as legacy systems.
TweetThis post by analyst relations consultant Carter Lusher, entitled You have to focus on influential analysts even if they are negative or unpleasant, totally cracked me up. There are lots of analysts with attitude, but there are also lots of vendors out there who could use some lessons from Miss Manners: in dealing with vendors, [...]
TweetI’ve been running a mobile device experiment for the past six weeks: since my Blackberry three-year contract ran out, I switched to using a standard mobile phone (with a greatly reduced monthly fee) plus an iPod Touch. I was lucky enough to score a free iPod Touch — BEA’s last marketing blowout at their conference [...]
TweetFor those of you in the conversation at last week’s after-conference drinks about HD digital over-the-air (OTA) antennae, and how my husband built one out of a salad spoon and tin foil, here’s the details (on his blog). And yes, for those of you who read his text, he really did make a working antenna [...]
TweetThose of you who have known me a while will be shocked to hear that I have abandoned my Blackberry: that trusty family of devices that has served me since 2000. My 3-year contract was finally up, and after a few months using the wifi on the iPod Touch that I scored at the last [...]
TweetI love getting presents in the mail, especially ones as cool as this: I met Sebastian Stein of IDS Scheer’s research group and the ARIS BPM blog at the recent BPM conference in Milan, and he was sporting an “I (heart) BPM” button on his lapel. I tried to talk him out of it; he [...]
TweetOkay, I (heart) one geek in particular, who builds HD OTA antennas out of teaspoons and tape measures, and discusses λ/2 with me as if I remember anything from those long-ago electronics courses. Given the chance to review I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, I couldn’t resist — although I am very geeky myself, I’m [...]
