Ken Hanley

Got an e-mail recently from a good friend in France

On a charitable day, I'd say that the way we name IT projects isn'tnignorant, merely misguided.

Here's what I'm thinking: maybe we've overestimated the importance of ournindustry a little bit. Maybe we've forgotten that everything new becomesnold at some point, and that every industry, and I mean every industry, hasnto mature eventually.

The Tonto of that song always reminds me of the great symbol of our information age

The Thanksgiving weekend was cool and clear here in Calgary, presenting me with a great opportunity to get out for a long walk. And a long walk on a Thanksgiving weekend presents a great opportunity to think about the things we

Max Frisch, a twentieth-century Swiss writer, once defined technology asn"...the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it." Inwas ready to dismiss those words out of hand, and then I picked up thenpaper, and what Max said came back to me.

He doesn't need anything but XML, or the programming language du jour, or technical magazines or discussion groups about his language of choice. And Jonny doesn't seem to want to read anything else either.

Remember that classic line from the Charles Dickens novel,