Robert Ford

Articles by Robert Ford

Driving in the U.K. as simple as your PC

“Too many roads in too small a space.” That’s what I was told when I finally arrived to my hotel near Glasgow after driving...

Data protection and the pursuit of evil-doers

Black comedy was perfected when George W. Bush began using the term "evil-doers" to refer to those who do nasty things to Americans.

A short lesson in fear mongering

Since computer systems by themselves don

Professional designations for the needy

In the past I have been cynical about the Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.) designation that the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) is promoting as a way to imbue the IT industry with some professional standards.

Getting your back up over backing up

The reason no one does data backups is because it's ghastly. Normally I don't like to reveal my ineptitude, but when you add my uselessness to the utter crap we call backup software, you end up with, at best, a potential disaster.

How to make the clients smile

Anyone in the IT business who thinks the high wages and rates from the 1998

Make the pain stop, please

One happy day I was trying to book some tickets to the local Shakespeare production of A Comedy of Errors.

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