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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 4 – Remaster 2026

04 Saturday Oct 2014

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By Martyn Richard Jones

Continued from Part 3, which can be found here -> Part 3

“The following week, the full high-powered delegation from The Taffia Connection and BogartSys flies in. It was as if an army had come to do battle with us. Uniformly slick, sullen and tacky. iPhone; laptop; knock-off Marks and Spark’s; check patterns; butt ugly ties; ‘plastique’ shoes; mismatching socks; ‘business’ rucksacks; all weather hoodies; and, worst of all, off-the-peg smirks just begging to be slapped”.

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Essential Principles for Effective Data Warehousing

03 Friday Oct 2014

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Written by Martyn Richard Jones

These are my principles for successful Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. If you don’t like them, I have others. Musings on being led by the nose by experienced practitioners of charlatanry, deception and obfuscation.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 3

03 Friday Oct 2014

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Continued from Part 2 which can be found here -> Part 2

I look over at Crème, who is now staring out the window watching the rain. I cough, theatrically, for effect. “So, Crème, would you like a rest, or do you want to tell us about what happened next?”

“Oh, yes” Crème says, “Sorry, I was wandering there for a while”. She continues.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 1 – Remaster 2026

02 Thursday Oct 2014

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Martyn ‘Rhysiart’ Jones

Spain

It’s Friday morning in Canary Wharf, and I have been asked to facilitate a meeting of a chapel of IT Dogma Suckers and Digital Snake-oil Victims, the self-help recovery chain for people who have fallen victim to the pernicious and debilitating effects of IT dogma and professional rip-offs. Continue reading →

Baby Naming and Religious and Social Trends – Remaster 2026

01 Wednesday Oct 2014

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As legal sources close to the Westminster Bar would have it, an alleged fan of Stewart Lee, a leading English social commentator, writer, director, musician and stand-up comedian, has called on the power of big data outcomes to highlight changing demographics and to place hot-topic issues of people and society in the public forum. Continue reading →

Essential Steps for Successful Data Warehousing

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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Young Einstein was awaiting the birth of his sister. His mother and father had been telling him for months to look forward to having somebody to play with. When Einstein eventually got to see his sister, he exclaimed disappointedly “But, it doesn’t have wheels!”

That happens a lot in IT. Young Einstein had a very good excuse, we don’t.

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Improving IT-Business Communication for Data Success – Remaster 2026

27 Saturday Sep 2014

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In a city centre office block, somewhere in Scotland, the conversation between the IT Business Manager (Bill) and the Information Management Manager (Richie) is in full swing,, Bob is irate because his successfully delivered data mart has been derided as unusable rubbish by the business people it was meant to serve.

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Data Disasters: Lessons from Widget and Wodget’s Failures – Remaster 2026

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

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It’s 9:45 on a cold and wintry Monday morning; crowds of people are huddled around the water fountains as gossip spreads throughout the building like wildfire. There has been a multiple data pile up in the Widget and Wodget data centre, there are a few casualties but no reported fatalities. No one knows what quite is going on, as shadowy rumour hints at flying pigs, rebellious ducks and rolling heads.

It was to be a big day for Widget and Wodget, “your neighbourhood’s favourite Prime Brokers”, it was billed as the Senior Mega Monday to end all Mega Mondays. A mega coup for the hallowed financial institution of W&W; today would be the day that would herald in the culmination of two major IPOs and one multi-billion global M&A deal signed off, as well as the launch of a raft of CDOs.

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