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As I contemplate my personal future and at the age of 65, had discounted going back into IT as a possibility and would have to seek a different ‘trade’, but then I was taken aback yesterday to realise that perhaps I should not have been so hasty, there are still idiots out there complete with loon pants on ! On reflection, I thought that perhaps, I was far too quick on ‘discounting’ the knowledge that I have built up over the years and should review that.

The reality is simply determined by the “business goals” and translating those into ‘business outcomes’ is what IT is all about, the technology is very much secondary. What occasioned this was me writing some comments against an article in the “Indy” on the Coalition Governments Freedom Bill:http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-victory-for-civil-liberties-ndash-and-a-challenge-for-labour-2209670.html#comment-144334168

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There was an article in today’s Telegraph about WikiLeaks and “the hunt for British hackers” which unusually for the Telegraph attracted rather a lot of mushy brain comments about ‘Hackers being heroes’ best describes the drift : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8205029/Wikileaks-haven-for-Julian-Assange-as-British-hackers-are-hunted-by-police.html

As is often the case, the comments from people to the article are more interesting than the actual thing itself and set off a train of thought…

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Apparently in an opinion poll run by the Independent, some 67% agreed with the Conservative view that the State is too large and needs to be reduced in size. The Indy’s view was that the size mattered less than the efficiency of the delivery from Government, a rather odd view and out of touch with the times.

Politicians due to the public generally having the attention span of a gnat or if you prefer Tony Blair, a derivative life form I understand, reduce all arguments to simple slogans of which, “The State is too big” is an example. The real argument is rather more complex and any politician trying to tackle the “size issue” will soon get themselves into hot water if they are not very careful.

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Data is a highly valuable commodity and yet this does not seem to have penetrated the conciousness of the Government and it’s employees which is little short of extraordinary in 2007. The current story of the “Taxman” loosing on two disks, a copy of a database containing the details of 15 million names, addresses, including children, is shocking but what it points to is both a totally wrong culture and bad line management.

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