The Skeptical Informer, November 2007, Volume 1, No. 10

The month was marked mainly by a new flurry of itSMF silliness. I know I know. I'm as over it as you are, but when the guy who is the business partner of the person who wrote the book which didn't need IPESC review even though the other five did, gets elected chair of the same IPESC even though he only sits on IPESC as an invited representative of itSMF not as a nominated country member, just after his partner got elected chair of itSMF International in a hasty election by six sevenths of the Board who had been elected in an election where 42% of nominees were rejected ... well what am I to do? Ignore it? Now I'm not suggesting there is anything illegal, immoral or fattening in any of this, but it is silly. Such lack of good governance from an organisation like itSMF is farcical. And that's not all of it: there is plenty more.

The thing I find most fascinating is the contrast with brother organisation ISACA. Look for a blog in December where I take a fresh perspective on this contrast. We will actually manage to find an upside to all the itSMF slapstick.

Then there is more to explore. As I said on the blog recently, in the past the IT Skeptic has examined such topics as Web 2.0, call centres , VOIP and open source. I'd like to do more but ITIL and itSMF provide such fertile fields. Something to do with what they sprinkle on them...

Elsewhere I've also looked at topics as diverse as geeks, technological complexity, mindless faith in computers, professional mediocrity, corporate "training", and best practice.

The blog will diversify in 2008... promise.

The theme for this month's pictures is "silly"