I was just about to delete the two hundred and second bit of spam commenting when I thought: no, let the folks see this crap.

So look at this. Illiterate. Useless. Insultingly stupid. I clean this stuff up regularly like puppy piddle.

An IT Skeptic has gotta love a website called IT Project Failures so a special thankyou to Terry Doerscher for pointing us to it. It is a fascinating read. Nice to see SAP featuring at the top today - what a surprise.

One more for the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery. Remember we have a competition on. Best photo in an IT Skeptic t-shirt or cap (or even waving a mug) by end of August gets a free copy of the upcoming Real ITSM book. This shot is of Mike Walter, President, Atlanta Local Interest Group, itSMF USA.

OK I know the ad block to the right here is not exactly in keeping with the aesthetics of the site, but regular readers will know that this whole blog is one long experiment in web publishing, so sorry we'll live with it for a while.

Readers of this website can be assumed to have a certain non-conformist spirit and at least a modicum of independent thought, so "Rogues Gallery" is an appropriate name for images of readers. send us your photo wearing an IT Skeptic T-shirt or cap, or waving an IT Skeptic coffee mug Wally-fashion, and you can join the Rogues Gallery of IT Skeptics.

Best photo contributed by end of August wins a copy of the IT Skeptic's new book (gotta be out by then, surely?)

Sorry about the outages over the last 24 hours. WestHost has had a power problem. It is one hiccup in normally superb service. Wonder who their UPS manufacturer is eh?

I thought I'd add a suggested soundtrack to the IT Skeptic blog

In response to popular demand, now you can choose your ITILearner mug, cap, badge, mousepad or clothing in the colours of your country's Learner Driver symbol. C'mon, own up!

TO ALL REGISTERED USERS OF THIS WEBSITE: Please bear with us as we bed in a new subscription system for this website - the system that sends you notification emails.

The IT Skeptic's trip to the Netherlands for the itSMF conference did not cause noticeable interruption to this blog, but the subsequent trip to New Zealand's Southern Alps did. No internet, no mobile phone, no earth-phone, no mailman ... heaven.