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A new look for the IT Skeptic, and a note on Excessive Technical Fastidiousness or ETF

skeptic — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:22:12 -0600

Welcome to the new-look IT Skeptic. Nothing major: I took advantage of some standardisation of the underlying infrastructure to do some minor decorating, avoiding ETF.

The winner of the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery photo competition

skeptic — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:55:52 -0600

Competitions are hard work on this blog. You lot need to spend less time working and more time futzing around on websites. Remember nobody lies on their deathbed thinking "I wish I had spent more time working". The winner of the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery photo competition from a small but strong field is

The IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery

skeptic — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:53:23 -0600

[Update: The IT Skeptic's new book is out, and is the prize for best photo in our competition by end of August. LAST DAYS TO ENTER! (if you already have the book you can take a raincheck on the next one!)]

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?)

The IT Skeptic on Dipity

skeptic — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:05:26 -0600

I love the internet. Check this out!

Runtime Google analytics errors

skeptic — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:49:02 -0600

Anyone getting "A Runtime Error has occured" on Drupal.settings.googleanalytics when clicking on links? please leave a quick comment

Introducing Real ITSM, the new ITSM body of knowledge from the IT Skeptic

skeptic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:24:01 -0600

Overwhelmed by ITIL V3? In order to make your ITSM life easier, the IT skeptic has created a body of knowledge (BOK) called Real ITSM and the associated philosophy of Realitsm. The official Introduction to Real ITSM introduces Realitsm to the world!
Making IT Real. Get Real.

Comments are a great resource of this site

skeptic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:10 -0600

Comments are one of the greatest assets of this website. Here is better access to them.

New IT Skeptic blog widget on CMDB

skeptic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:58:53 -0600

There is a new blog widget available for those who would like it for their own website... and it uses an illustration from the new IT Skeptic book.

What a drag spammers are

skeptic — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:52:48 -0600

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.

One more for the Links page

skeptic — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:20:53 -0600

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.