Catch up

• Went to a thing called the Eden Project down in Cornwall. Basically a bunch of gardeners have taken a barren, exhausted china clay pit and created a mega "garden" with two massive Biomes (one of which is the biggest greenhouse in the world) and millions of plants. Technically brilliant, but no-one told me what was going on / the only explanations were in such small writing and such detail that you couldn't be bothered to read them. In other words, just like most IT systems from the business point of view, bloody clever but what's it do, and could I have the reports in a language I understand please?
• Had dinner/lunch with CIOs in Brussels, Warsaw and Frankfurt. We talked about issues like Time to Market and Aligining IT and business, because we recently commissioned a couple of independent reports, and we wanted to see customers' reactions. Here's one of them, I'll stick the URL in for the other one when it's finalised.  I've always been of the opinion that European IT managers try to squeeze every last drop out of their investments, whereas the US culture is a little more towards technology being the solution to verything in the world. Agree / disagree?
• Great new word I learnt - emetophobia - sufferers will go to any length to avoid encountering something that might cause them to be sick. In my case Big Brother, any TV soap, rotten service etc.
• I get very confused nowadays by what is politically correct and what isn't. For instance, I read that failure is incorrect - now it's a deferred success! Try that one with your boss / the business / the customer!!