First ever blog

Well, what do people say on their first blog?

Legal IT, what's that all about, I suppose for a lot of people who work in IT a job is a job, but I must say that the experience of working in a partnership (and a large one at that) has been quite an education. I've been in IT since 1984 after getting my Computer Science degree at Wolves Poly. The last 10 years have been with a UK based major international law firm and its the best and worst job I have ever had ;-)

I always say to new recruits that it takes 6 months to get your head around the politics and a further 6 months to discover where you fit in to the picture. Many have fallen by the wayside, I'd like to think those who have not listened to my advice but that would be a little cocky to say the least. Lets say "only the strong survive!".

Radio - I am a radio amateur (G4V**) and enjoy listening to radio stations from all over the world, originally using shortwave and medium wave but more recently via satellite and the Internet but to be honest you can't beat good ol' AM radio!

Travel - born & live in the UK but love Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia.

Music - born to rock, I'm a "Dead Head" at heart and on a visit to San Francisco in the 1990's I made a pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury

I have a 40GB iPod and its full - OK, not all music, lots of BBC Radio podcasts and a growing number of Gartner audio CD's - but more of that in the future.

Work - Enterprise Architecture - I worried for months that I was a fraud and that people who knew a lot more about the subject were giggling behind my back - guess what - they aren't and I now know why - it's because they don't know either! Its a black art and it is what ever you make it!