October 15th 2009

Been something of a slow day at work and its one of those times where I have 15 minutes which is to little time to start something new but to early to go home. Mostly I'm not to shy about leaving early as I always put in the hours elsewhere but today it does not feel right.

Somehow the world feels like its in high definition today, the office view is always changing mainly because I have an exciting view of the highway. Traffic looks fairly light so I hope to avoid the hour long que's that can sometimes delay the way home. Since I quit smoking for the 1000th time the journey home is the worst time as there is nothing else to do. Lucky for me I have something of a soar throat and a bloked up nose so the very idea of smoking just makes me want to be sick. On the whole I'd rather feel fine and not want to smoke as well but this will do for now.

Been a fairly interesting day work wise lots of things moving which is always good. I guess one of the things about being one of these theory planner types (I'd not call it strategy some might) is its always interesting when something floats by that you noticed in the flow years before. The folks in IT always talk about this will be the year for bla bla bla and mostly its just standard industry hype cycles. In the 1990's I was entused by IPv6 but it never seemed to want to take off but thats when I was an engineer who got excited at the prospect of a new protocol stack. As my career changed and I became more concerned with delivering global applications the reality of latency and inconsidered application design really started to hit home. The SuperJumbo started to look a promising way of deliverying certain types of functionality without the need to educate coders on how to design for applications that have to work half the world away. The prospect is tantalizing but like so many things in the reality of IT a number of events must come to pass before this is part of our reality.

Its an important capability but nobody cares about it and to be honest nobody should. I recall 7 years ago pitching this to our CIO with all the benifits (nothing to do with addressing) and his main concern was what cudos would the division get for doing it. I'd never looked at the world that way until then, the answer of course is none. We would have spent a fortune, cause operational disruption with no tangable benifit, well nothing the Business Folks could touch.