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Game, Set and Match

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Tomorrow’s British Computer Society meeting on information architecture looks good. Or go to the meeting on robotics and health? No, I’m going to be firm and have a life, see the Mile High Penguins and get an early night..

“For two weeks every year, Wimbledon requires an infrastructure capable of supporting half a million spectators, half a billion TV viewers, 5 Million unique visitors to its web-site and the requirements of the world’s media. This unique capability is provided by IBM, who work with Wimbledon throughout the year to drive the business and IT strategy, and provide the technical infrastructure that supports the tournament. Bill Jinks, the IBM lead technical architect, will describe how IT is used to transform the way the club and tournament operate and delivers improvements year-on-year.”

The meeting will take place at the BCS London Offices, 1st Floor – The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA. Register by 3pm today to appear on the list (so it says on the email invite).

The Sentinel

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Saw ‘The Sentinel‘  last night, starrring Michael Douglas (how’s Catherine?). It reminded me that when I started out as a journalist in the South Wales valleys on a short lived title called ‘News of the Valleys’, I worked with a guy called Colin McFarlane who was an ex-sun journo. He was so tabloid he could make up stories, like one time getting me to swing from the top of a water tower and do a picture story titled ‘Towers of Death’. He himself had a quack for it, once telling he dreamed that people were phoning the White House and threatening the President. And yes, when he checked with the White House press office this turned out to be true for the very mudane reason that people who got drunk in deepest ‘US of A’ often decided to give the President a piece of their (drunken) mind.

PS: Colin’s claim to fame is a biography of Tom Jones, titled, ‘Tom Jones; the Boy from Nowhere.’

News of the Valleys, Issue 12, Week Ending 25 August 1991: