http://obriend.info Daragh O Brien on Information Quality Management & other issues Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Regular visitors to this blog will know about my trials and tribulations getting a half way decent broadband service that works. After a tormented experience dealing with a useless local service provider who admit to owing me money but haven't gotten around to sending me the cheque (but in fairness, I ... http://obriend.info/2008/08/21/bogger-broadband/ So Batty O'Keefe is flying kites in the run up to the Leaving Cert results. Nice one centurion. He has proposed the reintroduction of college fees for students from families where people are earning an "excellent" salary. He defines this as being somewhere to the north of "anybody on €100,000" ... http://obriend.info/2008/08/12/free-fees-with-every-packet-of-cornflakes/ ...or "Why the f*ck can't I get a decent broadband service in Wexford for love or money?". So, following from my last post (and btw the saga continues off-blog in a reality far far away), I've been looking at my other options for getting zippy fast communications that might allow me ... http://obriend.info/2008/07/04/what-is-the-average-airspeed-of-a-laden-swallow/ This post is an update to the previous post today... I definitely think I'll have to consider the Data Protection request as one of the top dogs in this company I've been dealing with has just emailed me to say that they only had an email address for me from today. ... http://obriend.info/2008/06/27/how-not-to-handle-a-customer-part-2/ So, I've been having problems with my broadband. Problems significant enough that I would suggest that the Dept of Comms actually think through the potential reliance on Fixed Wireless solutions for Ireland's broadband deficit. More on that another time. What annoys me in the immediate sense is the level of ... http://obriend.info/2008/06/27/how-not-to-handle-a-customer/ From Don Carlson, one of my IAIDQ cronies in the US comes this YouTube vid from Informatica (a data quality software tool vendor) that sums up a lot of why Information Quality matters. Of course, I could get snooty and ask what gave them the idea to juxtapose Information Quality and ... http://obriend.info/2008/06/10/an-iq-trainwreck/ When I was a small child, my grandmother used to entertain me and my siblings by getting us to sing and dance the hokey cokey, a playful little song and dance routine if ever there was one. This dance was brought to mind yesterday when Fergal of the Tuppenceworth bloggers emailed ... http://obriend.info/2008/05/21/the-electoral-register-hokey-cokey/ There is an old saying that the word "Assume" makes an "Ass" out of "You" and "Me". Yet we see (and make) assumptions every day when it comes to assessing the quality (or otherwise) of information. Anglo-Saxon biassed peoples (US, English speaking Europe etc) often assume that names are structured Firstname ... http://obriend.info/2008/05/15/telephone-numbers-and-information-quality-the-risk-of-assumption/ TwentyMajor isn't the only blogger in the pay of a publisher (I'm conveniently ignoring Grandad and the others as Irish bloggers are too darned fond of publishing these days. If you want to know who all the Irish bloggers with publishers are then Damien Mulley probably has a list)! I ... http://obriend.info/2008/04/30/right-the-blog-has-been-name-checked-by-my-publisher/ Regular visitors to this blog will know that I always appreciate stuff wot does work. Be it the excellent OnlineMeetingRooms to a humble bluetooth keyboard, I am a ferverent champion of kit that humbly bows its head and goes about doing what it sez on the tin in a competent ... http://obriend.info/2008/04/29/stuff-wot-does-work/