Conference season is upon us in the Information Quality Community… At the end of September I’m off to Las Vegas to deliver a presentation at the IAIDQ’s North American conference the IDQ 2007 Conference. At the end of October I’m off to sunny London for the IRMUK Data Management and Information Quality Conferences. This will …
So for shits and giggles I decided to google Dell Hell and Ireland. (The wife is out for the night, I’m bored, it seemed like a good idea at the time). http://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLF_en-GBIE226IE228&q=dell+hell+ireland To increase the sample size, I removed the reference to “Ireland” and instead googled for “Dell Hell Information Quality”… frack me, there I …
Dell Hell Ireland (and other flavours) on Google Read More »
The other guy’s story Came across this on Tom Raftery’s blog. Looks like Tom’s guest writer Frank P had ‘issues’ with Dell when trying to buy some kit off them. A barrier had been created that prevented him from buying a machine from the UK Dell outlet store simply (it would seem) because the UK …
Dell Hell… but not mine, but perhaps a different circle of the same techno hell Read More »
The IAIDQ, an organisation I’m involved in for Information & Data Quality, has launched IQTrainwrecks.com as a resource to collate and comment on media stories highlighting the cost and impacts of non-quality information. Here’s an example of one of their posts. Our Electoral Register features there as do a few other stories. The IAIDQ team …
Astute followers of the recent General Election in which there were a number of reports of problems with our national electoral register will doubtless be wondering where my comments on that issue might be. Rest assured that I haven’t forgotten about it and am working on collating the media reports of issues and tracking down …
The first bit of doubt Various Dell representatives have explained to me my problem as being one of how my graphics card uses hypermemory. However that doesn’t resolve the issue that I the option I selected when building my machine was for a card with 256MB dedicated video RAM – the fact that it could …
What are the odds? In the week that scientists tell us they have discovered a planet that might support alien life, I got a response from a live person in Dell. And not in their off-shored outsourced Call Centre neither… this one was from ‘Dell Central’. Rick (for that is his name) reached out to …
What the Dell… an actual response… from a human!! Read More »
There is an election in the offing here in Ireland. However there are (or rather should be) some concerns still about the quality of the electoral register. Over on the IQ Network site there is a short article about the importance of timeliness of information as a measure of its quality and accuracy.. An important …
I’m frankly baffled. We are in the run up to a General Election here in Ireland. All the media pundits are quoting 24th May as the date of the (as yet unannounced) election. This would require our parliament to be dissolved at the latest next week. Ireland runs a Proportional Representation/Single Transferable Vote system. It …
What the…? – Irish Political coverage ignores the Elephant in the room Read More »
Deary me. Life with Dell just gets better and better. Not 2 hours after I finish writing up my experiences for the IAIDQ Q2 Newsletter then I find myself on the phone to a nice guy from Dell who is asking me about my DVD drive issues (phone call at 15:25 today approx). I had …