All articles by Guy Clapperton

Guy Clapperton

Getting ahead of yourself

This morning I was speaking about technology on BBC Radio Leicester – always nice to be invited – and the…

What your system says about you (or what people are saying about your system)

I write about computing systems a great deal and one thing that hits me particularly hard is the tribalism that…

Time to switch off?

This is a good week. I have started to claim my life back. “Software defined” may be a big thing…

Buzzword Bingo

I’m just off a webchat on technology and one of the biggest points that came out of it was that…

What’s in a name?

One of my favourite things is collecting some of the silly job titles people give themselves when they’re trying to…

Budget: Think like a Minister

This is no place to get all party political but did you see the look in Iain Duncan Smith’s face…

Efficiency is not a nice to have – from the chip to the shell it is a constant pursuit

The environmental pressure group Greenpeace wants all data centres to be green. Easier said than done and an aspiration that…

The tech that used to be the future

In the 1960s we all thought we were going to have flying cars by the year 2000 (but not that they’d drive themselves).