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I celebrate the fifth of November as Trillion Dollar Bonfire Night, in the hope that everyone seeks better ways of managing and organising their undertakings.
For centuries the United Kingdom has celebrated the fifth as Bonfire Night, in memory of the foiled Gunpowder Plot, where Guy Fawkes and his associates set out to cause catastrophic damage to the British parliament; an act of terrorism in any age that would have led to calamity.
And yet an equally destructive force, the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, continues to burn its profligate way through those most precious resources: time, effort and money.
I can promise, therefore, that I will be lighting fireworks regularly throughout the year, not just tonight.
The effigy on top of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire is not Guy Fawkes but that of the redundant IT-centric paradigm.
You may also like to read:
- Whitehall Farce is not funny
- world’s largest iT project – more poison pills for Health Service?
See also (for UK readers): http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/11/05/bonfire-night-at-the-treasury-could-go-on-for-months/
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