I have been asked by many people both inside and outside of Sun whether or not I blog I normally come up with one of two excuses "I dont have the time" and "I dont have opinions".

Well firstly I figure if Jonathan and Scott can make the time, I should be able to and secondly anyone who knows me knows I am not short of opinions nor the ability to voice them!!

So what will I blog about, what do I care about!

I have old-fashioned ethics, I want to do the best job I can with everything I do. I want Sun to be the best it can be (and better). This quest for "the best" has lead me to an unnatural interest in Industry Standards and best practice; ITIL, cobIT, BS15000, ISO20000, ISO17799, ISO9000:2000 to name a few. So no surprise I have set up a category for Best Practice and intend to talk about the relative merits or otherwise of different industry standards.

I have spent most of my career as a consultant of one type or another and feel strongly about providing real solutions to customers business problems. So I have set up an IT Consulting category.

I have also set up a Personal category as I know many people are interested in my quite unusual life style........more on that later.