Stories by Linda Kennedy

This month's column comes to you courtesy of a rather liquid dinner party a couple of weeks ago at Chez K.

On September 7, 1974 my second son was born. I'd wanted two children, so that particular project had been brought in on time and on budget.

Happy 2007 — here's hoping it will be a very good year for all of us. If nothing else, it will certainly be a notable year for CIO: locally we'll mark our 10-year anniversary and the US mother ship will observe a score.

Or how I was not tickled pink this holiday season.

If projects today are largely labelled business projects, and not IT projects, then it's time the business starts taking it on the chin when it can't get IT right

Everyone's entitled to their opinion (well, unless you're a liberal of the US ilk being interviewed on Fox News).

I'm at risk of turning into a one-trick pony here

E-mail is a luxury you can't afford to do without

Want more women in IT? Then stop treating them like sheilas

The hills are alive with the sounds of Gen-Yers, with the same gripes that have been mooted for a thousand years . . .

When you reach 100 a bit of navel-gazing is allowed

I don't want you, I don't need you - and now I can make you walk out that door (at least if I have fewer than 100 workers)

According to our State of the CIO 2006 respondents, the overwhelming backlog of projects is their number-one barrier to their success as CIOs. Could that be because the business buys into so-called solutions with the same level of forethought that I did in a recent purchase?

Boy did I hit a nerve. In almost nine years of rabbiting and rambling, I have never experienced a response like the one to my last editorial, "School's Out".

Declining ICT enrolments at unis. CIOs who can't find qualified staff. Australian Computer Society membership numbers down. Young women avoiding IT like 80s leg-warmers