Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

As promised, Enterprise 2.0 camp is coming back in January. This will be a daylong event running true un-conference format. All are welcome, just be sure to bring your ideas, your questions or a conversation you’d like to start regarding 2.0’ing the hell out of business.

What is EnterpriseCampToronto? Think of it as a way to get the enterprise development community together in Toronto in a BarCamp style unconference.

This event focuses on enterprise software infrastructure, solutions and development. Topics could include Enterprise 2.0, Business Intelligence Applications, ECM, Collaboration, Employee Self-Service, Records Management, Enterprise Search, Technology Infrastructure, Workflow Automation – It’s up to you.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

Sign up on the official Enterprise2.0 UnConference page here. As with all barcamp events, to sign up click the “edit page” button at the top of the page and at yourself to the list. Achieving this feat is effectively your “skill testing question” and your only price of admission.

Thanks to Bryce and Navantis for their organizational efforts and donating the venue.

Voice recognition software sure is great sometimes.

Works efficiently and gets easily well over 95% of words and phrases right. it works so well in fact that it loves to lull you into complacence, happily transcribing away at high speed, just before dropping in something of outrageously dada-esque inappropriateness right into some important piece of correspondence you were just reaching for the send button to fire off.

Like for instance as I was sending a quick e-mail asking for something to do with code and a “slightly more complicated” logic this of course is taken to be:

(This one) I caught just in time. Yes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I would like to retrain your understanding of that phrase…

As if you didn’t know, Makamba is the capital city of the province of the same name in the southern part of the central African Republic of Burundi. Clearly, the younger and more lascivious-minded of the population there could be understood to have in common a specific type of deductive reasoning.

So in the future or the past, should you see an e-mail or a post from me that’s a little more haiku than you were expecting, now you know.

And if that headline doesn’t get me click-throughs I don’t know what will.

My latest podcast is up! #5 20 awesome songs for christmas.

A mixture of new and old indie and punk rock classics. Every year I used to burn a CD of punk rock christmas songs (much to the sometimes lamentation of my younger sister, my typical traveling companion of the annual cottage/family-visitation roadtrips).

This time, I’ve spiced it up the classics with a bunch of modern indie xmas tunes (some great stuff this year!) as well as christmas blues and a Tom Waits Christmas Bonus Track… But some of my favourites will always be “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues (the original and a brilliant Stars cover in this mix) and the punk renditions of “12 days of christmas” (the Sex Pistols, clearly, and hillariously, hammered out of their gourd make it as far as number 4…) and of course the hardcore/tongue-firmly-in-cheek punk-christmas anthem “A Gun for christmas” by the vandals.

Click on this thingy to play the whole thing:

Or try these download options:

• The individual mp3 files: Link to directory listing
• As one long 66 minute mp3 file: Link to 66min mp3 audio file (all sequenced and mixed together fancy)
• all 20 songs in “one bigass zip file”: Big-ass zip file

Subscribe to my podcast
Go in to Itunes, select Advanced –> Subscribe to Podcast then paste in this secret address: https://www.thomaspurves.com/music/feed.xml

and remember, you can always find all my music podcast on my podcast page.