Date	File	Synopsis	Download
22 Jan 2002	F020122hpcompaq	Thoughts on the HP-Compaq merger	download
29 Jan 2002	F020129ibmrevs	IBM’s revenues compared to those of its major competitors	download
5 Feb 2002	F020205oldpcs	What can we do with discarded PCs?	download
12 Feb 2002	F020212gartner	Gartner’s predictions for 2002	download
19 Feb 2002	F020219sun	Brief history of Sun Microsystems and overview of its current position	download
26 Feb 2002	F020226erp	History of ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SAP Australia’s current strategy	download
5 Mar 2002	F020305wcit	Impressions of the Word Congress on IT, held in Adelaide in late February	download
12 Mar 2002	F020312imaging	History of imaging and document management, with a look at Filenet’s current strategy	download
19 Mar 2002	F020319bugs	Why software has bugs, and why IT is different to other industries	download
26 Mar 2002	F020326bag	Why the Australian government just doesn’t get it when it comes to broadband	download
2 Apr 2002	F020402indians	The Indian software industry, and Infosys in particular	download
9 Apr 2002	F020409studentpoint	A look at www.studentpoint.com.au, a website for university students	download
16 Apr 2002	F020416wayback	The importance of maintaining our electronic heritage, and a look at www.archive.org and the Wayback machine	download
23 April 2002	F020423zone	Australian company Zone and its NASDAQ listing, with musings on the ethics of writing about a company GP is investing in	download
30 April 2002	F020430hurol	A review of Hurol Inan's book "Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Website", and at related issues	download
7 May 2002	F020507numbers	How three different reports measure Australia's IT usage, and how the Govt selectively uses them	download
14 May 2002	F020514idc	IDC's annual briefing and how boring it has become	download
21 May 2002	F020521dbms	Brief history of the DBMS market and how IBM has pulled ahead of Oracle	download
28 May 2002	F020528semweb	The Semantic Web and Tim Berners-Lee's plans for the future	download
4 June 2002	F020604teradata	Why we use so much storage, with reference to US company Teradata	download
11 June 2002	F020611teradata2	Continuing on from last week's piece	download
18 June 2002	F020618skills	Asking the question "Is the IT skills shortage a myth?" Answering it "Yes"	download
25 June 2002	F020625records	How Napster and dowloadable music has made record companies move towards online distribution of music	download
2 July 2002	F020702problems	Problems with service on GP's trip to the US - and how IT has not given us better service	download
9 July 2002	F020709pcbillion	The shipment of the billionth PC and a short history of the PC industry	download
16 July 2002	F020716skills2	Follow up on 18 June piece and the hundreds of emails in agreement	download
23 July 2002	F020723pdacrap	Why GP hates PDAs, and how he organises himself	download
30 July 2002	F020730grid	Grid computing, and an interview with grid guru Dr Ian Foster	download
6 Aug 2002	F020806newhp	The new Hewlett-Packard, and how the merger with Compaq is proceeding	download
13 Aug 2002	F020813iseries	IBM's iSeries, and how it has evolved from the AS/400. How it is underrated and underreported	download
20 Aug 2002	F020820netmad	How GP never ceases to be amazed at the incredible amount of information on the Internet	download
27 Aug 2002	F020827bromley	Obituary for Allan Bromley, computer historian	download
3 Sept 2002	F020903pda2	Follow up on 23 July piece, with particular reference to the Handspring Treo	download
10 Sept 2002	F020919telstra	How Telstra is adopting a Sun architecture, with increased emphasis on thin clients	download
17 Sept 2002	F020917wolfram	A look at Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" and its theories	download
24 Sept 2002	F020924lansa	The success of the Australian-developed Lansa applications development product	download
1 Oct 2002	F021001skills3	Still more on the so-called IT skills shortage, and the element of racism that has crept into the debate	download
8 Oct 2002	F021008msoft	An analysis of Microsoft's suspension of its end user subscription licensing	download
15 Oct 2002	F021015elearning	The current state of play in the elearning market	download
22 Oct 2002	F021022selfserve	The importance of self service as a component of e-commerce, based on Martin Butler's comments	download
29 Oct 2002	F021029autonomic	IBM (and others) move to autonomic computing, where computers maintain themselves	download
5 Nov 2002	F021105allencisco	A review of the Allen Consulting report that shows e-commerce booming in Australia	download
12 Nov 2002	F021112mainframe	Why mainframes are still needed and still used	download
19 Nov 2002	F021119gartner	Gartner's 2002 Symposium and predictions - the real-time enterprise	download
26 Nov 2002	F021126cluster	The Western Sydney IT cluster and why it is a good idea	download
3 Dec 2002	F021203dashboard	The different technologies and philosophies behind "management dashboards"	download
10 Dec 2002	F021210bioinformatics	Bioinformatics - the coming fusion between IT and biotechnology	download
17 Dec 2002	F021217predicts	GP marks himself on accuracy for his 10 IT predictions for 02, made a year ago. Score: 4.5 out of 10	download