Ivor Macfarlane

Ageing service management pontificator and author. Mostly retired, occasional ITIL or Devops trainer.

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@stephenmann My job title at IBM in 2007-2009 was service management evangelist. Involved lots of talking to folks all round the world. I’ve had worse jobs.

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@DrJaninaRamirez Why try and fix what isn’t broken. Black is the new black.

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@TigayBarry @RepMTG And did the American people support agent orange and the destruction in Laos and Cambodia? And did that make them all culpable?

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@wmarybeard I passed my test in 1970 by reading a number plate. Now living in Portugal and have to take proper eye test and get assessed by doctor every two years to renew licence. It’s tedious to have to do but obviously good sense. We cope.

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@mpscomms @LBFlyawayhome Maybe that’s why they are only taking one child?

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@LBFlyawayhome It sort of makes sense to have a late start on the longest day. Plenty of time to catch up.

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@MarinaPurkiss I can’t imagine Trump waiting to come second

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@LBFlyawayhome Equally interesting that in the later one parents keep the children in view while in 1964 you’d be allowed to wander farther off. Certainly that was my experience between being the child in the sixties and a parent early eighties.

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@LBFlyawayhome For when they were new it would have been wildlife. For now I’d love to read the going to school one.

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@DrJaninaRamirez Still looks good to me

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@DrJaninaRamirez Just keep on being you. We follow you because we like what you post.

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@Joannechocolat Have it worked out now. When we have steak, mine goes on bbq then I set the table, sort out drinks, make a salad and go back and put my wife’s steak on for the last minute or two.

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@McneillHot @MrBenSellers @BobSmithWalker @lukeakehurst Until this morning my north Durham vote would have gone to labour. Now it’s looking much greener.

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It's been a while since I wrote anything that went public. Thankyou #manageengine for showing off a couple of blogs from me - one on ITIL history https://t.co/NTsTSyuhqb
And another with my take on ITIL's 4 dimensions https://t.co/bsvTVyWi3x

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@DrJaninaRamirez True. But I suspect parenting was never as easy as us old folks seem to remember it was.

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@tomjennings @simonharris_mbd No. He was remembering that those people don’t matter.

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@GaryLineker Rugby not only does their video check in public but makes the referee's mike available all the time. Not sure football is quite that brave. And maybe much of it would get bleeped out?

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@theAliceRoberts teenagers

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@rob_england The frameworks are littered with words stolen from languages and given new meanings - sprint, problem, scrum and many more. False friends confuse and entertain when using more than one language, but people are mostly used to it. Try talking to your kids for much the same effect.