Summing up and moving on

The newspapers now report (West Australian Monday, May 9, 2011) that the Shared Services adventure is over.  It has cost $489 million to date, and will cost another $1.8 billion to decommission.  The Government has apparently determined that this will be an acceptable price to pay to get this off the books.   The dogs have barked, the caravan moves on - as have I.  Technology is no longer my trade, or reputation, or concern.  So I've freshened up the sub-heading, dropping the Technology bit from: "A constructively skeptical view of the promises and expectation of Technology."  Essentially my interest these last few years has drifted in the direction of the abstract; sociology, psychology and philosophy.  A few particular concepts engage me, but whether they are worth running to ground is hard to judge: "It is in the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself as proper nourishment, and, from the first moment of begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by everything you see, hear, read, or understand." LAURENCE STERNE (1713-1768), Tristam Shandy.  Just so...