Sardines

Fancy getting up close and personal with government ICT officials? Er, well our Government Technology Forum seems to be taking the old supermarket adage of 'stack the shelves high' a little too literally. We'd originally planned for about 150-200 delegates - and 200 was the very highest I'd been aiming for. Today's total ... 212. Gulp. Creative suggestions on how to persuade senior government officials to 'seat share' come Thursday, Friday welcome ...

... meanwhile, just like to announce the arrival of a new member of staff - Jianggan Li. He's been with us now for a couple of weeks, and seems to be settling in nicely. He's already met up with Microsoft, HP, Oracle, as well as written up reports on Nanyang Girls School's use of ICT. As a Chinese computer sciences scholar I expect great things of him, and he's already impressed Janice at Text100 with his Chinese vocabulary. And he impressed me with his ability to pronounce 'liaise' properly.

He's not studied journalism, nor has he been through the sausage factory that is Singaporean ICT journalism. In other words he's bright, optimistic, and untainted by the miasma of cynicism that I see from too many 'experienced' journalists these days. Jianggan will be working across all of our magazines, with a particular remit to cover developments in, and source for content from China.