Black Sheep Research

Recently, we agreed to rebrand the regular silicon.com column as "The Brampton Factor" and to run it monthly. At the time, I started a blog but later abandoned because of the unwelcome attentions of spammers. Now there is a new blog covering some of my areas of interest. You can find it at http://blog.guru-php.com.

Some past articles from the Devil's Advocate series are

• "Open Source for Government",
• "Ethics before profit",
• "Customer service - an oxymoron?",
• "Google goes head to head with Microsoft",
• "Work is overrated",
• "Should Microsoft be paying you to use Windows?" and
• "Outsourcing lessons".