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The CTO’s Year-End Audit: Are You Building Your Vision or Just a Backlog?
December is the only quiet time you have. Don’t waste it clearing your inbox. Use this silence to audit your architecture against your Vision Document. Move beyond simple feature roadmaps and focus on building strategic capabilities. If your environment doesn’t support your 2026 goals, fix it now before the chaos returns.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Centering around a hit man, who models his life and philosophy around the ancient Japanese Samurai warrior living and operating in New Jersey, sees himself the target of the local mafia who take hum bridge for a hit that left a loose end. Forest Whitaker plays the self titled, Ghost Dog, who lives on a roof top caring for his homing (or as they call them in the USA ‘passenger’) pigeons. …
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Three Amigos (1986)
It was a Friday evening, a great day out with the family and what a wonderful way to relax in front of a roaring fire than to throw on a real classic from your childhood. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short, three comedic legends of the 1980′s, surely this can’t fail to be a hit with a new virginal audience. What started out with 5 viewers, ended up with…
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
This was an experience different from the normal run of movies so far. In a traditional cinema but watching a live broadcast of the Hamlet play happening in the Barbican Centre from London. There was something quite unique watching this shared live experience, even though all the clapping and standing ovations happened down in London. Hamlet is one of William Shakespeare’s oldest and most covered plays, and taking on the…
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Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014)
Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba and Malcolm McDowell in a single movie but I bet you haven’t heard of it. After seeing this, I am sure each of them are quite glad this has slipped you by. With such a beautiful cast, this romantic comedy had so much potential. We have Mr Brosnan, playing Richard the Cambridge literary professor who teaches the classic romantics, following in his fathers footsteps Mr McDowell.…
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The Rock (1996)
Can you believe this movie is nearly 20 years old? This was one of Sean Connery’s last major movies before retiring. Though, even as a 66 year old he looked like he could have gone another 10 years yet, considering how much output the likes of Arnold and Stallone are pumping out in their mid 60′s. This is another one I will confess, I will put in the ‘okay Nicolas Cage was quite…
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
This is a rather sweet romantic thriller built upon the premise that the leading the lady never ages after getting into a road accident in her early 20′s. Therefore she never wants to fall in love because she knows she will out live any partner. She also moves around a lot, both to avoid detection, but also to rekindle a new identity and for people not to become…
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
How does one do justice in describing this masterpiece? We have a multi-generational retelling of how a rather grand, gooky, hotel came into the possession of someone that started off his career as a lobby boy. Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Mr Gustav the concierge that maintains the quality and prestige of the Budapest Hotel. In addition to this, he takes care of his lady clients with a special attention…
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Pixels (2015)
This movie has all the ingredients to make this a complete and utter waste of time and money. Adam Sandler staring should be everything you need to know. But it gets better, an alien race, takes on the form of the arcade games from the early 1980′s to invade the planet using pixelated boxes of energy. Oh, and did I mention we have Kevin James as the POTUS? Watch…
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
This absolute gem of a movie from the very talented Mike Myers broke the mold when it came to parodies. In fact to call this a parody is being disingenuous, because this movie stands on its own two feet, even if you don’t know all the back references to the early James Bond outings. Playing the British super swinging 1960′s super agent that is then frozen only to be thawed out…
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