Mike Vaughan

After leaving school to work in the money mines of retail banking, Mike Vaughan soon gave it up for the lure of labour in information technology (or data processing as it was then known). He couldn't find anything better and has now been there for years. Handsome, charming, witty and talented are none of the adjectives that can be applied to him. He lives in Hampshire, England. He may be contacted by email addressed to datahead@ymail.com.

Mind Your Language Too

This article explains why making common sense of the real world first involves abstracting or grouping actual things into kinds…

Mind Your Language

Published in TDAN.com January 2003 “Effective communication depends on a common language” is one of those blinding statements of the…