I don't care who you are or what you do, you simply must read Seth Godin's blog. He is the pied piper of a new age of communication and business building. I was inspired by him to write this post.

Isn't it strange how the promise of future glory tends to be overcome by the reality of past failures?

I have been on Twitter now for about a year or so. At first I didn't get it, and it was actually pretty annoying. But, much to my surprise, today I really enjoy it. I check through my tweets pretty regularly and use it to keep in touch with people from all over the world. Fantastic little medium. Anyway, I have recently figured out that I am not the only reliability professional using Twitter! So now I can keep up with part of my asset management network on Twitter.

Thanks for following this blog. I hope you all have enjoyed the Christmas period and I wish you well in the New Year. It seems that it is going to be an interesting time for all of us.

I thought this might be of use to you all. Over the past few months I have been acutely aware that there were not too many people who were writing blogs about asset management, reliability and engineering in general.

If there are any of you out there who like to check out the originating documents of things, like RCM, for example, then I have just found a really good source of archival information.

It is called Storming Media and is the repository of documents that have been published by the Pentagon over its many years in operation.

This link (http://www.stormingmedia.us/search.html?q=RCM&search.x=12&search.y=17) will take you straight to the RCM section where there are a number of relatively famous case ...

I found this easy to use graph in Google Docs, along with some other very powerful graphing functions.

This example is from the people that I have trained in RCM, and the facilitators I have trained.

A site called Slideshare.com has been running a competition to select the worlds best Presentation. The winner was a slide about the looming water crisis all over the world.

I thought I would post about this here because it is an issue of particular interest to me and my family. My wife and I have supported Water Aid for almost a decade now and I would recommend them to you as an honest and professionally run charity that performs life changing services for communities throughout the world.

After a long time in th ...

The other day my kids surprised me when they saw an image of an envelope on a piece of paper I had and immediately said "look Daddy - email"

I started to think about a lot of other things that they will never know about and came up with this list of things we don't say anymore.

Feel free to add to it.

"Smoking please" - don't even think about it.

"Can I have a coffee please?" - Nope. Only a double tall mocha with cream and vanilla will do now.

"Who would know that?" - Googl ...

Maybe the USA and other developed nations could learn a thing or two about infrastructure management from Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

He spoke last year at a the National Asset and Facility Management Convention packed with about 1,200 attendees, ministers, chiefs of staff and other functionaries. The conference had been organized by ...

A few years ago I wrote this on my own blog Equipment Management and Technology, it has been a great success so I thought I would share it here. It is only a joke of course (sort of) and good to laugh at the lighter side of what we do.

 The ERP game has grown in popularity since the end of the 1980’s. Today a growing number of teams all over the world play the game.

Despite the surge in popularity, there is no record of the rules of the game. Therefore, for the first ...

I regularly drop in on a number of sites around the internet that are always good sources of original thinking, new ideas and new concepts. Unfortunately the world of maintenance and reliability blogging is a little bit scarce, but there are still a lot of us out there.

Once you get past all the job ads on the RSS feeds, you can find some of the following blogs:

• The Taproot Blog - Mark Paradies has always been very good at getting the message out, and this blog is no excep ...