Welcome to the website, blog, et cetera, of Wayne Horkan (my LinkedIn profile). I’m a technologist and engineer, typically working in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. Mainly I design systems for people. Occasionally I even build them. I also help out at the IET with their Digital Panel.
Currently, I work for Cyber Tzar (our company website) providing vision and technology leadership. Cyber Tzar makes a dang wicked Cyber Risk Management platform, but, obviously, I would say that.
My current favourite quote (from my son, Andy): “Straight out of the genius bucket!”
Places you can find me and Cyber Tzar:
- Wayne Horkan on LinkedIn
- Wayne Horkan on X/Twitter
- Cyber Tzar Company Website
- Cyber Tzar on LinkedIn
- Cyber Tzar on X/Twitter
I like to talk about:
- Neurodiversity
- Literature
- Cyber – Opens in a new browser window (these articles are on the Cyber Tzar blog)
- Technology
- Economy
- Code
- Tech Opinion
My favourite and most read articles are:
- Cool Hand Luke as a Christian Allegory: Drawing Parallels Between Luke and Jesus, and Dragline and Saul/St. Paul
- The Master and Margarita: Unveiling a Literary Masterpiece’s Historical Tapestry
- FasterTrading 2008 and the fragmentation of the UK and European Trade Markets
- Cloud Relationship Model
- Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
- Ephemeralization & Information Overload
- Alcohol in Cinema: A Temporal Reflection through “Some Came Running,” “Days of Wine and Roses”, and “Leaving Las Vegas”
- Key Criticisms of the Server Side Public License (SSPL)
- “Desiderata” by Max Ehhrman
- Critical Analysis of “Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders” by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- No Shit Sherlock: The Overdue Collapse of NFT Mania
- Alan Mather’s 2003 ‘Enterprise Architecture in Government’ white paper available online
- Simon Freeman, ex Chief Architect of the Government Gateway, responds to “Evolution of UK Government Messaging Systems”
- Three part investigation of UK Government Messaging Systems (from 2009)
- Industry contributions to the UK economy and investment in R&D; by industry
- Dr. James Martin’s ‘Target Earth’, the 2008 Turing Lecture
- Guide to Posting on Twitter based on the 2023 Source Code Disclosure
There’s also a slew of articles that I migrated over from my old Sun Microsystems Blog too, including:
- Government Messaging Systems
- Cloud Computing
- Faster Trading
- Roller Weblogger
- UK Economy
- Enterprise Architecture
Please note: some of the links in these converted articles may refer back to the saved version on the “Internet Archive: Way Back Machine” (where I gathered some of them as Oracle had deleted the Sun blogs, yay Oracle, snore).
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