THINK INDIVIDUALLY
Be creative, I am - so should you be
My name is Colin Butler, I am an IT industry professional with over 15 years experience, a podcaster and founder of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast, a Journalist and Blogger.
This is my personal website, representing my views
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technology
Technology should empower our lives, make it richer and provide a burst of creativity to change the mind and expand the soul
Amateur / Ham radio
I hold the UK callsign M6BOY, and co-founded the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.
It begins, as these things often do, with a small death.
Not the dramatic kind. Not the kind involving violins or headlines. Just the slow bureaucratic suffocation of what used to be called “customer service.”
I arrive at the Premier Inn Birmingham City Centre (Exchange Square) — luggage in hand, optimism in pocket — and am greeted not by a human but by a gesture. A nod. A point. A kiosk.
“Check in there.”
No warmth. No theatre. No “Welcome to Birmingham.” Just me and a glowing screen asking me to confirm I am, in fact, myself. The machine hums. I comply. Somewhere a shareholder smiles.