I'm not the only Mike Castle!!

I have had a challenge this week, which makes me smile to think about but at the time was getting quite frustrating.

My name is Mike Castle, I live in the UK and have the twitter account @mikecastle.   Now, there is also a Mike Castle in the US who is a politician and obviously has his followers and those not quite so happy with his actions!!  See about him here.

This week there must have been a rally or vote of some description as the noise, sorry 'direct mentions' of the name 'Mike Castle' was in the hundreads if not thousands!   Now my only beef as it were, is the people not so happy with politician Mike's performance were slating him on twitter, but tagging him with MY twitter account...

Here are some of the ones I can show, but I'll keep the owner's details private:

@MikeCastle We the People voted you out because you suck!!! Plain as that you moron !!!!!

@mikecastle suck it up and back O'Donnell or you will become as insignificant as you are acting now.

What a piece of crap @MikeCastle is. He won't concede. Maybe he'll endorse the Liberal #desen #tcot

Now I have never contacted this Mike Castle, I don't care 'that' much about the misdirected abuse - but my wife worries that my name will be trashed in the process.   I just smile at that - it's the perils of living in the internet age.   With joining the world together in a multitude of ways and near instantaneous with the internet, did you REALLY think you'd be 'that' unique in the world???


Keep smiling people, it's a big world out there and there is room for everyone!!

About me!

I am a Geek... well i was, no...  i still am - but only on the quiet when people don't realise!  I have over 20 years in IT technology from humble beginnings in support, through to a server analyst, on to a solutions architect, senior consultant and now as a client services director for an IT services company.

Not the path I planned when it began way back when...   but lifes like that, isn't it.   Who knows what's gonna happen next???

My life these days involves running a team of highly technical, focused individuals who help me support a portfolio of clients with their technology demands to make sure their business does what it needs to - earn them money, grab opportunities when they arise and grow year on year without forever hitting brick walls with capacity, performance, resilliency or data protection.

Now, I have a mindset that I do what I do because i enjoy it - why else turn up day after day, week after week if what you do doesn't keep you interested and allow your talents to shine?  That mindset sometimes means long hours, nights away, long drives and time away from the family - but I don't give in..   I don't miss.  I have a target to achieve and I achieve it, no matter what work/hours/learning/help it takes to achieve...  i don't miss.   Not to say mistakes don't happen on occasion - I am human after all, but those times when mistakes do happen drive me to improve the process/procedure/technology etc to ensure it isn't repeated - learn and grow from those times and you can't go wrong.

So there you go... the most honest, open thing I have made public about my inner most thoughts for years..   and I choose to put it out there for the world to comment on!  

Enjoy!