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A quick competition: what is the visual gag on the cover of Introduction to Real ITSM, NOT including the IT'IL END IN TEARS coffee mug?

First two correct answers emailed to me get sent a copy of the book.

P.S. Please don't post the answers as a comment. (Someone would).

P.P.S. Still giving away $100 in the Legends competition. Don't leave me to win my own competition. Share your tales.

Some recent stats point to lots of ITIL practitioners worldwide.

One of our readers, Red Pineapple over at Thinking Problem Management posted a list of "blogs that rock" and was nice enough to rate the IT Skeptic at five pineapples, the highest rating so far.. or maybe the lowest, since pineapples represent problems (stickly and prickly see?). Check out the list - there are lots of interesting sites.

On the other hand David Wheeldon's statement that this (the Skeptic's) blog is "bollocks" is currently showing as "confirmed" on Red's myth-busting poll so not everyone agrees with Red :-D

I've just cleaned up the IT Skeptic's ITIL news feed, which uses Yahoo Pipes, so content is better balanced, has less crap, and less of the IT Skeptic. Get it here.

Welcome to the new-look IT Skeptic. Nothing major: I took advantage of some standardisation of the underlying infrastructure to do some minor decorating, avoiding ETF.

Competitions are hard work on this blog. You lot need to spend less time working and more time futzing around on websites. Remember nobody lies on their deathbed thinking "I wish I had spent more time working". The winner of the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery photo competition from a small but strong field is

Readers of this website can be assumed to have a certain non-conformist spirit and at least a modicum of independent thought, so "Rogues Gallery" is an appropriate name for images of readers. Send us your photo wearing an IT Skeptic T-shirt or cap, or waving an IT Skeptic coffee mug Wally-fashion, and you can join the Rogues Gallery of IT Skeptics.

Best photo contributed by end of August wins a copy of the IT Skeptic's new book (gotta be out by then, surely?)

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