UK ahead in e-cities

Birmingham Europe’s Top ‘e-City’ is the surprising headline of a piece of EU research. But good news for the UK and the local e-gov programme, I think.

Procurement thoughts

It looks like centralised procurement is working, in terms of driving down the prices of several items, and even getting savings on the cost of consultancy, although consulting fees through the framework agreements have tripled in three years. Question: is that a sign...

Downloading music = spending

Downloading ‘myths’ challenged discusses research that states:People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests.“No shit Sherlock” as my other half would say.

Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source vector drawing package like Illustrator or Freehand. Definitely worth a try, as I only ever need those packages four times a year, and they cost hundreds of squid.

Best programmers = profit?

Joel looks back on his quest to create a great working environment for programmers in Hitting the High Notes. It looks like there are different qualities of programmers and that putting lots of them together creates profit. We think; he doesn’t say.