by Tom | Jan 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
A Chill on The Guardian looks at the increasingly tricky environment in which investigative journalism operates. In this case the Guardian got it wrong the first time and then was helped by Private Eye following up. The scale of costs involved suggests that...
by Tom | Dec 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Freakonomics looks at auction sites like MadBid and describes them as All-Pay Auctions. Looks like I was right to be wary of these things. The thought of protecting ones investment in bidding costs is exactly what people will protect, and therefore end up spending...
by Tom | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Green Sahara. Where to start. I love the giraffe petroglyph, especially given it is around 8,000 years old. But what about this: sand has a memory of when it last saw light. Yes, that´s what I thought to. Apparently you can date recent to c. 500,000 years old...
by Tom | Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
12 trusts join NHS shared services. Interesting to see SBS step in after a Capita deal went sour. I´m not sure the argument in the article about SBS benefiting from the downturn makes a huge amount of sense, though.
by Tom | Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
It has taken a while to work out what to do with Google contacts (which I want to be the central store for my contacts). Having various attempts at sync cause massive duplication (up to 6x in the end) I went back to a known good set from a couple of months ago. The...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Personal Software Inspector is a great free download that checks the software on your system to see if any of it is at risk (mostly from hackers, exploits and the like). Saves you having to worry about whether software has been updated or not and links directly to...
