Strategy is go

The NHS procurement eEnablement strategy is now live. We helped a great group of people draw it together. Summary: the NHS doesn’t make effective use of the information about the goods and services it purchases. We have a route to make better use of that...

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Jonathan, just back from NYC. He enjoyed the Ellis Island museum – it is still one of my favourite experiences of America, as I have previously mentioned.

El Bulli

Just like the Taj Mahal, El Bulli blows you away. There’s not a restaurant that comes close. We were lucky beyond belief to get in and are suitably grateful. All over again tomorrow, please.

Hard tests

Multiple-choice tests just aren’t hard if you grade by counting right answers. Thankfully I doubt I’ll have to do many more, but I’m glad we had to do real exam questions when I was learning.A really hard test would be colonising space. Kurzweil...

UK Top 10 in e-Government

Funny that Accenture’s new report talks about Delivering on the promise – the now defunct content management system that ran a lot of government websites. Good news that we are rising, though.

Granger on CfH

Lots of good stuff in the unedited evidence that Granger gave to the health committee.

ASP.NET template persistent cache error

I got the following error showing up on the IIS logs:Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data may...

Google street view

Google street view is very smart – it’s a little like the Amazon equivalent, but still very well implemented.