by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | Reading
Police call for remote button to stop cars. The idea of the police being able to stop cars at will is a good one, in my utopian ideal of most people not offending, and therefore not worrying about this. But as a hacker, I know I could buy a piece of kit within weeks...
by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | IT
Web Page Development: Best Practices from Apple. There’s some useful stuff there.
by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | Government
Newham has pulled out of trials of OSS desktop software. It makes sense, given the scale of the work required, but isn’t great news for those of us who’d like to see some sort of trial go ahead.
by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | Government
Alan Mather looks ahead to the next few years of e-gov.
by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | Business
You can read Tom Peters’ Slides online. Nice idea, as you are unlikely to be able to understand the slides without going to a seminar and having the slides available might make you more likely to attend a seminar.
by Tom | Dec 31, 2003 | Personal
Apparently the Royal Mail is offering a service that lets you fill in tax returns online. Somewhat bizarre, but worth checking out, given that the IR’s one doesn’t work for me at present.
by Tom | Dec 30, 2003 | IT
Introducing PCLinuxOS 2K4 reviews a nice-looking Linux-on-a-CD distro. One for BitTorrent, I think.
by Tom | Dec 30, 2003 | Reading
High-flying camera club showcases some kite photographers. Nice hobby if you have the time.
by Tom | Dec 30, 2003 | IT
O’Reilly XForms Essentials on the web. Worth understanding these things for LAWs, among others.
by Tom | Dec 30, 2003 | IT
Tantek has a pile of good ideas for making your blog more semantic which include including what to do with anchors to show you how tricky it can be to get it right. If he’s right!