CAB on intermediary working

The CAB has responded to the OeE’s intermediary consultation paper.Their three key areas are:common method of authenticationmaking and tracking claimsappearance and usability of online formsWe touch on two of these (not authentication) in LAWs. Joined-up...

Government e-service usage

Government Goes Online shows a strange disconnect between consumer sophistication and usage of government services online. The UK is low at 13% reach, which makes some sense, but to have South Korea at 23% is astonishing.

HTML newsletter creator

Bletter for Better eNewsletters a simple form-based interface to developing full-scale HTML/plain email newsletters. It looks interesting, and is free for non-commercial use.

Dominant Dimples

What causes dimples? asked Yahoo and answered that it’s a classical Mendelian dominant-recessive pair. Who’d have thought it?

Facts? about the 1500s

An email-around that caught my attention (NB these can’t all be true / confirmed, but they sound plausible):> The next time you are washing your hands and complain> because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it,> think about how things used to...

Why PFI doesn’t work in ICT

eGov monitor: Comments on the Treasury’s review of the use of PFI in public sector IT projects. Some boilerplate stuff there, interspersed with some good information.

RFID tags

Ben comments on RFID chips and the threat to privacy based on a great Register article on the subject. My take on this: yes, there could be repercussions of embedded “where are you” devices everywhere. However, until they know who I am rather than just...