This blog has gone away to where, on past experience, 2G connections can be obtained by leaning perilously out of a window and 3G connections by the simple expedient of driving 12 miles to a conveniently positioned supermarket car park. Digital exclusion can take many forms and is not always involuntary.
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Bruce Schneier applies consistent good sense to questions of security, on line and off, both through his blog and his book. The trouble is that there is lots of good stuff, but it’s hard to find scattered across several years of blogging. Now he has done a Q&A with readers of Freakonomics, which is [...]
Twenty slides om screen for twenty seconds each. Total duration six minutes and forty seconds. The end. That’s the principle of Pecha Kucha, which started in Tokyo four years ago. To put it another way, at a normal speaking speed, that’s a thousand words with twenty illustrations. Lists of bullet points are out. Complex detail [...]
Once upon a time, smaller employers (which was most of them) sent the tax and NICs they had deducted on behalf of their employees to what was then still quaintly known as the Inland Revenue. They wrote a cheque for the amount due and put the cheque in an envelope (kindly supplied by the very [...]
The Guardian reports today: High street banks have delayed the introduction of a new payments clearance system that would reduce the time it takes to move money between accounts from days to seconds. The Office of Fair Trading and the Treasury had put pressure on the banks to replace existing three-day payment clearing, which dates [...]
The art of marketing is not finding more money to do more marketing. It’s figuring out how to tell a story that spreads with the resources you’ve got. Seth Godin
Big companies, and particularly big technology companies, seem to like to sponsor conferences and think tank events. That buys them not just the use of their logo and a warm sense of public spiritedness but also, usually, a speaking slot. Invariably that slot is positioned as though the sponsor’s representative had earned their place on [...]
Release 1.-94.-3 of the CLC-INTERCAL compiler (for the INTERCAL programming language) was released on 1 April, a date which simultaneously is and is not significant, and in being either significant or insignificant thereby exemplifies (or doesn’t) the approach INTERCAL takes. INTERCAL is the acronym for Computer Programming Language with No Readily Pronounceable Acronym, which is [...]
From the new (to me) strip CEO Dad. More, much more, here.