Archive for November, 2007

Wow, and while I’m on the subject too… Did we really need any more convincing that a national ID database is a bad idea? Having worked in government and seen some of the extraordinary care some departments take over Data Protection, today’s breach is astonishing. I think this is the final straw that gets me [...]

A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.

Never expected something from YTMND to put a lump in my throat. Click to play:

There are enough of them already. I just wanted to talk about two interesting things. Interesting thing one The dictionary is superb. See I predict a pint on the marvellous GrammarBlog. As I think Peter Morville commented previously, I think one of the most intelligent and thoughtful touches Apple added was to have swear words [...]

Stop, filler time. How To Be Ugly – the rise of New Brutalism in design Google v Yahoo homepages over the last ten years Why percentages don’t add up – which is scarier: a medical procedure with a 95% survival rate, or one that kills 1 in 20 people? Spam One-Liners – “experiments in hand [...]

It’s no great surprise that my blogging frequency is inversely proportional to how busy I am. It’s not yet reached the stage where I’m staying horribly late and regretting my life, but it’s certainly at the stage where, when I get home, I tend to want to stay offline and decompress. Normally with my Benko [...]