Although I’m a fan of private companies providing services to the NHS, caution must be made to ensure robust rules and frameworks are in place. One thing that has alarmed me recently is the omission of subjecting private providers to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, in-fact the current legislation allows private providers to reject any… Read more »
Yesterday I was in a meeting discussing DNS and showed a colleague the “dig” – domain information groper – command. It’s a fantastic little tool for querying DNS name servers. For standard use all you need to do is open a terminal and type $dig example.com This will respond with; ; < > DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3… Read more »
Fantastic news from the High Court today. Apple lost its appeal in the UK high court today to overturn the outcome of a previous court case in which it was ruled Samsung did not copy apple. The good news is that Apple will now have to run adverts in the British press saying… Read more »
So, back in July I went to Sierra Leone for Project Umubano – The Conservative Party’s social action project. It was great fun, and at some point i’ll get round to writing up about it but in the meantime here is a video;
And here are some photos from Umubano; http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151265546055586.510164.682880585&type=3
Below is a quick reference on pulling stats for the amount of times a given url has been shared on the following sites. Facebook The counts include the number of shares, likes and comments on a shared link – note that the total count of the “like” button displayed on a website is the sum… Read more »
Here we go again, yet another slippery slope into the abyss of ill-thought out legislation that was promised, by the then Labour Government, to never be used on nice, normal law abiding citizens…. This time the legislation in question is the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, and in particular section 63 – stating images are “extreme” if they are seen as… Read more »
So, after doing my weekly geeky check of share prices on a few big companies, I noticed that RIM’s share price dropped below the $10 mark yesterday after a “surprise” announcement from Thorsten Henis, the CEO and President of RIM. In his announcement he mentions an expected loss, but more interesting is that they have… Read more »
So, tomorrow I’m off to Google’s Big Tent event at The Grove and it looks set to be a great day, just take a look at the agenda at the bottom of the page. From a work perspective, I’m looking forward to the morning sessions as both touch on projects I am involved in; “Porn:… Read more »
Staples have a nice little interactive speed read tester on their website at the moment. It’s a simple piece of text you have to read timed, followed by some questions to check you actually read it! I came in at 600 words per minute, which is 140% above the national average apparently – although, it… Read more »