Tigers of Rajasthan ‘disappear’ suggests the Sariska Tiger Reserve is now rather an inappropriate name. Sounds like the poachers have had some fun. There were only 20 tigers in 80,000 square kilometers of reserve a few years ago. Lucky we saw leopard tracks at all, I guess. The place to go, apparently is Ranthambore.
Archive for February, 2005
Ben and Jerry’s celebrates Michael Moore. The Waffle Truth.
Torrent Site Status is what it says. In the post SuprNova era, this is the best place to start looking for torrents.
Google Help : Cheat Sheet has a nice summary of all of the more sophisticated options for searching Google.
Some useful email productivity tips. I’ve been slipping recently, but had my inbox down to below ten items for a few weeks. Much healthier.
Some useful statistical software for Microsoft Excel that we might need to use. Only £100 for a single-user license.
Tip-off texts help clean streets shows how Lewisham is tackling graffiti using its citizens’ mobile phones. A nice idea, and similar to Gravesham’s SMS notification of abandoned vehicles.
Apparently banks are ramping up IT spend and this could lead to the public sector suffering - especially in this last year of the e-Government targets.
The Australians have carried out a benefits study on their e-gov programme. It’s worth a read to compare with our methodology.
Another freeware PDF writer. I still like this one - they’re all printer drivers, so pretty transparent to the end user.
It’s almost worth buzzing over to New York to see the Gates. Another great stunt / art / happening from the Christos.
How to Write a Resume has what it suggests, but with a twist. I like their seventh tip: “fake an internal post-it note”. I can just see the flood of post-it note covered resumes flooding through companies’ doors. Small problem: surely the first person to read the CV will remove the post-it? I would.
Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer! does what it says on the tin. You write in your individual letters and it creates a font for you. Sadly, my handwriting is so poor that there just isn’t any point in this for me! Also, you will find that no-one else has your font (and that’s a good thing from a security point-of-view) so your documents and pages won’t print or look right anywhere but your machine. Caveat Emptor.
Some more things to think about:
- Cheaper audio streaming devices
- Mac Mini-style enclosures for PCs
Nice.
isnoop.net has a GMail invite spooler that will find you a GMail account if you don’t have one.
old, old job and new job on the same page. Phil Hope’s announcement was at our recent event; the report from Datamonitor predicting increased spending due to e-gov appears to fly in the face of councils stated spending intentions.
Actual house prices has been a killer application in many countries. Now it’s come to the UK on a free-for-old-data, pay-for-new model, an ad-supported model and on a pay-a-pound-a-search model. The paid version is a better search, but the ad-supported one appears to have the same data (given that they’re based on the same Land Registry dataset, this is expected!). The free-for-old is great for checking older movements in prices.
Chief Exec’s Blog appears to be the first blogging local council Chief Executive in the UK. Some interesting nuggets there, especially around the efficiency review.
Two interesting articles from Ideal Government
- The Austrian single citizen ID and how it works
- The 311 city non-emergency number in New York
I think we should have both of them, now.
