Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, e-government and geekdom.
My boss bought a pile of short sleeved shirts for the lads in the office in a sale on Jermyn street. He wore one of them yesterday afternoon, so I thought I’d be OK in mine today. Error. We’re both wearing the same short sleeved shirt, chinos and light shoes. We look like Dr Evil and Mini-me.Dr Evil and Mini-me
UK Stays Top of G7 Broadband Coverage League. We may have the most coverage, but it certainly isn’t the cheapest, and it certainly isn’t the fastest in my somewhat deprived ward.
The Economist suggests thatcopper is at its peak. This is good news for my father-in-law (who has an import business based on copper), as it should stop investors getting into the metal for a while and help bring some profit back.
[In other news, Copper may be the target of some infrastructural destabilisation.]
Worthwhile lists Five Tips for Thriving in Your New Job. They’re pretty good, I think: mostly based around relationships and the softer side of work.
Calculating the True Price of Software looks at applying option pricing to software, and concludes that the value of software in the initial purchase price is dwarfed by the implied options for upgrades and support. Reminder to self: reread the theory behind these things.
Turning the Pages is a great collection of scanned books: they’ve just added Mercator’s atlas of the UK.
Picking Up the Tab looks at how and whether US government sites should use a self-funding model. Of course they should!
Not something I thought I’d see in my lifetime. Let’s hope they all mean it! IRA says ‘armed campaign over’
All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means. Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever.
“The IRA leadership has also authorised our representative to engage with the IICD to complete the process to verifiably put its arms beyond use in a way which will further enhance public confidence and to conclude this as quickly as possible.
More Government IT Competitions Coming Soon has a neat table of what the various G- and S-Cat category spends were.
Amanda is having fun doing collaborative poems with Puffins and Autistic detectives.
