Not sure I agree with the conclusion, but this book may be worth reading for interest.
Designers, inventors, teachers,storytellers — creative and empathetic right-brain thinkers whoseabilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t
A minimum of three departments, money, leadership and an extensible contract / OJEU? That’s shared services for government. Nothing like that since Whitehall 1 was cancelled due to “business case” issues – e.g. it didn’t stack up. Additionally it was mostly an ERP contract, not a full extensible shared service. Apparently the Project Isaac contract for
Now that Pocket GPS World charges for POIs, you can still get free ones at POIplace. [Update: try POI Edit as well to help manage the POIs you are installing.]
Would you watch ads to get free, quality music for download. Yes, I’d do that, I think. Now, if Microsoft was funding it, that would be a very clever way to get back at Apple’s dominance of this market. Also, if you could pay extra for a higher-quality or video-supported version of the tune, I might even pay for that. Who knows?
I didn’t realise Grainger was asking quite that much!
Alan Mather lists some of the reasons that shared services are tricky in government. The Power, Control, Trust trio probably holds in the private sector as well, but there is a P for Profit in there that tends to drive harder than the other three.
Amazon launches a utility computing system. It’s more expensive than I pay (ten times more – which is cheap when you think about it given reliability) but is based on Amazon’s systems, which I imagine are pretty scalable and reliable. A very interesting move – allowing others to benefit from their architecture. As they say, this is providing scalable elastic resources rather than fixed resources as per a traditional host.
Have been having horrible spambots on my wiki (with various recipes and personal stuff on it). I’ve tried a combination of things to try and combat it.
Shame: I’d have liked to see hundreds more planets added, rather than Pluto removed. Just think of all the textbooks and encyclopaedias that need to be changed. Wikipedia has it covered.
I sometimes get a problem with OSXvnc – I can log in fine, but then the screen flashes on then off again. I’m not sure what causes it, but I can fix it by doing the following:sudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc stop
sudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc start