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The MAD Museum

Almost a year since I was moved to post something here, but a trip to Stratford upon Avon with my son has moved me to enthuse about kinetic art. This was Robert’s first visit to Stratford, and our main purpose was to visit the various Shakespeare museums and to see a performance of one of [...]

April 17, 2012 • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

Protect your laptop, macbook or android device

It’s been a while since I last posted something here.  A job move and a change of country (from Wales to UAE) has taken up my attention for the past few months. So perhaps I am the last person to discover Prey – a neat utility that runs on your laptop or mobile device and [...]

May 14, 2011 • Tags:  • Posted in: Uncategorized • One Comment

Courgette Cake

This is a bit different from my usual posts, but if a blog is for anything, it is for passing on to others things that you find useful.  So, at today’s Equality and Diversity Steering Group meeting at ONS I brought along a courgette cake which seemed to go down pretty well.  This recipe has [...]

December 10, 2010 • Tags: , • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

MacroWikinomics

Don Tapscott’s latest book, a macro view of mass collaboration to follow up his best-seller “Wikinomics” has just come out.  I haven’t read it yet, but he was at his inspirational best when he spoke at the EA 2010 Conference in London earlier this year, and these short interviews with TechCrunch are full of interesting [...]

November 2, 2010 • Tags:  • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

Zachman and EA

I greatly admire John Zachman – his framework is a tremendous piece of work, the very foundations of Enterprise Architecture.  From an intellectual perspective,  it seems to me unshakeable, and John was on excellent form at the 2010 EA conference in London this summer. For many, the difficulty with the framework is not conceptual, but [...]

October 12, 2010 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments