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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is the Internet?
A nice article here in The Observer by Professor John Naughton, which neatly captures much of the difficulty that many have in understanding the Internet. I do like his distinction between the Web and the Internet – the train / track analogy seems a good one, worth a go when trying to explain this to [...]