Apr
21
Rathergate Rumbles on . . .
April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It’s always nice when a comment points you to something you’d otherwise have missed. Al Dorman’s rather acerbic post here took me on a search across the ocean to a publication called Texas Monthly which has published one of the best examinations of the whole Killian memos/Rathergate debacle I’ve yet seen by Joe Hagan. Read it […]
Apr
14
e-Mail: to snoop or not to snoop?
April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald claims that 40% of IT administrators snoop on their company bosses’ e-Mails. As one of the commenters underneath the article succinctly puts it regarding that statistic: ‘crap’. I’d have to agree — 40% is way too low. In a previous life working for a large US multinational word got […]
Apr
3
Rediscovered track of the month: Apr ’12
April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Tony Basil, Hey Mickey
Apr
3
The Wolfson Prize — a warning for the Greeks
April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The Wolfson Prize shortlist was announced today. 11-year-old Jurre Hermans’ entry for the Prize got a special mention & contains the following instructions to be carried out in the event of a Greek citizen trying to change his Euros for something worth more than a drachma (like perhaps the Malian centime): So if a Greek man tries […]