my web 0.2 website

In between browsing Facebook and Youtube, the UK economy generates $1,930,000,000 of output a year. Thats $550,000 every two and a half hours. Well if today had been a work day, there’d have been one two and a half hour period where that was much higher. That’s because in a pique of […]

I tried to open some dialogue with colleague members of the ITSPA about Vodafone’s legal challenge to Ofcom’s two-hour number port ruling.  Instead I got a number of offlist replies suggesting Vodafone’s challenge is still news to many in the industry.
Today, if you want to port your number from one service provider to another, it […]

There are not many silver linings on the cloud sitting over Information Security experts who work for the UK Government this Christmas.  Following the loss of personal information on welfare recipients by HMRC (twice), learner driver information by the DVLA, personal information on policemen binned in an unencrypted and intact form by Devon police, and […]

Ever since John Gage of Sun first offered the phrase “The Network Is The Computer” to the world, people have been using it as inspiration. Sun use it to explain that they mean Social Networking without actually using the phrase (they prefer the old fashioned “community”).
I think web 2.0 developers are offering a new […]

“Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It’s a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It’s terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up from a couple of blind kids who wanted me to build a device. A certain […]

I have twice now had to defend an unpopular premise - that local governments should not provide free wifi to residents and visitors. A recent thread on the Open Rights Group discussion list almost got pretty out of hand between a few people who thought it was dangerous for the government to be providing […]

I ranted on the Ecommerce Experts mailing list earlier in the week after canceling an order on a cabling website, after it prompted me to enroll in Mastercard Securecode, with no way out.
My gripes are that

The general public should NOT be encouraged to enter their secret personal data at a checkout, in random popups.  The […]

I spent some time last night making some cards for the LugRadio Key Signing event. I’ve used pgp for a while (since 2001 - I am now on my second key) and have not worked on building up the number of signatures I had on my first key.
I understand that PGP works best with […]