- November 28, 2007
Much to my surprise my entry to the London Marathon in 2008 was accepted in the ballot. The last time I got a place like that was for Paris in 1999. Every other marathon I've always run under a charity's golden bond scheme. The acceptance form has a useful box which allows me to defer my entry until 2009. With my knee still not working properly after I tore the meniscus back in March, despite an apparently successful operation, this looks to be my only option. I'm going to give it a couple...
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- November 26, 2007
Finally found the original of the slide I was looking for from the earlier post, The Data Spiral. This should be more readable. It paired up with this slide
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- November 25, 2007
Here's an extract from my Government Enterprise Architecture paper from September 2003: The principal now is that data can be exposed to many viewers &x2013; internal staff, third parties, intermediaries and the citizenbusiness themselves. The number of data sources has been dramatically reduced, perhaps not to one but to a few at least. This has been achieved principally through abstracting the original back end systems using clever technology known as web services and through creating a set..
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- November 25, 2007
There are, as you'd expect, 1001 stories about the loss of 25 million records relating to children and their parents. Child benefit is one of the most "taken up" government benefits - something like 98% of parents (umm, sorry, children) receive it (versus perhaps 80% for child tax credit). So there's certainly a large number of people affected - the figures of 7.5 million households and 25 million people total look about right. I've seen this called "DataGate" by the...
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- November 24, 2007
I had a strange conversation with a guy this week. I needed him to sign up to do something. He didn't want to do it. His way of telling me this was to say that he "didn't want to commit in case he had to decommit later" - of course this was by email not an actual, whatchamacallit, a conversation. I'm wondering if that should be de-commit. Or, actually, I'm wondering if there's even such a word. Surely "commit" means just that - to commit to do something means you'll do it,...
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- November 20, 2007
Yesterday, I had a "blue screen of death" on my recently upgraded to Vista laptop. I guess the laptop did what it was supposed to do: the screen went blue, then filled with a load of hex numbers as it dumped cores or something and then it rebooted. So far, so part of history. The surprise came when, after the reboot, a dialogue box popped open and asked me if I wanted Windows to fix the problem. Sure, why not How nice to be asked. Windows said that there was a problem with my NVIDIA..
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- November 8, 2007
If you've arrived at this page and you're not a regular reader, it's probably because you've typed "dubai.gov.ae" into google or some other search engine (I'd give good odds it was google though) and found that this site has 2 of the top 10 results. But it isn't what you want. Here are some alternative links to try that I think will get you closer to what you need: Dubai's "Official Portal of Government", in arabic http:www.dubai.ae The same site, in English,...
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- November 7, 2007
Today's error trying to get my voter registration sorted on my local council's website: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f4' Variable is undefined: 'sql' CXfinalconfirm.asp, line 31 Funny. I don't even know what that means of course. You'd have thought that would have come up in testing. There isn't, though, a "report this bug" to me button. Even better, given they have my voter number, how about they auto-mailed me to say that they'd seen the problem and would...
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- November 7, 2007
On Sunday I was cycling briskly along the river past Westminster when I was stopped in my tracks by a cavalcade of whistles, drums and people in fancy dress. Sadly there were no horses that I could see. This had two immediate effects - a two minute spectacle that was really quite entertaining and then, far, far better, the opportunity to cycle along the river from Westminster pretty much to Tower Bridge without so much as a car on my side of the road. The cavalcade was, I gather, in protest...
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- November 7, 2007
What an awesome run by Paula Radcliffe on Sunday. After standing at the finish line of the London Marathon earlier this year and watching five hours of what seemed endless pain and suffering, including some (literally) staggeringly emotional scenes as runners collapsed yards from the finish, I'd pretty much vowed never to watch another big race again. But with Sunday's New York Marathon, the benefit of distance and the aid of television to keep an emotional check on me, I relented. I'm sort of.
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