Patrick O'Beirne's blogRisk Management, Data Quality, Testing, Spreadsheet check and controlBanff New Media Institute- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The BNMI students and artists held open events as part of the Banff Summer Arts Festival in August 2007 to showcase some of their work. These are works in progress so we don't expect finished quality, more a demonstration of what is currently being explored. Aug 9, Aboriginal Animation. Videos created by First Nations people using the facilities of the BNMI. Some were simple drawings with a voice track, others more complete animations. I don't remember the details now but it provided an...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/18#bnmi-aug-2007 Seminar on Auditing Spreadsheets, Reykjavik- (Found July 8, 2008 ) University of Iceland, Reykjavik, building VR-II - room 147 on the first floor. 16:00 on Thursday 22nd February, 2007. This seminar is by kind invitation of Prof. Ebba Thora Hvannberg, Ph.D. of the Computer Science Department. I was introduced to her by Prof. Oddur Benediktsson , a frequent visitor to universities in Ireland. His course in the Personal Software Process (PSP) of Watts Humphrey started my interest in software quality and process improvement. TOPICS 1. The risk to organisations..http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/02/21#checking-spreadsheets-reykjavik PraxIS February 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) ISSN 1649-2374 This issue online at http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0702.htm 1) Risk & Security The ISSA UCD Irish Cybercrime Survey 'Certified' Cheque Scams DST March 11 = Y2.007K 2) Quality Fourth Information Quality Forum, Dublin 3) ICS News When Irish I.T.s are smiling 4) Spreadsheets Free contributions to the Eusprig yahoogroup 5) Off Topic Google Map Trek Solzhenitsyn's advice for life 16 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/03/06#prax0702 Iceland photographs and movies- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I have now uploaded my photographs of Iceland to Flickr: http:www.flickr.comphotosprobeirne and the videos to YouTube: http:www.youtube.comPROBeirnehttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/03/20#icelandfeb28 PraxIS April 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 1) Risk & Security Biggest credit card theft - so far Consequences - the stick Human Error2) ScanXLS 2007 List all your spreadsheet files with an overview of their contents 3) Spreadsheet Best Practices training course Learn how to detect and prevent errors4) Spreadsheet news New products, free downloads 5) Off Topic ...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/04/09#prax0704 (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) PraxIS May 2007 ISSN 1649-2374 This issue online at http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0705.htm 1) IT Risk & Security Raising awareness of Information Risk Profile of a Fraudster Oxley Unhappy with SOX Hidden in plain sight 2) What does the data say Social Statistics blogs 3) Ireland Irish Computing History:...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/05/04#prax0705 PraxIS June 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) ISSN 1649-2374 This issue online at http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0706.htm 1) Risk and Security Quality Schadenfreude Bogus reports of Canadian 'spy coin' Ryanair check-in site exposes data US Intelligence embeds spreadsheet in PPT 2) Software Testing SoftTest Ireland member survey3) Web Content How does your site look to a spam sniffer What visitors to your web site care about 4) Spreadsheets Tip: Converting text numbers to values New companies in Spreadsheet Control market .http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/06/06#prax0706 PraxIS July 07: Audit Guides, ISO 27K Guides, Automation, Chance, Eusprig 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 1) Risk & Security Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG) Guidance to ISO 27K Information Security Management Standards 2) Software Testing Automated Scripts push my buttons 3) Just read these a second time 4) Spreadsheets Eusprig 2007 in Greenwich July 11-13 5) Off Topic 'Canada' explained to foreigners 10 Web links in this newsletter ISSN 1649-2374 This issue online at http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0707.htmhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/07/02#prax0707 PraxIS August 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 1) IT Risk & Security Risks from untested medical spreadsheets Spreadsheets latest spam message carriers 2) Quality Spreadsheet & Data Quality 3) Spreadsheets Report from Eusprig 2007 conference The Bug Hunt results 4) Off Topic Spreadsheets considered harmful :-) 11 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/07/27#prax0708 ISACA Ireland Conference 2007 Fri Nov 2, 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) http:www.isaca.ie The ISACA Ireland Conference 2007 will be address the theme "Focus on Data Privacy: Threats, Enforcement and Opportunities"http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/31#2nov07 |