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Don’t fear the U-turn

Listening to Radio 4 this morning (I love Farming Today!), I was listening to the news reporting that Jack Straw has executed a u-turn on the plan to build large prisons. To my amazement, people were mocking him for having changed his mind.
Much as I generally dislike Jack Straw, my opinion of him improved somewhat [...]

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Downturn thinking

Whilst I don’t want to appear to dismiss the pain of those who have been unfortunate enough to lose jobs or income as a result of the economic downturn, it appears that it’s a really exciting time for those of us who enjoy making things better.
Most companies have some form of IT infrastructure: you almost [...]

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Information Overload

I love the Internet, I do, I really do, but it wears me out.
I have more RSS feeds in my feedreader than I have time to read, and I come across more every day that interest me. The Internet is absolutely fatal to anyone with wide-ranging interests: it’s so easy to overdo the information influx [...]

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Obligatory comment on X-UA-Compatible

This strikes me as a continuation of those ‘Best viewed in $browsername $version’ badges, that irritate me beyond all measure.
I will use what version and what browser I choose, to consume your content. If I choose to have the text chiselled out onto the back of a passing badger, that is *my* choice.
At the moment [...]

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Inexcusable Ignorance

I realised the other day, as I professed ignorance to the whereabouts of Edmonton, that there is seldom an excuse for ignorance these days, if you have any kind of Internet connection. A few moments with the web browser of my choice and not only would I know where it was but I could also [...]

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skills for the modern world

Human beings have always sought to make sense of their environment by labelling things (even if it was just different shades of “ugg” for a while). The modern (don’t make me say Web 2.0) web projects are popular, mainly because they give us a chance to label things for ourselves. Everyone’s understanding is different, and [...]

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leaning towards learning

As a precocious (their words, not mine) 10/11 year old, I used to be given the books of my peers to check spelling tests, and was assigned as mentor to a couple of the less able members of my class. I wonder how Daniel is getting on these days.. I also have some memories [...]

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