Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:

Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]

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Friday, November 30th, 2007

Now the lies are slower than the truth

The old proverb that ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’ has been replaced by one in which the blog post has made the trip before the lie has done up its laces. It is a better world, but it is a different world and those of [...]

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Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Learning the hard way

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
The British Computer Society is the professional body for those working in IT, and is one of the bodies that defines the working practices for those responsible for ensuring compliance with data protection legislation.
Sending out an email to seven hundred people with every email [...]

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