Just done a workplace survey about IT Security. It’s a bit American, not so appropriate for a consultancy, weak on cloud and its vendor accreditation list misses out the cloud providers such as Amazon & Microsoft. …
Hobbies
Had a conversation about the recurrence of IT availability risks. It all depends on your hobbies. …
Euler
How odd! Helen Lewis writes about Anonymity & Hacktivism in the New Statesman here… and talks about strong and weak relationships; this motivates me to start on Graph Theory again, (I say start again, I mean start) which takes me to the Koningsberg Bridge problem and Euler. Like the London buses, you live for years without knowing of him and he comes along twice in three days.
did a bit of survey research in the office since I did no Graph Theory at school to see if others had; the results suggest that it was obviously around and probably more useful than triangles of velocity. …
No pasaran
A walk down to Greenwich to see if the market has any Xmas treats for friends. Inspired by some of the pictures on sale but not enough, a quick mosey around the old Naval College; they were shooting ‘Bastille Day’, so tricolours and “no pasaran” and then lunch at Byrons.
Maybe
Yesterday, I was mainly syndicating my blog http://blog.davelevy.info and considering a popularisation of Brewer’s CAP Theorem” which I need for a white paper on “High Availability” …
Oiler
The Imitation Game, a great date movie for me & Mrs. L., some IT security, some gender politics and statistics plays a heroic role! BTW, Euler is pronounced oiler. …
Britain’s over reaching content filters
The UK’s Web site blocking rears its ugly head again. I was pointed at Der Spiegel who reports that Three and Vodafone are blocking the Chaos Computing Club‘s domain. The Chaos Computer Club is a grass roots technology association most well known outside Germany were it is based for its annual Congress held in Hamburg. Equally well known for not being a porn site. The Spiegel article is in German and I translated it using Google translate. I have hosted a copy here, and you can see google’s rendering here. The remainder of the article looks at over-blocking, including IT security resources as obscene, and the market share of the various UK carriers. …
World’s 1st wine
The Today programme: Today, first an article on Drinking and Driving, which as any fuhl kno is bad, followed by Stalin’s Chef’s cook book, and then Idi Amin’s and then onto Hitler’s farting….which all reminded me, if you visit Vinopolis in London, their exhibit on Europe’s first wine (from Georgia, which is the segue) has to be tried, if only once. (It remains a surprise to me that humanity persevered.) …
Strange
If an #android phone’s #powermanager can turn something off when short of battery, you’d think it could turn it on when it’s been recharged! …
Bright
a night-in, struggling with new computer systems and a late night stroll down Deptford High Street for essential supplies, it was cold and empty but really quite bright