Yesterday was a long day at work, mainly encrypting and decrypting desktop computer files & some further consideration of building product user communities. I looked at my reading list, made longer by a visit to Waterstones earlier in the month where I had picked up Keynes vs. Hayek & read half a chapter. I really must finish it. …
Standing Orders! Eh! …
I went over to City Hall, for a London Labour Party reception last night and met and spoke to lots of interesting people. One conversation that’s exercising people, is the growth of the Green Party. I just can’t get how people are arguing that we should listen to UKIP’s voters and fight the Greens. The Labour Party has left huge amount of space to its left and the Greens are occupying it. Whether the “Tories on bikes” will live with this is another matter but which of their policies do we disagree with? Minimum Wage? School governance? Re-Nationalising the Railways?
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Yesterday was a day in two parts, writing up my notes on last month’s BCS meeting on the changing Privacy legal environment, specifically the coming EU Data Protection regulation and then some drinkies with firstly Richard Morgan, and then some work colleagues. So, Canary Wharf, then the Old Star in Westminster, and onto the City…and so to bed. …
It seems that Microsoft have removed some of the ruder emoticons from Skype. I discovered this while looking up wordpress’s emoticon features.
On the 27th Sept, Torrentfeak comments on an MPAA funded report on film distribution in the USA. It highlights the oddity that the most used service (Netflix) has the weakest catalogue. Later in the year, the researcher, KPMG LLP published a report on the UK market, which Torrentfreak commented on here…. The headline was that a film fan wanting the best catalogue would need to subscribe to 27 services, which seems a bit excessive. …
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. …
Had a conversation about the recurrence of IT availability risks. It all depends on your hobbies. …
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. …
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.
