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” …
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. …
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. …
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.) …
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! …
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
Hello Internet Explorer compatibility view mode …. wtf! I didn’t realise people were still developing for IE; the Labour Party, that’s you that is!
I rang the company travel agent to update my FF number on the ticket for next month’s trip to Zurich. I know that my birthday, Xmas and New Year are all in between; it should be a fun month.
old friends turn out to be great friends…a good evening with an old friend; we looked forward though not back …
Gordon Brown announces his retirement to the clash of views from the press and the Labour Party. To be accurate, he has announced that he isn’t standing for re-election as an MP. He leaves a mixed legacy, well summarised by the Telegraph of all sites, who list his contributions to New Labour and the ’97 landslide, economic stewardship until 2007, his opposition to the UK adopting the Euro, his leadership in response to the 2008 global liquidity crisis and his critical contribution to the Scottish Referendum debate on the No side. …
