This post was originally published in August 2010 on the Irish Computer Society’s Data Protection blog. It has been republished here as it is my original work and I’m trying to get all my Data Protection musings in one place. Some links have been updated to point to different targets here and on my company’s …
John Gormley, Commercial motor tax, and Data Protection Penalties Read More »
This post was originally published in August 2010 on the Irish Computer Society’s Data Protection Blog. I’ve copied it to here as it is my work and I want to put all my Data Protection musings in one place. Please feel free to go and look at it on the ICS site as well. The …
I’m diverting briefly today from my regular information quality themes to pick up on a debate that has been triggered by Simon over on Tuppenceworth about the latest tsunami of magical thinking that is Your Country Your Call. For those of you in Ireland who reside under a rock or in a cave or readers …
Today’s Irish Times has an article by Orna Mulcahy where she bemoans the fact that the points for college courses will be higher this autumn due to the increase in applications from mature students who have recently found themselves unemployed/between jobs/time advantaged (pick your own term). After more than a decade of falling points and …
An open letter to Orna Mulcahy and Leaving Cert Class of 2010 Read More »
Apologies for being away from the blog for the entire month of December. A new addition to the family and some related complications meant I had some alternate priorities during December. However, I’m making it a New Year’s Resolution to write at least 2 posts of value per month in 2010. Hopefully I will be …
So. The Irish Government (in the form of the Dept. of Education and the State Exams Commission [SEC]) are faced with a €1million bill because an exam Superintendent inadvertently distributed the wrong exam paper earlier this week. An avoidable root cause for this now unavoidable expenditure seems to be that the packaging that exam papers …
Right – I’m opening with an apology. This should have gone out hours ago but it’s a Bank Holiday in Ireland, the sun is (uncharacteristically) shining so I took off to the beach with my wife and lost track of time… but better late than never. As some of you may know, I’m a member …
I had a great response to my post recently about leadership in information quality. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to discuss leadership and aspects of leadership with a number of people, both in person and on d’interwebs. One key trend keeps cropping up… the approach and characteristics of a particular leader may not always …
The DoBlog is 3 years old today. For 3 years I’ve been sharing my thoughts on topics information qualitarian and other things with a captive audience (I locked a few neighbours in the shed with an old PC and a packet of biscuits). I’ve also managed to attract a reasonable ‘free range’ following. Â Â …
A lot has been made of President Obama’s use of Web2.0 technologies in his election campaign. Irish political parties are falling over themselves to get on d’interwebby and send their tweets to twitter and make full use of the mygoogleyyoutubebospace.com to woo voters. After all, if you’re not in you can’t win. Of course, to …