One of my fellow Information Quality practitioner-bloggers wrote recently about the emergence of what he labelled “DQ2.0”. You can read Henrik’s original post here. While I don’t disagree with many of the points and questions raised by Henrik, I do have  a problem with the use of a label like “DQ2.0” to describe what is …
Buzzword Bingo (or “It’s the info quality stupid”) Read More »
A short post today. I promise. Yesterday’s Dilbert made me laugh. As a telco guy I’m familiar with the lengths my industry will go to to create complicated contracts that can ‘obscure’ the total cost of a phone package. It was nice to see that getting a character all to itself in Dilbert. But what …
Good grief. How low and desperate are the Republicans? Newstalk radio in Ireland this morning ran a clip of Sarah Palin putting the stilletto in to Obama by talking about comments made at an event that Obama was at about Israel and US support for Israel back in 2003. Palin’s killer blow was that they …
Palin to Obama… why won’t the LA Times tell us when you stopped beating your wife? Read More »
Regular visitors to this blog will know about my trials and tribulations getting a half way decent broadband service that works. After a tormented experience dealing with a useless local service provider who admit to owing me money but haven’t gotten around to sending me the cheque (but in fairness, I haven’t gotten around to …
This post is an update to the previous post today… I definitely think I’ll have to consider the Data Protection request as one of the top dogs in this company I’ve been dealing with has just emailed me to say that they only had an email address for me from today. Despite the fact that …
So, according to the Irish Examiner, John Cleese has hinted that he may offer his services as a speech-writer to Barrack Obama should Obama get the Democratic nomination. Oh good grief. Hilary Clinton has no option now but to go after Eric Idle to counteract the gag-meistery of Cleese. I’m looking forward to her speech …
From time to time the DoBlog allows honoured guests to write posts (well I would if anyone asked). When I’m stuck for honoured guests, sometimes I invite family, and I even let them get a byline on the piece. No cuttypasty-and-claim-as-my-own here thanky much. This post is penned by the brother. If he would actually …
I am a blood donor. I am proud of it. I have provided quite a lot of sensitive personal data to the IBTS over the years that I’ve been donating. The specific purposes for which I believed I was providing the information was to allow the IBTS to administer communications with me as a donor …
The quest of The Raiders of the Lost Wii draws to a close. What was the best invention of 2007? Invention, rather than product development is how I think of this. The Nokia N95 might be a contender, but it is simply an evolution of existing things. Likewise the Iphone. Neither are particularly unique. My …
Today’s Irish Examiner website made me chuckle today. In case they’ve fixed the error, the headline as of 15:00 today is “More than 17,000 new heroine injectors in scheme”. The question is, what are they injecting? The full “Lara Croft” (or other famous female heroine), liquidised Lara or just “essence” of Lara?