I saw this link on the BBC this morning and it made me think of the potential implications for the quality of information presentation if MS Word docs begin to be localised not just to national languages but to regional dialects within those language families. The implication for the quality of information presentation, and the …
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There’s an interesting post on Tuppenceworth from Fergal reviewing “Inside the Emerald City”, which is an expose of the shenanigans in the Green Zone in Iraq. I like the term “Green Zone”. It reminds me of of the recorded PA you often hear in US airports: “The White Zone is for loading and unloading.” I …
Found this initially in Metro free newspaper and also on The Register. This man is clearly somewhat paranoid about ‘the man’ being able to recover data from his hard-drive. However, as pointed out by the Reg, the misguided belief that deleting any files on your computer removes them from existence is just plain wrong. In …
It would seem that the IT thought police in my employer were paying attention to the Blog awards. For a long time our web filters only blocked tools like blogger.com and typepad. Sites like Tuppenceworth who operated their blog on their own domain (like the DoBlog too) flew beneath the radar. Not any longer. As …
the DobBlog has been neglected of late. I have been busy upgrading and tweaking the website of the IQ Network (www.iqnetwork.org), a Community of Practice of the IAIDQ run in partnership with the IAIDQ (www.iaidq.org). Please toddle over there to take a look – the IQ Network has a very full calendar of events for …
Simon over at Tuppenceworth is getting a bee in his bonnet about the standard of Irish journalism. I have to agree. I am a Director of publicity for an international association for Information Quality professionals. Over the past year I have submitted a number of commentaries on issues such as the Electoral Register. Not ONCE …
the DOB Blog has been on an unintended hiatus in recent months. This was due to a total breakdown in customer service from the american company that I had registered my old domain (www.obriend.com – rip) through. I have had this new domain (obriend.info) for a couple of months, but haven’t had the time to …
Following on from Michel Neylon’s on-going battle with Amazon, it looks like the illness has begun to affect Expedia (who may need to buy an atlas from Amazon). A colleague of mine just tried to book a hotel room in London for a weekend away. She got her itinerary number and had confirmed availability and …
I heard about this piece of bother on RTE Radio 1 news today. Apparently a Fianna Fail TD is up in arms that people who had been renting a phone handset from eircom and subsequently bought a new one and didn’t return the rented phone or alert eircom that they were no longer using it …
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