Also on the Register this morning is a worrisome story where the Daily Mail has done an experiment to see just how secure UK biometric passports are. Short answer – not very really. For a start the data on the card can be read wirelessly, but requires a decryption key to read it. It seems …
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 …
Tuppenceworth have started doing ‘Tag Clouds’ to visualise the frequency of words etc in political manifestos and speeches in the run up to the Irish General Election. Ho-hum I thought… wouldn’t it be interesting to do the same on the emerging commercial Information Quality Blogs (and perhaps other commentary in the area – it works …
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 …
Daylight Savings time starts in the US on the 11th of March – that’s next week. DST doesn’t start in Ireland or the UK until the 25th of March. The US change comes about under an Energy Protection Act passed last year. Microsoft are warning people in the US that their PCs won’t automatically update …
The DoBlog is back again, and in the style of Bond villains it has another new face. The old one was functional-ish and quite search engine friendly but it was a tad bland and ugly and didn’t wrap text very well. Frankly I put my failure to be nominated for any of the Irish Blog …
Perhaps it is that I am now on the cusp of my fourth decade as Daragh O Brien that I am getting a bit sentimental. Perhaps it is the early onset of a mid-life crisis that has me pondering how I have come to this point in my life as the person that I am. …
Two quick nuggets on IQ in Ireland… Firstly, the IQ Network are reporting that we have had a Court ruling that may have implications for Information Quality… we’ll track them and keep you posted. Secondly… The electoral register is still snafu’d despite the efforts of the Minister for the Environment. Again, expect to see more …
A disturbing thing happened to me this evening. I was out for a few drinks with an associate and his wife (who suffered through an evening of nerdvana as we discussed data quality and Dr Who). Nothing too disturbing there. Â However, at one point in the night I caught a glimpse of myself in the …
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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 …