The government has done another public spending data dump today. It’s one of the policies that I was really in favour of before the election and it’s good to see the coalition holding to it’s word with this release. The raw data is available from the Cabinet Office and should soon appear on the government’s [...]
Adding Google Juice to mutt
As I’ve been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data. My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It’s terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I’m a roving around with a Google Phone the majority [...]
Going Mobile
I spent bits of yesterday getting final meter readings in and cancelling my Sky account. The rest of it was taken up with a fair amount of cursing at Call of Duty 4 as I struggled my way through act 3. Having the rest of the household point out the danger of hand grenades every [...]
Who can you trust?
I was reading another article on MS WORD on the BBC site today. Sometimes some of my friends grumble when I ask them to send attachments in standards based formats that I can easily read (although OpenOffice.org usually does an ok job). But really its not just for my convenience…I hope people realize every time [...]