Data Tsunami

Posted on Fri 19 November 2010 in general • Tagged with data, government, politics, transparency

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 …


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Adding Google Juice to mutt

Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in geek • Tagged with data, emacs, encryption, google, gpg, 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 …


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Going Mobile

Posted on Tue 08 January 2008 in geek • Tagged with cod4, data, google, ps3

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 …


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Who can you trust?

Posted on Mon 18 August 2003 in geek • Tagged with data, ms, portable docs, word

I was reading another href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3154479.stm>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 href=http://www …

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