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Faster than a speeding squirrel

The latest release of one of my favourite location aware web applications Dopplr, has a fun new element as part of offering public profiles. Your “Personal Velocity” compares your travels and the time taken to make them, and nominates the animal closest to your average speed.

Squirrel

I’m very happy to say that I’m a speedy squirrel !

Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.

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Siralan and the British IT Industry

siraln

Ok, so I like many geeks of my age along with my early Sinclair computers was an Amstrad user having a CPC and a PC clone at one point. Amstrad as a manufacturer of computers disappeared years ago, there is now the Viglen brand, but they are only bought by public sector organisation who don’t know better.

Last weeks Money Programme on Bill Gates featured an interview with Sir Alan Sugar, the boss of Amstrad, indeed the AMS of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.

Siralan as he is now known from the UK version of The Apprentice, is a great character.. but if you want to understand why there is no UK company like, Apple, Microsoft, Intel or Nokia just listen to his views…

Very sad….

Written and submitted from the Frankfurt Airport, Germany, using the T-Mobile WiFi Network

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The Civil servants guide to the blogosphere

As reported today in the Guardian today, there are now guidelines as to how civil servants should make use of the web as a method of communication. The result, announced by the very web literate minister Tom Watson, is a very practical and simple set of guidelines.

I can speak from personal experience that such guidelines are vital, believe it or not I was once accused of breaking the civil service code, and breaching the Official Secrets Act based on the contents of this blog… Yes really !!

I would love to see someone else from the OS take up blogging under these new guidelines and provide a much needed “human” face to the organisation.

Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.