Tag: technology

Building Britain’s Digital Future: ‘a chance to reinvent deliberative democracy for the modern age’

  • March 22, 2010 at 6:01 pm

  • In response to Gordon Brown’s speech on ‘Building Britain’s Digital Future’, Ben Whitnall of Delib asked if interested parties would like to group together to take a lead: ‘let’s get some interested people together and help design the future of digital deliberative democracy for the government. It’ll be faster, better and, with any luck, more [...]

So this is what I do…

  • August 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm

  • I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced. Although I’m still not sure I know any [...]

Tweets from Digital Britain Report event in Birmingham

  • June 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  • Last week I went to hear Lord Carter discuss his Digital Britain Final Report in Birmingham. I took a laptop and tweeted a little. As a crude record of what I wrote, what follows is my Twitter stream for that event. All I’ve done is take the html from Twitter Search and pasted it here [...]

Boffins sniff keystrokes with lasers

  • March 23, 2009 at 1:03 pm

  • This is scary. Researchers have hit upon a way of stealing passwords from a distance, even if your computer isn't connected to a network. Using inexpensive equipment, they were able to pick up vibrational patterns and electromagnetic pulses discharged when typing characters. Presumable only a matter of time before it can be applied to cashpoints too.

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Bookmarks for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52

  • January 4, 2009 at 12:01 am

  • These are my links for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52: The history of PC hardware, in pictures – An interesting pictoral history of firsts: trackball, mouse, laptop,PC, Apple, RAM, disk drive, etc. Test new html5 elements – Bruce Lawson's test page of new html elements that can be used right now. Digbeth is [...]

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