Date:Wednesday Sep 09, 2009

UK innovation ranking compared to the rest of the World - why do we get so little 'bang' for our 'buck'? • Back on my topic of concerns about the UK economy this article looks something which I find highly problematic, that is the UK's spending on research and development (R&D), against world wide spend, and then measured against world wide innovation 'league tables'. • ..... View Comments

Date:Wednesday Sep 02, 2009

September 2009 blog catch up • Apologies to all my blog readers I've been lax of late and haven't posted a great deal recently, and I'm afraid that in an attempt to clear down all the draft blog entries I have prior to the transition and acquisition (of Sun by Oracle, of course) I'll be posting a number of blog entries in quick. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Aug 17, 2009

links for 2009-08-17 • I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist - Care about civil liberties in the UK? • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday May 07, 2009

DSC00695 EURIM 2009 Annual General Meeting at the House of Lords • Yesterday I was at the Palace of Westminster, or rather the House of Lords, for the 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of EURIM , the European Information Society Group, which "brings together politicians, officials and industry to help improve the quality of policy formation, consultation,. • ..... View Comments

Alan Mather's 2003 'Enterprise Architecture in Government' white paper available online • Alan Mather has just released his excellent "Enterprise Architecture in Government" white paper from 2003. • ..... View Comments

Date:Tuesday May 05, 2009

Industry contributions to the UK economy and investment in R&D by industry • My biggest concern about the UK economy is in two very related areas, firstly the imbalance of industry contributions to UK GDP, and secondly the imbalance of investment in innovation in those industries. • ..... View Comments

Date:Sunday May 03, 2009

DBERR's views on the future growth of the UK economy 'New Industry, New Jobs' • Are you concerned about the state of the UK economy in the future, because I know I am, so I'll be exploring some of the issues being faced by the UK economy, especially when it comes to science, technology, engineering and industry contributions to the UK's GDP in my next few articles. • ..... View Comments

Date:Saturday May 02, 2009

Cloud Relationship-Modell (in Deutsch) • Kürzlich Philipp Strube meiner ursprünglichen genannten "Cloud Betreuungsmodell" Artikel in seinem Blog-Post "Paas, IAAS, Saas: Den Überblick zu behalten ist wie immer ein Problem für sich" . • ..... View Comments

Cloud Relationship Model (en Francais) • Récemment, Eric Bezille compris le modèle de mon "Cloud Relationship Model" article dans son blog "Sur les pas du premier Camp Cloud à Paris ...». • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Apr 30, 2009

Simon Wardley responds to my "Cloud Relationship Model" article • Simon Wardley , Software Services Manager at Canonical UK and noted Cloud Computing expert and public speaker, responds to my article " Cloud Relationship Model ", with specific mention of my paraphrasing of a talk I saw him give; and thereby explains the history behind the "*aaS" double entendre .. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Apr 27, 2009

The early history of packet switching in the UK • Read an excellent article the other week in the IEEE's Communications Magazine on the UK's contribution to early packet switching and what would evolve into Ethernet and the Internet. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Mar 05, 2009

links for 2009-03-05 • Who's responsible for all the concrete carbuncles?~ | Magazine | BBC NEWS | Le Corbusier is thought of by many in the world of architecture as the leading mind of the 20th Century, whose work preceded and defined the wholesale use of concrete in architecture, but as a new. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Mar 02, 2009

links for 2009-03-02 • 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy | Science & Environment | BBC NEWS | "What we have shown is that the English navy and its gun founders were almost 50 years ahead of their time technologically" concludes Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound of Oxford. • ..... View Comments

Date:Friday Feb 27, 2009

links for 2009-02-27 • Home repossessions rise to 40,000 | Business | BBC NEWS | Harrowing news that number of home repossessed in the UK by lenders rose by 54% to 40,000, thankfully this is less than predicted by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), however they still expect that repossessions this. • ..... View Comments

Date:Monday Feb 23, 2009

Thoughts on hearing that Northern Rock are to lend £14 Billion in mortgages • Just wanted to jot down a few thoughts on hearing that Northern Rock are to release £14 Billion into the UK economy via lending for mortgages . • ..... View Comments

Date:Friday Feb 13, 2009

links for 2009-02-13 • CBI calls for urgent Government intervention - CBI Press Release - If credit isn't available soon the recession is going to get a whole lot worse; CBI Director-General, Richard Lambert, has this week urged the Government to implement its various support packages to tackle. • ..... View Comments

Date:Saturday Feb 07, 2009

The greatest motivation poster ever conceived? 'Keep calm and carry on' links for 2009-02-07 • Soothing words and stiff upper lips | Magazine | BBC NEWS | Millions of copies of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. • ..... View Comments

Date:Friday Jan 30, 2009

links for 2009-01-30 • BBC NEWS | Education | White working class 'losing out' As if we didn't know this already "Class" still matters in the UK; working class people are losing out on several fronts, from education to housing, and the current school system is skewed in favour. • ..... View Comments

Date:Thursday Jan 29, 2009

links for 2009-01-29 • BBC NEWS | Technology | UK forges ahead with next gen net Do-it-yourself broadband (Community Broadband Network) schemes are springing up around the UK as communities refuse to wait for big firms to roll out faster networks with over 40 local broadband projects live. • ..... View Comments

Date:Sunday Jan 11, 2009

Cloud Relationship Model • This article was originally a guest post I did recently for Stewart Townsend over at Sun Startup Essentials describing the cloud relationship model I had developed as an artefact when discussing cloud computing. • ..... View Comments

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