Are antivirus companies about to get Netscaped? Microsoft’s new, free antivirus program (known as ‘Microsoft Security Essentials’) is now available to download having successfully completed a three-month beta test. As a minor aside, it should embarass Google that a relative dinosaur like Microsoft knows the correct meaning of the term and they [Google] don’t. OK, [...]
It’s been announced (although it was known on the site for months) that enWikipedia will start using the ‘flagged revisions’ system on biographies of living people. The usual old media suspects have come out of the woodwork to assert that this is the end of the encyclopedia’s open culture epitomised in its strapline “the free [...]
Well this is something of a first for this blog, six hundred and fifty posts in. A review of a cinema-release film, rather than a DVD. Being a geek I’m not a huge cinema-goer, but the lure of a Harry Potter film was enough to drag me out into that strange substance normal people call [...]
Politicians are continually going on about “e-government” and “public sector IT”. In reality much of this ends up being despotic rights-violating tracking systems, or paying someone £100,000 a year to be the government’s advisor on Twitter. In reality what we should be trying to do is – to the greatest extent possible – eliminate paper [...]
Some private schools in England are protesting that in order to benefit from charity tax breaks they are being asked to prove that they offer the public something in return. This post isn’t principally about the ‘public benefit’ test in the Charities Act 2006 (see, I actually provide you with a link to it unlike [...]