Archive for October, 2009
Leave Our Net Alone!
Vivendi can go stick this up their arse as far as I am concerned… http://expressurl.net/ws/338 Like it or lump it, the Internet is a playground where people are still relatively free. Piracy of content has always gone on – tape recorders were never banned, so why should file sharing? I can tell you right now [...]
OK, Admit It, Who Voted For The Idiot?
In an environment where Western Australia’s prisons are overcrowded, the police are overstretched, and with no sign of any easing of the pressure, what would be the most obvious thing to do? Apparently, according to our “esteemed” State Premier Colin Barnett, what you should do in this situation is insist on 3% “efficiency savings” across [...]
Back to Basics
Having spent the best part of 20 years developing business software, it occurs to me that the business software industry, and the business users/consumers of the software, have (perhaps unwittingly) led us down the garden path. The idea of a computerised system that captures and models the very essence of a business, automating the decision-making process, [...]
