Computer Weekly Editor's Blog

Every week, (at least once a week) I thought I would add a picture to this blog, because despite technology not seeming to be particularly photogenic, there are some very clever constructs out there, like this one. Visual yet stimulating. Let me know what you think and send us a witty or clever caption if you can think of one.

Firenzesca's other images.

Well this week's image of the week has to be the photos taken by Computer Weekly journalist JP Kamath while he was covering Heathrow's RFID trial on passenger's baggage.

More images from RFID project at Heathrow

And if you want more analysis on this story then see David Bicknell's RFID blog.

Perhaps the open source community will now see the halo atop of Bill Gates's head following the news that Microsoft is going to make available its internal application programming interfaces for MS Office and Windows protocols.

My colleague Cliff Saran sums up the significance of this news on his FUD blog.

Also see this on CW.com - Microsoft says it will launch an open source interoperability initiative

Image credit: Matt Elder

Congratulations to the IT departments that helped raise £100,000 for charity by taking part in last weekend's Three Peaks Challenge, supported by Computer Weekly.

The sponsored teams climbed Britain's three biggest mountains in under 24 hours: Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in Cumbria's Lake District, and Mount Snowdon in North Wales.

Richard Preston of the FMC Technologies team enjoys the view in this first of our photos from the event.

More photos follow below...

Normally on Friday the editor's blog attempts to bring you a round up of some of the funniest or most intriguing things we've spotted on the web, like the Internet meme rock videos on YouTube. But having been a wee bit late in this morning, I've been feeling the need to make up for lost time all day. No, Friday's no time for fun, it's productivity all the way for me, honest, guv.

So, first, I've been researching whether or not I should get an iPhone 3G when they hit the stores (conveniently forgetting the fact that price cut or not, you do still need to have some spare cash in hand, whereas my spending habits are rather more in line with the shopaholic IT consultant spotted on our Downtime blog...)

The 3G iPhone's enterprise ready, says Apple, despite some analysts raising security concerns. And okay, the company probably won't allow me to connect it to the corporate network. But would it help me do my job as a deputy web editor? You know, online content production, supporting our in-house digital journalists, that kind of thing...

Follow the link or scroll on for what the reviewer from Stuff magazine had to say:

What's ComputerWeekly.com really about, right now? This, according to word-cloud generating service Wordle's view of the text on our home page at 16:26 today:

I think Wordle word clouds could make fantastic quick and easy business cards for Web 2.0 types and bloggers. Whack your CV or your blog into Wordle, screengrab your Wordle cloud and pop that into Flickr (remembering to thank and link Wordle for their Creative Commons kindness, in a good online citizen kind of a way) and then use card-print service Moo. Business cards created and ordered in under an hour without leaving your desk! All you'll have to wait for is the post - it could put your local copy shop out of business!

Thanks for the heads-up on this service to both Ian Grant and fellow CW blogger, Ian White.