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Downtime
Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
January 2008
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The real European identity
29 Jan 2008 -
Coder or cannibal? Friday is fear-day...
25 Jan 2008 -
Notes from Sutton high street
25 Jan 2008
As we are all learning, 28 January was Data Protection Day. We in Britain won’t know too much about it because it is a European thing dreamed up last year by the European Council. Besides, the ...
Coder or cannibal? Can you tell the difference?
It’s amazing what you can learn about the use of technology by taking a stroll down the high street. On such a safari this week I saw at first hand two technologies, which made me question the ...
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Political donors take note
25 Jan 2008 -
Jerome Kerviel: lost billions and lost friends...
25 Jan 2008 -
Clarkson column a bit soft, but said to be accurate
24 Jan 2008 -
Pirate’s fishy dealings land him in jail with crabs
23 Jan 2008 -
Hungary dogs prepare to give voice to their desires
22 Jan 2008 -
Paxman's pants leak - does the BBC need to up its IT security training budget?
21 Jan 2008 -
Bebo's best - but what's the test?
21 Jan 2008
I was editing a story this week about how Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is implementing business intelligence software that will help it understand where donations are coming ...
Poor Jerome Kerviel. As if it wasn't bad enough that he had family problems, might have 'lost his mind a bit', has been found out as a fraduster and was perhaps the cause of the recent crash in the ...
Fraud is a terrible thing, and identity theft an unpleasant experience. Unless of course it happens to Jeremy Clarkson. “OK, so Jeremy Clarkson is a bit of a prat, but he is not wrong. With your ...
A man who sold pirated computer games, films and music to fishermen in exchange for a box of crabs has been fined £3,000. The 61-year-old intended to sell the copied discs for cash, but the fishing ...
Hungary is well known for its ancient folklore and tales of mythical monsters. Even the slogan for the tourist board translates as, “Come for the goulash, stay for the werewolves.” But now it seems ...
Oh dear, oh dear. Another day, another data security issue in celebsville. Following on from news of BBC Top Gear car hack Jeremy Clarkson's touchingly naive approach to data security, publishing ...
Bebo declared best social networking website by Which? (but only on the basis of one lonely reviewer's opinion).
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Bupa proves IT staff to be better at lying than dieting
21 Jan 2008 -
Bill Gates celebrity-studded retirement plans spoof video
18 Jan 2008 -
Exploding laptops ring in the new year
13 Jan 2008 -
Six billion dollar IT man(ager)
12 Jan 2008 -
Queen warms to Will’s Wii
11 Jan 2008
For a long time IT professionals have been spoken of as the very zenith of amateur athleticism. But, alas, it is not so. According to Bupa’s corporate healthcare assessment of the sector, one in 10 ...
Watch the celebrity-studded Bill Gates retirement options video.
If you received a laptop this Christmas, be warned: they might not be the tokens of love and affection you think. Several Korean newspapers have reported that a laptop owned by a local journalist ...
A career in IT is not generally conducive to an active lifestyle - outside of those late night Wii-bashing sessions. However, the Metro newspaper reported on one IT manager who has bucked the trend ...
Downtime may end up in the Tower of London as a result of a headline that took all of two seconds to come up with. Yes, folks, according to that beacon of journalistic professionalism, The People, ...