Long live the Beeb

Tagged with: personal computing

Chris Gabriel, about 1 month ago

Well the creators of the BBC Micro met last week at the Science Museum in London to celebrate the birth of this (and let me be a bit soppy here) beautiful invention.I was driving down the M4 when I heard it on Radio 4 and I was immediately taken back to my teens, and Computing Club at the War Memorial Club in Wrexham every Thursday night, and, the time I now argue when actually being computer literate meant being able to actually program a computer.Computer Club (and the Beeb) was a clear demonstration of social class. The Beeb owners, sons...

Green IT or Purple IT, you decide.

Tagged with: green it, efficient server virtualisation, soa, paper, process

Chris Gabriel, 3 months ago

I have spent so much time recently saving the planet that I have quite forgot to write anything in my BLOG (I was also trying to reduce the strain on the digital universe). You see my Green IT credentials have grown so much in the last few months that I am literally expecting a call from the Vatican any day now, although I think my surname might cause a bit of a problem at the naming ceremony.It is amazing though that all end users I talk to now want to know is ‘what's the ROI' on this supposed green project....

Will our data footprint start paying dividends?

Chris Gabriel, 4 months ago

There is much ado now about the amount of data everybody holds on us; from the government to the supermarkets. We are all now franticly wondering who is going to give our next chunk of private information to an unsuspecting postal worker, or lose a hard drive in Chicago (By the way, I thought the Data Protection Act stopped people off shoring data out of Europe without our permission?). Although you do realise those CDs will be delivered in 2070, like that post card from a holiday in 1973 that's just turned up and everybody will wonder what the hell...