Archive for June, 2005
June 28th, 2005
Identity Cards
I have signed the pledgebank pledge against Identity cards, the Home Office’s insane scheme to give 10 billion pounds of taxpayers money to the IT industry.
June 27th, 2005
London Underground accelerated time disruption map
One of the things I noticed during travels round the world was that everywhere else we went, the trains ran on time. Thailand, Argentina, Korea, Tokyo (where if your train is late you get a note to show your boss, I hear), in all these places, a late train would be an event. If you […]
June 21st, 2005
Newsnight G8 blog breaks free from Auntie
The length of time it takes the BBC to do anything online is legendary (still waiting for that email, Pete!, and many people there have expressed frustration over the years, and a temptation to just set something up elsewhere so they can get on with it.
The Newsnight G8 blog looks official enough until […]
June 9th, 2005
Wikiproxy Greasemonkey script
Matthew Gertner has taken the wikiproxy idea and run with it. Using an API that I created to do the database lookups (publicly available for all who want to play with it!) he created a Greasemonkey script that adds links to wikipedia entries from any web page you’re browsing.
Read all about it
June 1st, 2005
Parliament website under fire
The UK’s Parliament website needs a radical overhaul, according to a report by the Hansard Society
No shit.
I hope that if something does come of this, that Parliament comes to TheyWorkForYou and engages us in dialogue about what they could do with the site.