Jan
23
Where everyone’s above average…
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Danny Ayers points to an online Mensa test where you have to expand all the phrases (”24 H in a D” = “24 Hours in a Day”, etc).
They claim that scoring 19+ (out of 33) is “genius” level. So I felt pretty good about getting 29 correct in 10 minutes. But then I noticed that [...]
Jan
17
DETI FOI Appeal, ctd.
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I have received an update from DETI on my FOI Appeal from November, where I challenged their right to withold information on the tender process for the production on an E-government Strategy (a project that eventually came in £150k over its initial budget of £30k).
Apparently “the Department is now minded to release a range of [...]
Jan
14
Security Through Obscurity
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In June of last year, a report was provided to the Belfast City Council Policy and Resources (Members) Sub-Committee on the Pilot Study that had been carried out to investigate providing information to the Councillors electronically. Belfast City Council uses over 12.5 million sheets of copying paper per year, and a large number of these [...]