A thought bubble about service-level agreements.
It is very common in IT to see “Service Level Agreements” specifying a certain amount of uptime. This is usually considered in “nines”: when someone talks about five nines, they’re referring to 99.999%...
View ArticleTwo links on the topic of medical IT
Some of you might know that I’ve harboured a small enthusiasm for aggressively using IT to drive down costs of health care, as well as improving quality, safety and providing data for researchers. In...
View ArticleThe Electoral Reform Dream Paper
The Electoral Reform Greenpaper has mostly received coverage for the two particularly stupid proposals that are raised: lowering the age of franchise and replacing the paper ballot with electronic or —...
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What a Curious Coincidence
Seen on Slashdot’s front page today: Seems that for a crime to count, it first has to hit the high and mighty.
View ArticleUpsetting the natural order
A lot of progress (and sometimes, regress) in computer science and software engineering seems to come from rejecting, modifying or otherwise modifying the “natural order”. By natural order I refer to...
View ArticleA small taste of development life
Jon Skeet explains that human complexity is one of the causes of software complexity. Everything you might think is simple — numbers, letters and dates — is actually devilishly tricky. Continue reading →
View ArticleI’ve also found this to be true
Based on current feedback, I’d say paying a lawyer to talk about software patents at this point would be like setting money on fire. – Ryan Gordon Continue reading →
View ArticleGoogle develops moral minerals
Google’s announced that they were the subject of a precise and sophisticated attack, apparently aimed at getting access to the GMail accounts of pro-democracy critics of the Chinese Communist regime,...
View ArticleNew Zealand has better IT policy than Australia
Firstly, they don’t have Stephen Conroy. Secondly, they’re not going to introduce software patents. NZ: 2. Australia: Sux.
View ArticleIf you rely on refereed material …
Then a lot of stuff that happened just 10-15 years ago didn’t happen at all. Some of my research is done “Just In Time”. I think of something I want to refer to, then I hit up IEEE Xplore and the ACM...
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