Simulation Feed

Cyber Shock Wave

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:43 GMT

Kings of War has a good piece on the recent US "Cyber Shock Wave" stunt.

Aviation exercise mistaken for reality in Lusaka

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:39:21 GMT

According to the Times of Zambia an emergency response exercise caused panic in Lusaka on 30 December 2009 when it was mistaken for a real aircraft crash.

Why I can't see e-cards ever catching on

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:32:49 GMT

Christmas Cards have become a marketing wheeze fuelled largely by guilt, with little relevance to the religious implications of the festival. But even they are better than this sort of thing.

Resources for PMML

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:41:50 GMT

Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is an XML standard for the representation and exchange of data mining models.

New edition of the Code Igniter book

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:50:55 GMT

A new edition of my CodeIgniter book is now out. I had nothing to do with it, as I've been too busy! Looks good.

No gnomes here: Dutch role players take exercise too seriously.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:47 GMT

A Dutch emergency response exercise was halted after the "role-players" got out of hand.

A story for which the world is not yet prepared.

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:15:11 GMT

University resilience is not as good as we thought: Florida has removed from its web-site a disaster response exercise to meet a zombie invasion.

London Games Festival Fringe:dying on its feet?

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:27:25 GMT

Last year I organised an LGFF meeting at Birkbeck. This year I thought about it, but was partly put off by pressure of work, and also by the general lack of enthusiasm. Opportunities are being missed here, ELSPA or LDA or whoever you are.

Smallworlds and related thoughts

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:54:19 GMT

I've just been looking at Smallworlds and some of the ideas behind it.

How useful are surveillance cameras?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:07:29 GMT

According to a BBC report, only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year.