Monday Mar 8, 2010
Cyber Shock Wave
Kings of War has a good piece on the recent US "Cyber Shock Wave" stunt.
Thursday Dec 31, 2009
Aviation exercise mistaken for reality in Lusaka
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.
Tuesday Dec 15, 2009
Why I can't see e-cards ever catching on
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.
Friday Dec 4, 2009
Resources for PMML
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is an XML standard for the representation and exchange of data mining models.
Saturday Nov 28, 2009
New edition of the Code Igniter book
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.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2009
No gnomes here: Dutch role players take exercise too seriously.
A Dutch emergency response exercise was halted after the "role-players" got out of hand.
Friday Oct 2, 2009
A story for which the world is not yet prepared.
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.
Saturday Sep 26, 2009
London Games Festival Fringe:dying on its feet?
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.
Tuesday Sep 22, 2009
Smallworlds and related thoughts
I've just been looking at Smallworlds and some of the ideas behind it.
Sunday Aug 30, 2009
How useful are surveillance cameras?
According to a BBC report, only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year.
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