There have been two publications this week that have caught my attention, and I have been a bit surprised by the lack of reaction to them. The first was from the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit, entitled Power in people’s hands: learning from the world’s best public services and the second from the Lords Information Committee [...]
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January 13, 2009
My virgin theme
Please just ignore me whilst I have a bit of a fiddle with the site. Am too old for the photoshopped, ten year old version of me… will do something with the theme shortly.
October 9, 2008
Laura Whitehead’s wonderful post on information overload
In the interest of fairness, I am sending you all off to read Laura’s superb post on digital information management/life balance. Laura is a fan of twitter, and explains here how best to use it, amongst other things.
Laura also refers to Beth Kanter’s blog post that includes a little test to judge how overloaded you [...]
October 1, 2008
My pink blog
My blog is pink, well – because I am too lazy/busy to sort css – strictly speaking my (8 yr old v touched up picture) is PINK!
Why? Because I was reminded on twitter earlier that it is Breast Cancer awareness month, and this is what we are doing (as ‘bloggers’).
So go here and read all [...]
September 28, 2008
Sunday pleasure for you
I love books, especially old ones – and should really have been a librarian, or at least had a walk on part in Black Books. Anyhoo, here is a wonderful blog with great book photos and a little dialogue. Just is a small piece of joy – discovered by everyone’s fave CIO.
September 22, 2008
Prison reform in Kenya
Quite a la-di-da post title for me
My pal Tom’s girlfriend asked me to re-post her appeal letter on the www.justicefortom.com website (appeal that is for cash to make prisoners’ and remandees’ lives better in Kenya). I have done so, but whilst tweaking the spelling (sorry Sally) I re-read the post and what she [...]
September 21, 2008
Tea – c/o my old school mate Robert Brook esq
http://robertbrook.com/2008/09/21/tea/
September 20, 2008
Am breaking! Am breaking!
My delicious friend Tiffany St James is sitting next to me in Penny Hill Park Business Centre (yes there is such a thing ). The rugby is on behind us, we are sipping Bellinis, Emily Bone is reclining looking rather fabulous AND…
Tiffany has just launched her Blog – at last, I cry!
Here it is, [...]
September 17, 2008
Putting a little perspective on life
Carl Haggerty is a pal of mine and has written a humbling post about how he and his family have coped with his wife’s cancer. It is one of those things you read that serves as a timely and gentle reminder of what we might take for granted.
http://carlhaggerty.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/a-personal-story-part-3/
