I recall that not too long ago, Google Earth released the latest satellite photos for an area over west Nevada on 9th September 2007, to help search for the wreckage of renowned adventurer, Steve Fosset, who crashed on 3rd September 2007.

It strikes me that the same thing could be ...

It occurs to me that CAPTHCHA could be somewhat better and indeed is. CAPTCHA has been a staple of Web 2.0 and is fairly effective for the purpose it serves. We know that it is possible to circumvent captcha, delivering users looking at a porn site CAPTCHA images and ...

Once again, it seems as if there may be a simple solution to a grave problem, teenage pregnancy. As always these things need some thinking about. On the surface, it makes sense.

Make it a legal requirement that teenage boys from the age of x to y, have to carry ...

Google has a fault in its longer term business strategy.

I am not intending a pun here, however it is fairly punny.

Google along with the entire Silicon Valley USA, coined in January 1971, have a fairly bleak outlook at some point in the future. Not to be a doomsday ...

Google has a fault in its longer term business strategy.

I am not intending a pun here, however it is fairly punny.

Google along with the entire Silicon Valley USA, coined in January 1971, have a fairly bleak outlook at some point in the future. Not to be a doomsday ...

In a lunchtime follow up to my post yesterday on the hacker that stole the Virginia medical records, I think the comedy of the event for this poor soul has not been looked at yet and you have to wonder about this poor fool.

The ransom demand is brazen at ...

The Register is reporting an interesting story on a hacker or hackers demanding $10 million as a ransom of Virginia medical data from the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program. Unsurprising all enquiries are be routed to the director of the Virginia Department of Health Professionals, who is presently unavailable.

According to ...

Gordon Brown - wasting money again on Tamiflu?

It may be possible that some from of resistance has already been established in some H1N1 strains due to a vaccine mismatch which has driven a spread of H1N1 Tamiflu resistance. This is something I have stumbled across. It was commented on in ...

We are now getting reports of the virus having been transmitted from humans to pigs. This is a significant development as it means that another "device" on the network can spread the virus. It is akin to a computer virus, hoping into another operating system and being able to infect ...

The second wave is coming, anybody watching wikipedia's Swine Flu page or Dr Niman's Google map or healthmap on twitter, will be seeing signs of that now. The pattern in the information is changing context and scale. Ask any systems administrator. We are in a pandemic, whether this ...