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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff
I would be very interested in commencing a serious dialogue with the Earl of Northesk, could you politely ask his permission to pass his email address on to me so I can do this?
Thanks
Alexander Hanff
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By the way I know I have been quiet on the forums today, but please don't take this as a sign that I am not doing anything.
I caught up on a little sleep today (after being up all night again last night) but I am still very much actively engaged in this campaign.
My workload has basically tripled since the meeting on Tuesday and I am being hit with enquiries from all sides at the moment so I apologise if it takes me a little longer to address concerns on this forum.
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its to be expected Alexander, the work load will seem high but the effective management of your time is key, but you know that being IT.
round robin multitasking is fine, but not so effective once you reach saturation point on the core tasks/kernel, effective user space application multitasking is the key.
LOl, it sounds very much like the amiga multitasking way is still best, even when you apply it to real world lives and tasks.
btw incase people didnt see this Lord Erroll on Govt IT (perhaps another email cc is required there! or perhaps your reading this ? wave and contribute if you are
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...nt.hitechcrime
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One lord leaping on the government's IT flaws
Lord Erroll, Secretary to the All Party Internet Group in the Lords, is a leading light in the movement to protect our security online
Richard Sarson
The Guardian, Thursday April 10 2008
A programmer and system designer by trade, Lord Erroll is giving the government grief about cybercrime. Merlin, the Earl of Erroll, is the spokesman for the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee's report on personal internet security...."
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Fit for purpose?
To his amusement, the government's "fit for purpose" claim now looks decidedly dodgy. He believes that it has finally sunk in that the danger is not just the loss of personal data but the potential for fraud.
Not surprisingly, Erroll and his colleagues on the Science and Technology Committee are having another go at civil servants and ministers, with a follow-up inquiry and report early in the summer. As
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan,
another (ex-MP, Labour)
member of the committee, says: "We have your phone number. We'll be in touch".
It looks, sometimes, as though the Lords are more relentless than the Commons at taking a hard look at government IT policy. The Lords debate the technical merits of IT projects, where the Commons make them party-political.
This may be because peers can have more recent hands-on experience than MPs, who tend to lose their IT expertise bit by bit once they enter the House....
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Erroll gets support in IT matters from his fellow peers, notably
Lord Lucas, the
Earl of Northesk, and
Lord St John of Bletso.
All have involvement of some sort with internet firms. Counterintuitively, they are all hereditary peers and, like Erroll, independents with no firm political allegiance.
Life peers such as
Lord Harris and
Lord Kirkwood, who came to an interest in IT later in life, are also supportive. But life peers with hard IT experience are thin on the ground.
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