Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The congratulations are due because the company has abolished an international roaming charge and there is no way such an act should go unmarked: all the rest of my bad-tempered huffing and puffing is because it's a wee runt of a tariff: contract...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet more talks in Northern Ireland are due, and Sinn Fein decides to underline Albion's perfidy by showing off a bugging device found in one of their offices. Tuesday 14/9/2004 It's not often that radio technology has a direct effect on national...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Gratification, instant and otherwise
Blog My brother lectures in music performance and technology at SERC in Bangor, Northern Ireland. We had a discussion the other day about the joy of simple programs that get beginners going, and onto the act of creation rather than the faff of...
[June 30, 2009, 14:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The first committee room he sailed into turned out to contain a rather startled collection of Important People dealing with Northern Ireland, and you can judge for yourself over the coming weeks and months the effect Wearden's unwarranted...
[November 7, 2003, 15:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When conditions are right, you can hear stuff from thousands of miles away — including, quite bizarrely, another Ofcom experiment in Northern Ireland where it's handed out CB frequencies to parish priests wanting to broadcast services to those...
[July 14, 2006, 19:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You don't have to be a Northern Ireland politician to wonder about the advisability of installing a video camera connected to the phone line and under the direct control of some distant computer -- especially when the kerning on the vividly...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog PR C.is not answering his phone because he's in the pub with the Guardian's telco correspondent) the Northern Ireland office of BT finally comes up with the goods. Monday 02/08/2004 Some time ago, I met a Texan on a mission.
[August 6, 2004, 17:40]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog We can now work towards creating a national coordination centre to combat e-crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ACPO's 341 members are police officers of Assistant Chief Constable rank (Commanders in the Metropolitan Police and City of...
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
Some more words with Seagate
Blog What is the future of the Northern Ireland plant? He is an outgoing and cheerful man who wants he started talking to a group of journalists showed no signs of wanting to stop anytime soon. It would be a disingenuous to day that he “knows all about...
[November 7, 2008, 15:20]
