Air-traffic-control glitch hits London area
News An unspecified computer problem caused major disruptions to air traffic in the south east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports [25 Sep 2008]
Gatwick air traffic control failure
Blog Gatwick airport has suffered a brief loss of air traffic control systems this afternoon. I'm currently sat in Jersey airport, where staff announced there was a "failure of UK air traffic control".... [25 Sep 2008]
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.......
Blog Turns out power was restored at work on Monday but I had an insurance adjuster coming so I didn't go into work until yesterday. Of course everybody had to tell their hurricane tales but one guy... [25 Sep 2008]
Lessons learned or confirmed from IKE
Blog Not in any particular order or priority. 1) I have some really nice neighbors. 2) Nothing beats having a gas powered chain saw. 3) You can't have enough gas to drive your AC generator. ... [18 Sep 2008]
BT offers on-site tech repairs to small businesses
News The on-site hardware repair service, previously available only to BT's large corporate customers, covers problems with PCs, laptops and servers [18 Sep 2008]
LSE connectivity glitch halts trading
Blog At the time of writing, trading on the London Stock Exchange is not happening, and hasn't been possible since before 9 o'clock this morning (trading began smoothly at 8, as usual, but something... [08 Sep 2008]
The Misery Tab is Paid Again by the Big Easy
Blog Looks like we're (Houston area) going to miss the worst but the cost is going to be paid by New Orleans. Landfall of the eye is likely to be almost due-south of New Orleans. That means that they... [31 Aug 2008]
Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog There have been some hurricanes that have hit Houston square-on, Alicia in 1983 and Allison in 2001. Alicia was notable for the damage it did to buildings due to the high winds. All the... [26 Jul 2008]
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The Metropolitan Police Service aims to recover from HM Revenue & Customs the full £473,544 cost of the search for the missing child-benefit CDs [21 Jul 2008]
Update: Tech charity says could have saved many lives
Blog Just received this update quote, to an earlier blog , from Jean-François Cazenave, president of Telecoms Sans Frontieres, commenting on the fact that the organisation announced today that it has... [25 Jun 2008]
Tech charity quits Burma following government blocks
Blog I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans Frontieres, a charity that specialises in setting up telecoms equipment in disaster zones has quit Burma in the face of repeated attempts to block... [25 Jun 2008]
No cheese in Switzerland
Blog It's half past one in the morning, Continental time, and I'm about to go to bed without any supper. I'm over in Zurich courtesy of IBM, which is going to be showing off a lot of its new... [24 Jun 2008]
HP adds fault tolerance to blades
News High availability is the main feature of HP's latest blade server as the company grows its family of c-Class systems [17 Jun 2008]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday [09 Jun 2008]
DWP punishes 20 staff for data-protection breaches
News The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted disciplining 20 staff in the past financial year over data-protection infringements [04 Jun 2008]
Companies told to disclose data breaches
News The EU's online security body is calling for mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses [28 May 2008]
ICT emergency planning starts with Gatwick evac
Blog I have just arrived in a damp yet picturesque Pisa to observe, and maybe even take part in an ICT Emergency response training day hosted by the World Food Programme, The United Nations Foundation... [20 May 2008]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses [09 May 2008]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough [08 May 2008]
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News HM Customs & Revenue has reprimanded over 600 staff since 2005 for data-protection breaches, including 11 'major' incidents [01 May 2008]
