A quick survey of recruitment agencies in the technology sphere (IT and telecom) shows that the power of XML has still not made a sufficient impression on most of them. Out of the 32 recruiters I looked at, nearly 2/3 offer no XML feed (e.g. RSS or Atom) for the jobs they wish to market. In an economic climate like today’s, this difference will only be amplified.
After Google’s “This site may harm your computer” incident, I am curious what people think will happen to its share price on Monday. What do you think? Continue reading »
Having spent the morning at the London offices of Deloitte. (notice the branded full stop in green) for the launch of the annual TMT Predictions 2009, it is now time to spend the evening excavating the detail of the report with a fine trowel and brush. Present (and speaking) at the eighth year, in which Deloitte hazarded a guess as to what will be the trends in Technology, Media and Telecommunictions, were the following: Continue reading »
Having spent the morning at the London offices of Deloitte. (notice the branded full stop in green) for the launch of the annual TMT Predictions 2009, it is now time to spend the evening excavating the detail of the report with a fine trowel and brush. Present (and speaking) at the eighth year, in which Deloitte hazarded a guess as to what will be the trends in Technology, Media and Telecommunictions, were the following: Continue reading »
After a week of media focus on the hoax EU artwork by David Cerny, it is worth mentioning a story that has gone virtually unreported since December of last year. Rather than associating Bulgaria with toilets, as in Cerny’s Entropa, this event will hopefully be fondly remembered by every European as the historic turning point in the current battle for his or her civil liberties.
En særlig hilsen går derfor til norske soldater og bistandsarbeidere i Afghanistan. Det står stor respekt av den innsatsen våre militære og sivile utretter i dette hardt prøvede landet. De gir av sin tid og av sine krefter for en sak de tror på. Og noen av dem har gitt det mest dyrebare av alt: sine egne liv. Vi minnes dem i respekt og takknemlighet.
Den britiske forsvarsministeren John Hutton anklaga idag dei europeiske NATO-medlemmane for å ikkje gjera nok i Afghanistan. I følje Hutton forventar dei europeiske allierte at USA gjer heile jobben. Det er ikkje godt nok seier han og ber dei andre nasjonane som er i regionen å “step up to the plate“. “NATO må stå ilag. Det synest eg ikkje at NATO-medlemmane gjer idag,” seier Hutton.
Calling all IT professionals in London. If you are looking for a job follow ITJobsLondon on Twitter. This is a SUPER FEED that collates feeds from the recruiters that have the sense to use RSS (and valid ones at that). See you there.
The Norwegian Chief of Defence Sverre Diesen thinks the Israeli war in Gaza is irrational and has a negative effect in relation to Israel’s long-term political goal.
The Norwegian Chief of Defence describes the Israel force in the war in Gaza as “military might decoupled from its political purpose”. He thinks there are three reasons for this:
The following is a translation and a transcript of a short interview with NORWAC surgeon Erik Fosse soon after he returned to Egypt. Fosse and his colleague Mads Gilbert have spent the last two weeks at Shifa hospital in Gaza.
Sympatien fordampar ettersom trykket aukar. Til og med bestefar min på 82 år som eg åt frukost med i dag morges har fått nok. Amerikavenn har han alltid vore – “da e russaren som e’ farlige” – men nok er nok, for han og. “Står da noke i bibelen om at palestinaren er mindre verd enn andre folk?” fortal han meg at han spurde ein Israelvenn i slekta. “Da blei stilt då,” sa han. Oktogenarisk radikaler – det hadde eg aldri trudd. Men han er nok også eit eksempel på at ein ny bevissthet er i ferd med å vakna.