Yesterday Steve Coast posted some proposals for a redesign of the OpenStreetMap web site. It has been recognised for some time by those involved in writing and running the site that a redesign was needed so it is good to see somebody trying to do something about it. That said, I wasn’t (as I made [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
BT: The Unstoppable Phone Spam Machine
After my last run in with BT when they called me (in breach of the regulations on unsolicited marketing calls) to offer me a Visa Card I filed a complaint with the Telephone Preference Service. I few weeks later I got a letter from BT Complaints Managment saying that my complaint had been passed on [...]
Research Fail
Recently I received a fairly typical “please do my research for me” email from a graduate student at a US university. It related to an open source software project I’ve done some work on and asked a couple of questions: 1. I was wondering if [project] has gone under any major restructuring/redesign initiative in its [...]