Daily Archives: November 17, 2006

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Blogging responsibly

An interesting article on the BBC site today. It is all to easy to blog away criticising any part of government or the “establishment” in general without ever stopping to make well thought through suggestions for a different approach. Substitute OS for government/establishment and perhaps some of their most vociferous critics should be reading this article. Interestingly Mathew Taylor (Tony Blair’s retiring strategy advisor) whose views are quoted in the article is leaving to head […]

Lunatics and Asylums

When you read the latest article in Guardian Technology entitled “One way street to postcode madness” Thoughts about lunatics running the asylum do come to mind. Local authorities who are the statutory street naming and numbering authorities have provided information to Royal Mail who use it as a major source of change intelligence for the Postal Address File (PAF) which RM maintains to enable them to efficiently deliver mail to our homes and offices (some […]