Peter Whitehead
Editor of FT Digital Business
editor of FT Digital Business at the Financial Times and music fan (listening and occasional performing/playing)
Financial Times
http://twitter.com/peterwhitehead
http://digitalbusiness@ft.com
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Anyone know of a simulation package like SimCity or Farmville that involves building and managing an IT system?
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File upload at 50% after 2hrs 9 mins. Cursor hovering over the Cancel button
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The 8 questions every business manager needs to ask about IT security http://www.ft.com/technology/digitalbusiness
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Next update when we hit 50%...
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File 41% uploaded - after 1hr 16 mins. We're using the free version of course, which applies a throttle (but not in a wizzy Toyota way)
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Uploading a file to sendthisfile.com. 36% uploaded after 51 minutes. It's gonna take hours - you do the math....
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Exhaust smashed off Mrs W's car by one of Surrey's billion potholes. Will the APPALLING Surrey county council compensate? Fat chance....
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Why doesn't Greece go for the Portsmouth Solution? Pop into administration, take the 9-points deduction, and - bingo - back in business...
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If you leave food in your desk drawer, mice come and eat it. Therefore - if you want a mouse, leave some food in your desk drawer
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My office neighbour Steve Johnson of FTfm fame is slowly disappearing behind a wall of paper - 2 or 3 more days and we won't see him at all.
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Jamming of GPS signals threatens vital services - and you can buy a jammer for less than £100 http://bit.ly/dt1z2R
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100th Digital Biz podcast - with Lord Digby Jones, fake websites, and testing devices in a dishwasher http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?sid=21
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17-yr-old daughter has just passed driving test. Trying VERY hard to be delighted for her
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Some people are such amazing performers they should be MADE to keep on performing. Are you listening Bill Jones....
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breakfast in the "drawing room" this morning (that's what we call them in Surrey). Kitchen out of action while floor is being vinyled
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And who says virtualisation can't be interesting? http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?sid=21
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A lawyer's view of the most important IT case for a decade... http://www.ft.com/cms/3bd54f56-21cb-11dd-a50a-000077b07658.html
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...a perfect example of how technology achieves nothing in the hands of the useless...
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Phew - Glad I'm not the poor schmuck from Churchill Insurance on the receiving end of my wife's furious (and 100% justified) phone call....
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The drilling goes on - and on - outside our office. But surely there is a limit to how far down you can drill into a bridge?
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Today's biggest IT news story? The iTablet? Or the EDS-BSkB case?
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2 yrs ago, giant cycle lanes were built on Southwark Bridge. One of them was used for a few weeks before roadworks blocked it. Now it's gone
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Why schools close for snow http://bit.ly/7uphcZ
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Just explained Twitter to a colleague - why is that sceptics are always so surprised at how much it can do?
