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A Coda….

It’s been a week since we said goodbye to my mother, and I’m coming to the end of a short period of rest and reflection in Madrid.  I wanted to do three more things related to her passing.  The first is to thank all those who via this site, or Facebook, or directly, sent their…

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New New New

In something of a surprising turn of events, I have managed to get quite a few things done this last week.  Notably, a new web site, for deeply technical photography matters, and a new portfolio page for my photographs.  Both of these have new and unique domain names.  Somebody stop me! Firstly the new web…

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I’m not excited

I had a great, almost charmed life as an IBM executive.  One of the things I don’t miss about the company though was the requirement at around this time of year to convey my “excitement at the challenges ahead” to the troops at the new year kick-off meeting.  For the English, a public display of…

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NSA, GCHQ, and XKeyscore – missing nothing

The Guardian in the last month has confirmed more or less everything I wrote back in June on Prism/Boundless intrusion.  It’s true, tthe NSA/GCHQ are seeing everything.   It’s not clear whether today’s revelations show that Snowden is still releasing information after his temporary asylum into Russia or whether it was done before he left…

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