Archive for June, 2011

Travellers’ tales from Palestine

Monday, June 27th, 2011

I recently came across two accounts of American tourists in Palestine – the first one filled me with despair; the second one with hope. See what affect they have on you. The first was an account of a “mission” to Israel by Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) (do watch the embedded video). I should [...]

FiT for purpose?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

We’ve just submitted the quarterly meter reading of the electricity produced by our solar PV system so we can receive our Feed In Tariff (FiT) payments. The good news is that – thanks to a sunny April – the system is on track to meet its design output for the year. The bad news is [...]

What’s in a name?

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

During my time working in IT in big corporates, I would occasionally come across places where the use of open source software was ‘against company policy’ for one reason or another. I refrained from asking them to investigate their firewalls, routers, digital cameras, printers, photocopiers, etc. etc., but I did occasionally ask them which webservers [...]