The Slough of Despond
The winter sunshine is bright enough to force a permanent squint, even with my sunglasses on. A perfect day to go flying I thought but at the same time, I wondered how the grass runway at Maypole had stood up to a week's rain.
The answer is that it hasn't, as I discovered as I sank up to the tops of my boots in muddy water. One other optimistic pilot had taken off this morning but the marsh-like conditions leave very little room for error and the last thing I want is to find myself diving into a swamp when I should be climbing into the air.
I'm going to have to wait until it dries out, which could be weeks at this time of year. Meanwhile, several small helicopters from Manston are flitting around in the sunshine overhead;like large dragonflies, rubbing-in the fact that I'm grounded until the end of the rainy season here in Kent.
I hate helicopters.
The Mandate of Heaven
eGov Monitor Version
“Parliament”, said my distinguished friend “has always leaked like a sieve”.
I’m researching the thorny issue of ‘Confidence in Public Sector Computing’ and we were discussing the dangers presented by the Internet. In his opinion, information security is an oxymoron, which has no place being discussed in a Parliament built upon the uninterrupted flow of information of every kind, from the politically sensitive to the most salacious and mundane.
With the threat of war hanging over us, I asked if MPs should be more aware of the risks that surround this new communications medium? More importantly, shouldn’t the same policies and precautions that any business might use to protect itself and its staff, be available to MPs?
What concerns me is that my well-respected friend mostly considers security in terms of guns, gates and guards. He now uses the Internet almost as much as he uses the telephone and the Fax machine and yet the growing collective t…
eGov Monitor Version
“Parliament”, said my distinguished friend “has always leaked like a sieve”.
I’m researching the thorny issue of ‘Confidence in Public Sector Computing’ and we were discussing the dangers presented by the Internet. In his opinion, information security is an oxymoron, which has no place being discussed in a Parliament built upon the uninterrupted flow of information of every kind, from the politically sensitive to the most salacious and mundane.
With the threat of war hanging over us, I asked if MPs should be more aware of the risks that surround this new communications medium? More importantly, shouldn’t the same policies and precautions that any business might use to protect itself and its staff, be available to MPs?
What concerns me is that my well-respected friend mostly considers security in terms of guns, gates and guards. He now uses the Internet almost as much as he uses the telephone and the Fax machine and yet the growing collective t…
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