I went to see Matrix Revolutions tonight. I can without doubt say I loved it!
After the frankly mediocre Reloaded, I was pleasantly surprised. I thought this was a great film, they got the mix of jaw dropping special effects and almost bewildering plot revelations just right. I won’t spoil the plot for anyone who hasn’t yet seen it, but I will say that the final events and explanations around Neo, Mr Smith, The Oracle, et al were quite satisfactory.
There were some issues which stretched the credulity of even a hardened Sci Fi fan like me, but that’s no surprise given the foundations of the Matrix world.
All in all recommended.
MoD writes off £118m on ditched IT system
I find these numbers staggering, but this story over at silicon.com details how the MoD has written off a project which has so far cost £130 million! They will be keeping the hardware they already bought for £12.2 million, resulting in a write off value of approximately £118 million.
The Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) – the MoD’s internal buying arm – canned a single common inventory project called Defence Stores Management Solution (DSMS), which would have enabled more accurate tailoring of stock holdings, after executives found the benefits did not outweigh the costs.
The department estimates £130.5m was incurred on DSMS, although £12.2m of hardware was retained for future use, leaving £118.5m written off without the system ever seeing the light of day.
As a result of this they will be overhauling their project and risk management. Hmmm, yes that may be a good idea!
Old Halloween Theme
I’m being totally lazy in not creating a new theme for this year. I’ve just dragged last years theme out of the folder. In fact it was a one word change in one file! Happy Halloween.
Go Tim!
World Wide Web Consortium Presents US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent
bq. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML and the web, today presented the U.S. Patent Office with prior art establishing that the Eolas patent is invalid and should be re-examined.
Hat tip: Jeffrey Zeldman.
Go Me!
Wow, it is now six months! since I last smoked a cigarette. I feel quite pleased with myself about that. Of course, Jan has not smoked for a month or so more.
Oops
Oh no! It seems emails to (one of) my zed1.com account(s) have been bouncing because I had exceeded my quota. I didn’t even know I had a quota! (at least one which wasn’t included in my hosting quota) but I do. It is 50MB and yes, it was full. I have managed to delete all the virus/worm generated emails with binary payloads and released over 40MB of space. Ouch! that’s a lot of mail!
So if anyone has sent me email to my personal zed1.com account in the last 24 48 hours you may want to send it again.
Old Stories Never Die
Wow, looking in my sidebar I noticed that my most popular story (as measured by number of comments) is exactly one year old today.. And people are still commenting on it.
Sponsorship
This struck me as smirkingly amusing…
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