HMRC loses records on 25 million people in the post | OUT-LAW.COM

HMRC loses records on 25 million people in the post | OUT-LAW.COM

When I said 'free our data' I didn't mean that data!

Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them

I'm interested in free public data from a personal and professional perspective - it's moderately ludicrous that I can't easily get a list of all the schools in the UK and I wish I could get raw mapping data todo what I want with it rather than what some 'trading fund' thinks I should do...


Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them: "On March 9 2006 the Guardian's Technology supplement carried an article called 'Give us back our crown jewels'. The argument is simple: government-funded and approved agencies such as the Ordnance Survey and UK Hydrographic Office and Highways Agency are government-owned agencies; they collect data on our behalf. So why can't we get at that data as easily as we can Google Maps or the Xtides program? Even though OS and the UK Hydrographic Office are designated as trading funds (which means that they operate as self-contained commercial entities receiving no direct tax funding), substantial parts of their income - up to 50% in the case of OS - comes from the public sector; meaning, in effect, they are part-paid by taxes. Yet they charge for that data, with onerous copyright restrictions that prevent the re-use of the data."

IE7 not showing directly linked .swf/flash files

Error on page. Bug -
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
Google Groups
: "Fix: In IE, go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab, scroll down to Security and uncheck the second box: Allow active content to run in files on my computer*."

I had a few people email me saying that IE7 will not open direct links to flash files eg like this and until now I've been unable to replicate the problem, but applying the reverse of the above does stop flash files working (may affect pdfs aswell )

Vista first look: Bugs and confusion | The Register

Vista first look: Bugs and confusion | The Register : "So, there's our first look at Vista. It does benefit from a lot of good ideas, many of them Apple's, of course, but good nevertheless. It simply doesn't work very well, unfortunately. There are serious problems with execution; it's not polished; it's not ready. It should not be on the market, and certainly not for the outrageous prices being charged. Don't buy it, at least until after the first service pack is out. Don't pay to be a beta tester"

You won't have to tell me twice not to buy vista! It appears to have very little improved functionality and a big lump of bugs.