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End of a Century (C20 CV)

In Information on 30 March 2004 with 1 comment

This discursive CV was originally published in 1999 in the online newsletter of The National Digital Archive of Datasets.
I left school in 1985 and started work at the Metropolitan Police Department of Computer Services in Putney, which benevolent organisation kindly undertook to school me in the use of ICL mainframes and databases. On arrival I [...]

“Ask the audience” with Google

In Information, Translating on 29 March 2004 with Comments Off

I don’t generally travel with all the reference books I’d need to make a reasonable stab at writing anything complicated in any of the languages I’m vaguely familiar with (French, Italian, Russian). There are lots of online resources, but they can be time consuming to lookup and use. The good news, for anyone who’s [...]