Archive for November, 2007
ahem… Information Quality problem with the trains…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/eurostar_glitch/
Again culled from el Reg, here’s an example of an information quality problem that prevents a process (a very trivial process) from being completed.
It seems that the on-line booking system for the EuroStar train linking the UK with Europe doesn’t recognise the existence of the 29th of February 2008. As the leap year day is […]We all know toddlers are terrors…
… but this story (again culled from The Register.co.uk) shows the lengths the US government goes to to stop these known terrors from getting on planes via the Terrorist Screening lists maintained by the Dept Homeland Security.
“USA Today tells the story of a Disney World-loving 6-year-old who shares a name with someone on the “additional […]What’s in a number?
From the ever vigilant The Register comes a story of a man who was detained by authorities for 50 days due to an error on the part of his ISP in identifying who had used a particular IP address to upload satirical images of a revered Indian (as in sub-continent, not Native American) leader of […]
