The British Computer Society’s Data Centre Specialist Group has released a beta version of their data centre cost and energy simulator to members of the specialist group. The simulator has come out of the Carbon Trust’s Low Carbon Collaboration initiative jointly funded by BCS and Romonet. Here are my first impressions from the preview a few weeks ago.
Earlier this week Dell launched a new Website subsection targeted at women called ‘Della’. The site is incredibly patronising and grossly sexist, offending me and many other women, both techies and non-techies alike. Read my letter here, and send your own!
Twitter recently announced that they would be removing replies to people you do not follow from the timeline. In my view, and that of just about everyone I know and follow, that is highly undesirable and eliminates a large part of what was unique about Twitter. Now it has taken a giant leap back in time to IRC-days.
Last month I had a brief spot on CNBC due to our inclusion in the 2008 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50. It is a two minute spot where I talk about what has driven our rapid growth, and some of the challenges that has brought us. Watch the video here.
Harriet Harmon’s surprise inclusion of gender pay audits in the equality bill is very welcome, and the concerns over the action are easily dismissed. But what will the bill actually stipulate? I have extracted a few key elements from the summary document: A Fairer Future. The Equality Bill and other action to make equality a reality. (PDF)