Tim has a long record in the Telemarketing and consultancy arena and was one of the first proponents of Direct Marketing in the UK as a business to business tool. At Gartner between 1998 and 2003, the world's largest IT research, measurement, consulting and event organisation, Tim was the global expert in EEC Data Privacy legislation and compliance, driving global compliance with national legislation. A good proportion of Gartner's published Data Protection Compliance research is published around Tim's work as Gartner's Chief Privacy Officer for Europe, Africa and the Middle East . He is one of Europe 's leading experts in compliance with data privacy regulations, and is in the forefront of implementing Permission Based Marketing. He publishes regular articles on Data Protection.
He tries to blog daily, and brings a unique insight to matters of Data Privacy.
Thermostats and Central Heating
All my life I have had a hate-hate relationship with the humble room thermostat. Today we have an electronic one. I can see the temperature it is set at and it shows me the temperature it knows the room to be at. Even if the actual number is wrong, it knows, or should know, when the room gets cold and the heating needs to be boosted. Its job is to keep the temperature as near constant as possible
In praise of the humble Beetroot
A while ago I wondered "Why don't we have roast beetroot? We have roast parsnips and roast potatoes, but beetroot seems consigned to the pickle jar."
The next time we had a roast dinner we cut up some raw beetroot and put it round the meat with the onions and parsnips. It was absolutely delicious, and so far removed from the evil purple pickled root vegetable it was amazing.
Since then the
Stand Up!
Cobb Students Make Anti-Bullying Movie: MyFoxATLANTA.com
Real movie by real students, looking at a real problem.
So, why did I Come Out? What's my story?
After posting about Coming Out Day earlier today I carried on thinking. I never used the day and date as a cue. I used emotion, and I used being sick and tired of feeling I was leading a double life. I had these things going through my mind:
I'm married, to a lovely lady whom I adore. I don't want to hurt her by Coming Out and make others think odd things about her or talk about her weirdly
So, That was International Coming Out Day
I spent yesterday wondering why anyone would choose 11 October to Come Out and tell the world their innermost and most personal thing. Today, 12 October, is the anniversary of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, killed for being homosexual, killed for fun, killed brutally. The two dates together got me thinking more than either single event could have done.
Every time I look at Matthew's
Sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander
The other day a friend posted this picture on Facebook. It comes from an organisation that does its level best to use Facebook's internal reporting systems to have overtly bigoted pages taken down. In between crusades it publishes useful material in the fight for equality. This picture is one such item
A friend shared the picture on his page. It expresses a simple thing: that, regardless of
Devon Air Ambulance lands on Coronation Park in Dartmouth
At just past 2:30 this afternoon, Devon Air Ambulance landed on Dartmouth's only flat piece of land in the town, Coronation Park. We get a lot of helicopter activity because of Britannia Royal Naval College. We've had two low flying Lynxes already today, but this one has a different engine note entirely.
Just touched down
Leaving
Making a vertical ascent
[The pictures embiggen into a
Sudden Death of a Friend
More years ago than I care to remember, or actually in 1965, I went to a new school. My Head of House was Neil Burman, a boy four years my elder. I respected Neil when I was a boy. Many years later I met him as a man and liked him immensely. We met in London on 23 June 2009.
Neil, on the right, was over here recording tracks for his amateur band's amateur CD. We had lunch in a chain
Wonderful weekend away
Oh lord, too much fun to even think of detailing here. But, 25 years ago, our about to become great friends Brian and Ann Hall had a puppy, Meadowood Tom Popple, Edward, from us as a silver wedding anniversary present to themselves. Now, 25 years later, with no time off for good behaviour, they celebrated their golden anniversary. And we were invited.
Edward died a long while ago, of course, but
Why do people tell me "I will pray for you" and expect me to be grateful?
Every so often I meet some sort of evangelical idiot who finds it essential to try to save what he or she fondly believes to be my immortal soul. I find that often happens after I reveal that I find their attitude to homosexuality to be repugnant. And they then insult me and try to bully me with both the idea that I am going to some imaginary place called Hell (scary place with fire and stuff)
RNLI and Royal Navy demonstrate Air Sea Rescue at Dartmouth Regatta
This is rescue perfection. Don't let the placid looking river Dart fool you, the river is dangerous enough to claim two lives each year.
Dart Lifeboat worked with 711 RN Squadron flying out of their base at Culdrose to run this demonstration every day of the regatta. Each day a different crewman went up the wire for a spin in the Sea King. This time of year the Dart RNLI and Royal Navy crews
I can't read the article I commend to you without a sea of tears.
I have not yet managed to read to the end of the article in Bay Windows entitled Survivor: MIT grad student remembers "ex-gay" therapy. I can make it in chunks. So let me show you some of the chunks.
At Sam?s mother?s suggestion, he found himself in therapy, happy to face Bibles on a coffee table rather than lying to hospital staff about his injuries.
During his first one-on-one appointment, the
Campaign for a new B Ark
The planet Golgafrincham was right. Send the idiots away in a big spaceship that no-one was ever going to follow. If this means nothing to you, search for the name of the planet.
Today my good friend and co-webmaster looked with me at a page for a search engine optimisation organisation (SEO) outfit's journal. The domain name alone is barking mad:
searchengineoptimizationjournal.com
Good, eh?
Roll on the Dartmouth regatta
The ship is now dressed overall. I don't mean the pub! I mean my house! Loads of Dartmouth folk make a special regatta effort. This year we've been able to, too. There is even a house flag at the masthead - the burgee of Pwllheli Sailing Club, where I've been a member since about 1967. So a red dragon's come to Devon.
The pictures embiggen in a new thingy when clicked and are excluded from
Why do they worry about my converting them?
I just saw a thinly veiled rant by my old friend Brody Levesque against some random christofascist, and it set me wondering about conversions. Conversions happen in religionutter-world when the proposition is so unbelievably appealing, so attractive, that one cannot help but convert, right?
So, if that is true, why are they so worried that homosexuals will convert the heterosexuals of this
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