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.
The World is visiting Dartmouth
This morning we got up at ten to seven to watch The World go by. Or, to watch The World come into harbour here in Dartmouth. Visiting ships always seem to come in early!
She left Southampton at midnight and was coming quietly in, astern at just past 7am today. She was scheduled to be in somewhat later!
I've put more details on our ship spotting web site.
What astounded us as she came into
The National Trust - an ironic organisation
I'm so used to finding that a National Trust property is closed on the day I want to visit it, that I tried their web site to check opening times:
Ah, the irony!
It's shut.
HMS Severn dropped into Dartmouth yesterday
There I was, digging out the first part of the front flowerbed when HMS Severn trickled past on her way to turn round just upstream of the Brittania Royal Naval College. So I took this photo of her before she slipped out of view:
The first thing to do was to put the picture and details of the visit onto Ship Spotting World. The second thing to do was more digging.
Gardening and Planning Permission
We're in the final furlong. Getting the front garden right isn't a huge job, but it's a hard job. And She Who Must Be Obeyed can't do this last part because she and heights do not get on.
The front garden is on four descending levels: The front door level, a shared walkway with our neighbours and on which we have a selection of pots; the first terrace, where the alpine trench is, a parasol now,
Fashionable hatred
I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling quietly sorry for Jon Venables. To put that into context, nothing can ever replace Jamie Bulger, and Venables and Thompson were dreadfully, indescribably wrong to abduct and kill the trusting little boy. And no, I see no reason, except for their own peace of mind, for the toddler's parents to even consider forgiving him. But I do feel quietly sorry for him.
I'm
Bing? Oh how I hate you!
When you create a website, if you want it indexed fast and with low load on your server, you create an XML sitemap and submit it to the major search engines. Google started this (0.9 probability) and Yahoo followed. And now we have Bing.
Oh good.
Google is easy. You validate the site with a meta tag, tell Big G where the sitemap is to be found, and then wait a while. It's not 100% intuitive,
Stonewall says 'Gay people are stereotypes, jokes or almost invisible on yout...
Instinctively everyone knows that. Historically it's always been so. But it's time that history was consigned to... well... history. There was a time when we needed jokes about poofs, but, when portrayals happen that are pejorative, especially when we're meant to be enlightened, it's time to make sure it stops.
Stonewall's survey, Unseen on Screen, is a good datum point. The methodolgy appears
Neocube, Buckyballs, Zen Magnets, Tricks and tips
Just sometimes there's something you find that's so impressive and so simple that you need to share it with people. Bernd, with whom I put together all sorts of online projects, came up with an inspirational idea. He bought a set of Neocube magnetic balls (do be careful where your mind's going!) and said:
This is fun. We should start a site for people to give other people hints, tips, tricks,
Religion, homosexuality, suicide, persecution, hate...
Why is it that people who shout the loudest about their worship of their deity are so often the most vitriolic towards others? I don't mean all. I have a very good friend who is a rabbi in Masorti Judaism, who is a quiet and scholarly man and who, to my knowledge, condemns no-one. He is a true teacher. He guides. I am sure he is already embarrassed to be reading this, but no matter.
In the words
Temporary absence of this blog now resolved
I think Google had a meltdown overnight. I woke this morning to multiple reports that the blog had been taken down. One of them was in a comment in the post below - how did he do that, I wonder? At the same time I was unable to log in to Gmail from my email client.
So I went to the blog address to find it had, allegedly, been taken down. Maybe having an article about gay equality, a massacre,
When we express the hope for gay equality, this is not what we mean
Seventeen men and women were killed and 18 injured at a party in Mexico that was organized by a gay group. So says the article at 365gay.com in what is, frankly, pretty poor reporting. So we're obviously thinking hate crime, right?
Not so says the LA Times. Well, not really. It quotes Mileno:
Organizers of the party were a gay group, but the invitation specifically said the event was open to
What a contrast! Nahlin 1, Skat 0
We have two super-yachts in Dartmouth today. One is Skat, the other is Nahlin. You deserve a couple of pictures:
That is Skat. These are Skat's details. I just find myself wondering about the rationale for painting it battleship grey. Is the owner that afraid of pirates that he wants to play battleships? Or is it like a Porsche, telling us something about his gentleman's area?
Then there is
Helping our son (not to be gay)
I was sent this article today as a scan. It's called 'Helping our Son' and it's all about making the poor 20 year old man who trusted the love of his parents enough to come out to them stop being gay. I've linked the picture to the actual article in The Jerusalem Post.
Heck, at 20 he's a man, but he's still a kid even if he is serving out his army service. And his parents have let hom down badly
How dumb can dumbing down get?
Tonight we are meeting a friend at Totnes. She arrives on the 18:56. So I checked the arrivals board for delays.
For the stupid people, there is a key below the train times:
Key
Delayed: This service is delayed
No report: There is no report on the progress of this service yet
Cancelled: The service has been cancelled
On time: This service is on time
Start here: The service has not yet started
To Celebrate the T?
We all understand what we are. Happy heterosexuals have no particular need to identify as such. Bisexuals sometimes get marginalised by folk, both heterosexual and homosexual, who fail to understand that one can be attracted to and aligned with either sex, and bisexuals are pressured, often,into apparent heterosexuality. Homosexuals have a string need to self identify, perhaps caused by years of
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