International Friendly: France 1 – 1 Tunisia
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Final score: France 1 – 1 TunisiaGoal scorers: Issam Jimaa [TUN] 6', William Galas [FRA] 62'.
Archive for May, 2010
New Zealand stuns Serbia in World Cup warm-up
Monday, May 31st, 2010
New Zealand stunned world number 15 and fellow FIFA World Cup finalist Serbia with a deserved 1-0 victory in Klagenfurt, Austria today. …
Overseas players cleared to feature
Friday, May 28th, 2010
(Pictured right: from left Rewa team manager Lawrence Nath, Abraham Iniga and George Lui) | Fiji FA CEO Mr. Bob Kumar revealed that three more players have been granted their International Transfer Certificates. Solomon Islanders Abraham Iniga (Marist …
Koloale Oust Marist in Thriller
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Solomon Times Online – Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:32 AM BY JOSEPH BOSO, SIFF MEDIABenjamin Totori and Henry Fa’arodo Jnr celebrate Totori’s goal.(Source: Photo Supplied)Koloale pulled off a brave come back in the second half of their quarter final match…
France gets behind Tahiti 2013
Friday, May 28th, 2010
OFC MediaThe French Government has added its support to Tahiti’s hosting of the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.From left, Franck Castillo, OFC President Reynald Temarii, RamaYade, Christian Karembeu and Noelline Parker | OFC President Reynald Temarii…
JOURNEE DE L’EUROPE – 9 mai 2010 – soixantième anniversaire de la déclaration Schuman.)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Le 9 mai 2010, la France et l’Europe célébrent le 6o ème anniversaire de la déclaration Schuman, acte fondateur de la construction européenne.)
Convention de coopération entre le vanuatu et la nouvelle-caledonie programme 2010-2011 – Appel à projets)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre de la nouvelle Convention de coopération régionale entre le Vanuatu et la Nouvelle-Calédonie, signée le 16 février dernier à Nouméa, un appel à projets est lancé simultanément en Nouvelle-Calédonie et au Vanuatu. Les secteurs prioritaires de cette coopération, les catégories de bénéficiaires, ainsi que le seuil minimal des projets sont définis dans ce document. La date de clôture de cet appel à projets a été fixée au vendredi 2 juillet. Les porteurs de projets sont donc invités à adresser dès que (…))
Blues win, Singh stokes Suva’s fire of optimism
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Fijilive.com27/06/102010 Vodafone Fiji FACT hosts, Lautoka had to fight tooth and nail to beat a spirited Suva outfit 1-0 but Suva coach Dennis Singh says his team will fight till the end with two games at the tournament remaining."It is just d…
Disaster? What Disaster?
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Neil McAllister seems to think we’re on the brink of an abyss. Digital Armageddon is just around the corner, because business’ increasing reliance on pure information makes them liable to meltdown should they sufficiently mismanage it.
But what I’d like to know -and what McAllister conveniently forgets to mention- is: What, exactly, constitutes a ‘True Data Disaster?’
Are we talking about a leak that effectively kills a company’s credibility dead? I don’t think so, because if incompetence or data mismanagement had any kind of real-world relationship with a company’s success, Yahoo!, Amazon, TJX and Heartland Payment Systems and dozens of others would at very least have suffered losses in stock value following their colossally poor management practices.
Are we talking criminal abuse of private information? If that were the case, then Microsoft, Yahoo! and all the nation’s telcos (save Qwest) should be facing imminent demise because of their complicity in the unconstitutional breach of their customers’ privacy in the US Government’s domestic spying programme.
Are we talking straight-up data loss? If so, then Microsoft (hmm, that name keeps coming up) should have taken a dive when they managed quite literally to lose all of Danger Networks’ data.
Or are we talking non-performance and generalised uselessness on a scale that beggars comprehension? If that were the case, then why do large consultancies still manage to win multi-million dollar contracts that suck up centuries of developer time and never actually deliver a thing? Think of the FBI’s famous foray into modernisation, the now-legendary death of the UK’s online medical database and any of a hundred other projects that ended up entirely written off (to the tune of 100s of millions each) without so much as a downward tick in the value of the contracting companies involved.
It seems that in the esoteric world of noughts and ones, belief matters far more than empirical truth, making a true Data Disaster literally inconceivable.
There can’t be a Data Disaster today, because we can’t imagine what one would look like. Likewise, there won’t be a Data Disaster until we become capable of realising that they’re all around us, happening every day.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Wall Chart Offers Rugby Fans Humorous Guide To Soccer World Cup
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
A frustrated soccer fan has created an irreverent wall chart to helprugby-mad Kiwis enjoy the 2010 football world cup.Fanatical All Whites supporter, known as “Bobagio”, says the posterwas created after he couldn’t find a decent World Cup wall chart th…
