The government has decided not to go ahead with using the electronic voting system this time around. The text of the CEV’s interim report is now available.
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April 2004
Fixing the voting machines
The Irish electronic voting fiasco is well known to my loyal readers. However, I now have a solution to the government’s woes. A simple way of adding a voter-verifiable paper trail to the system that has been purchased, at a relatively low cost.
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what you need to know about starting a tech business
Over the last few weeks, Eoin O Ceallachain, Finbar Bradley and myself have been working with Declan Delaney on a business module for software engineering graduate students at NUI Maynooth.
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Is more really more?
The Great Dave suggests that the New York Times should make all its source material available, even the stuff that doesn’t make it to the newspaper.
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coping with ipodicide – product development, microsoft style
Picture the scene. You’re wearing your fashionable sweater and expensive leather jacket one evening, and you’re walking along a side-street in Seattle. All of a sudden, a dorky-looking middle-aged guy wearing docker trousers, a green jumper and metal-framed aviator glasses steps out and challenges you.
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Greenspun on web radio.
Philip Greenspun tells the story (audo version) about Ars Digita, what went wrong and other things. It’is still worth reading.
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