Day: 27 April 2018

The Guardian seems to have a “secret” memo showing that if Amber Rudd is in control of her department she would have known about the deportation targets, which currently she claims not to be aware.

In all manner of ways, the current government have shown themselves as untrustworthy.

Their actions after Grenfell show their allegiance is more to landlords than tenants. Windrush shows its more to UKIPpers than people who have added to society. And then we get on to Brexit and the NHS – both situations not helped at all by the work over the last few years by the Tories.

I think we need a new way of governing as the impoverished are worse off, the ill are worse off, and the immigrants (invited to this country) are worse off. The only ones better off are those who are well off to start.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/amber-rudd-was-told-about-migrant-removal-targets-leak-reveals

I’m getting involved with something at work which means I’ve been getting my hands dirty with Moodle – https://moodle.org/.

Nothing too heavy yet, but everything I’ve seen so far is simple, straightforward and intuitive.

Which for any CMS, regardless of its focus, is a tremendous achievement.

I was chatting only yesterday saying that in this day and age, any UI (User Interface) that is not simple and intuitive (and with no built in training guidance) is insulting the user and of course will long term lead to a lack of engagement across all possible users.

So Moodle gets a thumbs up, as does WordPress. Joomla and other CMS less so, though I wish I had been able to play with Drupal, but that may yet happen.

So many inventions owe inspiration to shows, a lot of Star Trek has generated work such as tricorders.

But now a different franchise has made its impact – Transformers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-43919460/real-life-transformer-the-japanese-robot-that-becomes-a-car