Dominic White

Entries from November 2008

 

27 Dinner Tonight

Tonight's 27 dinner was great. I haven't been in a while, but there was a good crowd and I had some really interesting conversation. My presentation went well it seems. I've attached a copy here if anyone is interested.

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Monday, November 24. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2008-11-27 01:51
 

Why I think the Quality Vacation Club is a Dubious Organisation

Donn is being bullied by QVC for their Carlswald based marketing. He is being sued for defamation. Now I'm no lawyer, but I'm sure truth is a defence to defamation, as is it being in the public interest. If someone asked me whether to buy services from QVC, I would strongly recommend against it for the below reasons based on my experiences (and reiterated by a wealth of negative complaints on hellopeter, even with them diluted through their user of different company names, and several blogs).

P.S. The exact link between QVC and the marketing front is unclear, but based on their (now removed) documentation sent to Donn, and the information from commentators below, there definitely seems to be one. Given the years of bad press, QVC certainly can't claim they didn't know/endorse this. Either way, make up your own mind, don't take my stuff as gospel.


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Thursday, November 20. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Politics
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Last modified on 2010-10-25 13:46
 

Quality Vacation Club Bullies Blogger

Donn Edwards is being sued by QVC, the group who appear to be behind the less-than-honest "You've won a car" scheme I previously blogged about. Read his story, and press statement, and send in an affidavit, legal support or donations if you can.

Tuesday, November 18. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Politics
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SOA is a Concept, not a Goal

I like the idea of a Service Oriented Architecture; all of your applications reorganised as re-usable and generically consumable services ushering in a new capability to mash-up services across your organisation, aligned to business processes rather than application architectures. I just don't think it will happen.


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Tuesday, November 18. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2008-11-20 06:07
 

iCommons is Dead, Long live The African Commons Project (TACP)

iCommons as you know it is dead changed, and is being replaced with The African Commons Project. The whole team from iCommons has moved over to TACP, and unlike Theseus' Ship the name didn't move with it. The new website (if you can't follow hyperlinks) is http://africancommons.org/ and is already starting to fill up with interesting content.

Tuesday, November 18. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2008-11-18 22:16
 

SA Telecoms Edge Toward a Free Market

I don't think the free market has all the solutions, but in the case of SA's current telecoms landscape, I think it would provide some clear advantages. Our ridiculously inept communications minister's appeal against the original Altech judgement was rejected on all counts with costs. Nice work Altech, and thank goodness for an independant judiciary.

Saturday, November 1. 2008
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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