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Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
2024 year note
2024-08: August month note
2024-07: July month note
2024-05 / 2024-06: Catch-up note - May & June 2024
Public Digital Newsletter: CrowdStrike special
Public Digital: CrowdStrike - a global wake-up call
2024-04: April month note
2024-03: March month note
2024-02: February month note
2024-01: January month note
Horizon IT scandal: repeating patterns
2023 year note
About me
Contact
My old blog
Privacy and cookies
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DigitalBC: Legacy modernisation - The Why
2020 year note
O'Reilly: Solving problems with principles
Public Digital: Building new services around older IT
Talking to Parliament about digital government
The state of blogging in digital government
2017 year note
Benefits of controls on government technology spending
Deliver little, deliver often, avoid the big bang
Create the space to let teams deliver
GDS: Completing our work to secure digital services
GDS: Incident report – GOV.UK DNS outage
What I mean when I say "digital transformation"
Plenty done
GDS: Updating our security guidelines for digital services
Plenty more to do
Spending time with users
A busy start to 2015
Keeping motivated
DVLA: Iterating the Vehicle Tax and SORN betas
DVLA: Making vehicle information clearer
DVLA: Next phase of the tax disc beta
Week notes #49
Week notes #45
Week notes #43
Simpler, clearer and faster car tax online
Week notes #41
Week notes #25-27
365 days later
Week notes #22-24
Week notes #16-21
Week notes #14-15
Week notes #12
Week notes #11
Week notes #10
Talk: Digital by Default at Civil Service Live 2013
Week notes #9
Week notes #8
Week notes #7
Week notes #6
Week notes #3-5
Week notes #2
Week notes #1
The internet is fragile
Surviving long distance commuting
GDS: Browser usage on GOV.UK
Exploring local government services online
Hello GOV.UK
Working towards launch of GOV.UK
Brushing off the cobwebs
GDS: It's not about cookies, it's about privacy
GDS: Local Services and GOV.UK
GDS: Cookies on the GOV.UK Beta
Helping to build a single domain for government
An update on the EU cookie law
Opening up rail performance data
Using website cookies in the EU
The last half of 2010
Attack on @baskers and the public sector
Costs of government websites
Helping you to Stay Private
The new government on the web
A brief moment of silence
CF Labs one year on
A quick note on MP expenses
Hacks and Hackers working together
Communications in a crisis
Open government and open data
Opening up community information
Setting the postcode free
A look at the new Birmingham City Council website
Why Government needed a Twitter strategy
WhatTheyClaimed.com - a lesson in crowdsourcing
Time for a change
Talking about website accessibility
CllrTweeps - the directory of UK councillors on twitter
School closure information
Cinema-style content ratings for websites
A look at government branding