Tim dares to speak out. Is there an alternative?

XML enters the dusty world of finance. I know there's XBRL but that's complicated.

ZapThink :: Intelligence, Research, Analysis, and Insight on XML, Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

Stuff about browser based applications and forms and the future.
http://www.whatwg.org/
http://www.adambosworth.net/
http://bitworking.org/news/3270_Redux
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/11/24OPstrategic_1.html

Another thought on Postcodes and Addresses. The reason the phone book doesn't contain postcodes (as you would think it would be in the best interests of the Post Office) is because BT and the Post Office couldn't agree a price. Even more reason to take away ownership from them.

Martin contact me and I'll tell you about Delivery Point Codes. They uniquely identify a property(-ish). Wise stuff in the rest of the article though.

Back to the earth with a bump. We've purchased Sage MMS. The previous version (Line 100) was a screen-scraped DOS product. This latest version is .NET based, but no relational database at the back-end yet - just shared files on a network drive.

Still NASA doesn't exactly use leading edge technology.