Archive for January, 2008
Just in case someone wants to care: what counts (literally) in the Jérôme Kerviel situation and subsequent debacle at the Société Générale are the middle and back-office operations. Not really an heroic story of front-office formulaic imagination, though. Rather a tedious plot of late-night inscription and description of trades. The main socio-technical character here is [...]
The Guardian mentioned recently the effective existence of an FBI program called “Server in the Sky” that seeks to foster police exchange of biometric data (“FBI Wants Instant Access to British Identity Data”, The Guardian, January 15 2008). Some readers may have thought “oh, this sounds familiar, probably connected to this other Total Information Awareness [...]
Yamaha is going to purchase all shares of Bösendorfer. Of course, this does not mean that the legendary piano is going to disappear or anything. There are all sorts of commitments. For instance, it is Yamaha’s intention to continue to manufacture at the Bösendorfer facilities in Austria. And there are more commitments.
There is for [...]
Tonight tg STAN gave at the Théâtre de la Bastille an astonishingly great piece about Europe — well, again about some very funny bits gathered through Thomas Bernhard.
The Test Society blog officially supports total political monster Barack Obama. Happy new era.
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