As you have all noticed, I’m a tad busy at the moment, and blogging has been the obvious thing missing out. The other thing missing out is new technology:

However, in finding out that I have to ignore another thing, I did follow the link to the NYT in Joe’s post, to find a quote from Tony Hey that is SO RIGHT ON:

Tony Hey, a veteran British computer scientist now at Microsoft, said ... "In the U.K I saw many generations of graduates students really sacrificed to doing the low-level IT."

Except it wasn’t, and isn’t, just the UK!

So timely. I gave a talk today about the pressure of big data, from models and earth observation … and having to take it all seriously from a national infrastructure point of view … I’ll eventually stick the talk up on my publications page (it’s too big to upload from home), but the slides alone won’t tell the story …

Actually there is a lot of other timely stuff going on. I’d like to be talking about the live blogging from AGU … but I have time to skim the content, but not take it and comment here …