- SOA and the Enterprise
- Solution Patterns
- Security
- SOA and your business: Dashboards, Activity Monitoring and Process Management
- Governance
- SOA and the Cloud
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Monday, 15 February 2010
SOA workshop, New York, February 25th
After successful runs in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Santa Clara, California, the WSO2 SOA Workshop is coming to New York City on Thursday 25th February 2010.
I will be presenting alongside my colleague, Asanka Abeysinghe, who is our Lead Solutions Architect. We will be covering the following topics during the day:
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Friday, 5 February 2010
British MPs hint at even worse behaviour
I don't normally blog about politics, but every once in a while they wind me up so much I can't help it!
4 British Politicians have been charged under the Theft Act for fiddling their expenses. They are saying that they are going to claim "parliamentary privelige" to avoid prosecution. Basically, under the 1689 Bill of Rights, MPs cannot be taken to court for things that happen within parliament. This is designed to protect them from libel and encourage free speech in Parliament. They are going to argue that this applies to their expense reports as well.
Whether or not they win that argument - this is really sinking to a new low. To pad your expenses is one thing. To claim that you are above the ordinary law - that you can avoid prosecution for fiddling your expenses just because you were a politician - that is the lowest of the low. If these MPs and Lords are truly innocent, let them prove it without claiming parliamentary privelige.
To do anything else will be to sink to a new low - cowering under one of the most sacred of our parliamentary rules to hide their thievery.
4 British Politicians have been charged under the Theft Act for fiddling their expenses. They are saying that they are going to claim "parliamentary privelige" to avoid prosecution. Basically, under the 1689 Bill of Rights, MPs cannot be taken to court for things that happen within parliament. This is designed to protect them from libel and encourage free speech in Parliament. They are going to argue that this applies to their expense reports as well.
Whether or not they win that argument - this is really sinking to a new low. To pad your expenses is one thing. To claim that you are above the ordinary law - that you can avoid prosecution for fiddling your expenses just because you were a politician - that is the lowest of the low. If these MPs and Lords are truly innocent, let them prove it without claiming parliamentary privelige.
To do anything else will be to sink to a new low - cowering under one of the most sacred of our parliamentary rules to hide their thievery.
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