Andy Loughran

The iPlayer is a concept which should "just work." The BBC are a massive corporation in the UK, and once led the way in both content and technological developments in television entertainment. There were the BBC cameras, Dr Who, and all sorts of wonderful programmes coming out of Television Centre. Since then bits and pieces have ...

My background is not typical of a Systems Administrator. I started my life in IT as a marketing intern, the some time doing basic server administration and Desktop support; to now find myself working fully on Linux Servers. It's a long way from the Psychology and Business degree that I graduated with back in June '07.

A few years back, in 2004, Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno launched a Musicians' Union called Mudda to stand up for the rights of the musicians who were having their music stolen in the 'post-Napser' age of p2p downloads.  One of the taglines of Peter Gabriel's mission was the title of a confidential debate, How to ...

I'm looking to improve the way in which IT is used by the charity we're partnered with, and by the charity I work for directly.  Up til now there hasn't been much thought put into the organisation other than "We must backup" - which is a good enough place to start.. but not a means of ...

I thought I best write a short post on the announcement given on Wednesday, and pushed by Tom Watson MP - that the government are now going to be proactively supporting Open Source to lower costs in government.