Posts by NJS

Re: Why not have cloud.gov.uk ?

LMAO ... yes we could do that.

What would realistically happen is the gov would run a procurement exercise and Microsoft or AWS would get the job.

Ohhhh, you meant build a cloud...

Re: there were the foxes, and horses, and camels, and...

Giant hogweed is a plague along many riverbanks - nasty stuff that burns the skin if touched and leaves it sensitive for a long time afterwards (lot longer than the burns take to heal).

Re: Post Office

I was going to say something similar - given some of the letters I see from relatives if the spooks could provide a transcript after they've finished with the OCR'ing I'd be grateful because then we might both know what's being communicated.

Re: We were doing that at the lab at uni

So were we but with a null modem cable - enter lab, find quiet corner right up the back, disconnect two PCs from network, gibb away. Good times (slightly misty eyed for some reason) ;)

...already an NHS unique number

Em, yes and no - what you may find is you (depending on where you've lived in the UK during your lifetime) have many unique NHS Numbers, all of which are hopefully/loosely tied together with whatever one is supposedly current.

NHS Number as primary key, you're having a laugh.