There was an interesting little piece in the Guardian few days ago suggesting that local authorities could save £51 million by moving some council employees to Open Office* and ODF**, and away from Microsoft Office and their document format, with the total savings rocketing to £200 million if every council employee in the country moved

So says the New York Times in its detailed report on what the News of the World got up to with phone hacking during Andy Coulson’s time as editor: A dozen former reporters said in interviews that hacking was pervasive at News of the World. “Everyone knew,” one longtime reporter said. “The office cat knew.”

I have never been more excited to attend an event like I am for attending the United States Naval Institute History conference this year. While the contractors have been working on my home office I had a chance to read RADM Joseph F. Callo, USNR (Ret.) book John Paul Jones - which is remarkably well written and applicable for the US Navy today. Actually, I'll be talking about many of the folk...

Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the seventh incumbent voted out of office this year as she concedes to Joe Miller, a lawyer backed by Sarah Palin and the conservative Tea Party movement

A former official in the House of Commons fees office faces jail for siphoning off almost £6,000 in bogus MPs' expenses claims to clear his own debts.

The Labour blogs have been buzzing lately after a poll emerged showing the Coalition’s approval ratings dipping in to the negative for the first time since they took office and amid increasing criticism of the cuts programme. Personally I don’t think we should pay much heed to this poll because overall I believe the majority

Alex Salmond has said he plans to make Scottish independence the keystone of his re-election campaign after admitting there is no more money left for the giveaways that marked his first term in office.

Ahead of the upcoming congressional elections, the US president vows to finish restoring the Gulf Coast area hit by the hurricane five years ago and highlights his administration's action since taking office

Not as thick as he looked, Dubya. The Sunday Telegraph reports that the Bush administration urged Tony Blair to remain in office because it had ‘big concerns’ about working with the monomaniac Gordon Brown.  Here are the details: ‘Senior officials in the US administration sounded the alert after a meeting between Mr Brown and Condoleezza Rice, Mr Bush’s secretary of st...

Also on the NK beat, here’s a report (pdf) on the activities of Office 39, which is about the closest thing the world actually has to SPECTRE. I’m not sure about some of the stuff in there. There’s a real...