Interesting Facts

Astrid Byro is a Technical project manager, in 2013 she planned to work remotely from 5,000 metres above sea level in the Himalayas. (The idea was to prove that working remotely was possible. She was planning to use a Kindle Fire tablet to access an online project tracking system, Jira.  What makes this really interesting, apart from the fact that it is interesting in its own right, is there doesn't seem to be any information on how this attempt went.  Her blog http://www.abc-ebc.blogspot.co.uk/ simply stops. Does anyone know anything?)

According to a report from parliament's public spending watchdog, the failed NHS (National Health Service) patient record system has so far cost the British taxpayer nearly £10bn (I say "so far" because the final bill, for what would have been the world's largest civilian computer system, is likely to be several hundreds of millions of pounds higher, it has been described as "the biggest IT failure ever seen".   Nice use of the superlative.  I wonder if the British taxpayer can sue?)