On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Matt Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, good point - I'll strike it off later. Can't see what good it does to > show the full date of birth.
You could cross-compare star sign and corporate fortunes, once and for all settling the question of whether astrology is a good basis for planning ;) Seriously - great work with this! Very cool. Are there any unique ID fields for people that could be cross-compared elsewhere? eg. if name AND d.o.b. matched a wikipedia/dbpedia entry, perhaps publish might-be-same-as links? (ie. use the d.o.b. internally for matching purposes). Don't suppose you get email addresses out of the system? I guess not since I don't get much companies-house related electronic spam; I do however periodically get paper spam mailed to me 'cos I'm in their db. The last one was even personalised and sent in a fake handwriting font. See http://brianclegg.blogspot.com/2009/12/clever-advertising-or-fraud-you-decide.html and my copy of it, http://www.flickr.com/photos/danbri/4534399474/ ... if online contact details become available, maybe they'll try saving on postage stamps. Personalised paper spam is somehow scarier though... cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
