Blogs and Blogging | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:02:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Goodbye Facebook, it’s been nice… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/goodbye-facebook-its-been-nice/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:02:31 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8492 Have you heard of ‘Enshittification’? It’s a concept created by Cory Doctorow, and it’s summed up on Google as: …the three-stage decline of online platforms: first attracting users with good service, then prioritizing business customers by degrading user experience, and finally extracting maximum value from everyone for shareholder profit, leading to unusable, value-sapped services like […]

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]]> Progress so far…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/progress-so-far/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:49:05 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7860 A few weeks ago I decided to try and get back in to regularly writing. This came after a conversation with my wife in which we recollected that in the 1980s I was able to earn about 50% of my income through writing – mainly technical journalism and technical books. There was one period where […]

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]]> The Ring of Gyges and the cat’s backside https://joepritchard.me.uk/2015/10/the-ring-of-gyges/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1573 The Ring of Gyges is a magic ring discussed by the philosopher Plato in his Republic. It granted the wearer the gift of invisibility, and was used by plato to explore what would happen if an intelligent,  moral and upstanding man were to be given this gift.  After all, he’d be able to go anywhere, […]

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]]> The Competent Person…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/04/the-competent-person/ Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:59:16 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1375 The ‘Competent Man’ (or woman) is a character in literature who has a vast range of skills and abilities that make them appear to be capable of doing anything.  Classic male examples are Jeeves or Angus MacGyver.  Now, I’m pretty sure that I’m not one of these mythical men, but I was reminded of this creature […]

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]]> Life is what happens…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2011/06/life-is-what-happens-2/ Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:55:16 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1311 …when you’re making other plans. That’s the way things work according, I believe, to John Lennon.  I have to say that that’s how it felt a week or so back when I realised I hadn’t blogged for about 5 months. Looking back over the period between Christmas 2010 and now, I’m not surprised that I […]

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]]> The Death of Google Wave https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/the-death-of-google-wave/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:06:45 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1242 Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of ‘development has been stopped’. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunity to change their minds if the pressure gets too much. The demise of Wave doesn’t actually surprise me; I’m surprised […]

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]]> Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/configuring-mowes-on-a-usb-stick/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:59:23 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1166 There’s an old saying that you can neither be too thin  or have too much money.  I’d like to add to that list – you can’t have too many web servers available on your PC.   For the non-geeks amongst you, a web server is a program that runs on a computer to ‘serve up’ web pages.  […]

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]]> Normal Service will hopefully be resumed…soon! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/normal-service-will-hopefully-be-resumed-soon/ Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:47:37 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1095 Regular readers will have noticed that the last few weeks on Joe’s Jottings have been a bit patchy in terms of the frequency of posts.  It’s been a perfect example of ‘life happening when you’re making other plans’ and I hope soon to be getting back to the ‘one post a day’ regime that I […]

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]]> Arrogance 2.0 https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/arrogance-2-0/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:27:07 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1026 Maybe I’m just old, or maybe I just don’t get some aspects of modern business – or are some people online purporting to be business experts just arrogant and opinionated folks with insufficient experience and a habit of stating the bleedin’ obvious as if they’d just discovered a Unified Field Theory? And what triggered this off?  As frequently […]

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]]> Social Search…waste of time? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/social-search-waste-of-time/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:23:06 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=990 I’m a big user of search engines.  Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they’re still the best out there.  I hope that Bing – despite the daft name – will one day come to challenge Google, but until then, I just Google.  It’s been interesting […]

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