Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
Sigh...perhaps why we need fewer quangos - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10590460.stm # FIFA demonstrate their fuck-wittedness yet again. Who the Hell do they think they are? http://news.bbc.co…
Why I WON'T be re-joining the Labour Party
In the period since the General Election here in the UK I've seen a fair number of blog posts and Facebook notes entitled 'Why I'm rejoining the Labour Party' - typically by folks who were members of…
I was right to blame it on sunspots!
Early on in my consulting career - late 1980s, early 1990s - I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation. I worked on a number of projects - this was in the days when IT consultants could st…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04
Happy July 4th to all my US friends - have a great day! #fb # Delighted to see #ger take apart #arg .... at least #eng managed one goal! # Debugging code and contemplating whether Russia needs any spi…
The Movie Star and the Secret Weapon…..
This blog post was originally an article I had published in an amateur radio magazine some years ago...enjoy! Another example of how it's often the 'amateurs' who deliver the goods. How about this fo…
Chasing Cars
'Chasing Cars' is the name of a song by the band 'Snow Patrol'. I quite like it - I'm a sucker for sad songs and this is a fine example of the genre. However, it has a little bit of 'back story'. A…
The world's messy - get used to it
One of the great things about Twitter is that it brings articles to my attention that I wouldn't otherwise have read. This blog post originated in one of those articles. It's here- in it, the writer n…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
Gradually shaking off the after effects of that more disturbing dream from last night... # Just received worse phishing spam ever. Claimed to be from BoS, referenced RBS web site, signed off as from L…
I now debug washing machines....
Ask most people in IT what the most irritating piece of kit in most PC installations is, and they'll usually say 'printers' or 'scanners' - basically anything mechanical. I think the item in the hous…
Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick
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 yo…