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Twitter Phishing…YOUR responsibility!
The recent spate of Twitter ‘phishing’ attacks have been interesting for me in a number of ways. First of all, my wife received one of the phishing DMs from a contact of hers whose account had been compromised. Fortunately, she knew enough not to enter any details in to the page she was directed to,
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The wee small hours….
Even when I have something worth worrying about, I have to say that it takes a lot of worry to stop me sleeping; having said that, I doubt there’s a night goes by without me waking up at some point. 2 years ago, however, I did manage to sleep through an earthquake, but that’s another
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The To Do List!
With thanks to Rachel G. who gave me the idea of writing this up! Over the years I must have tried any number of Time Management techniques – I have to say that whilst I’m much better these days at fitting what I need to do in to the time available, but it’s taken a
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They STILL shoot horses, don’t they?
One of the things that has surprised me over the last few months has been the resurgence of dance in various forms as a staple of the TV entertainment schedules. Not that I’ve actually bothered to watch any of it; having two left feet and an aversion for sequins and modern dance has meant that vast
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The Last Temptation of Mankind?
One of my professional interests is in Artificial Intelligence – AI. I think I’ve had an interest in the simulation of human personality by software for as long as I’ve been interested in programming, and have also heard most of the jokes around the subject – particularly those to do with ‘making friends’. 🙂 In fiction, most artificial intelligences that
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Web 2.0 – User Generated Content or garbage?
Some months ago, an Internet Form that I belonged to was taken offline after an internal dispute….and it never came back. The upshot of it was that the content of the forum was no longer available – gone for good. Of course, it wasn’t all pearls of ever-lasting wisdom, but there was some interesting stuff
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The PAYG Laptop?
You write one article about Appliance Computing and the following morning this BBC story pops up – Laptop Launched to aid computer novices’. The ‘Alex’, a Linux based laptop, is aimed at people who’re occasional computer users and comes with an Office suite, mail, browser, broadband connection and a monthly fee. In other words, a
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The Appliance Computer?
Well, the fuss over the launch of the iPad has died down somewhat – it wasn’t the Second Coming or the Rapture, the world didn’t suddenly turn Rainbow coloured (not for me. anyway) and the Apple Fans have gone quiet. So, perhaps it’s time to take a few minutes to think about what the iPad might
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PCC, Stephen Gately and liberal backlash
The Press Complaints Commissionshas decided not to uphold complaints about an article by Jan Moir about the circumstances surrounding Stephen Gately’s death. I’m not going to rehash the details of the case – a quick Google will allow you to find the original article, but my main interest is in some of the comments that
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UK Government Data Release – much ado about nothing?
Back in January the UK Government opened a web site up that was described as “a one-stop shop for developers hoping to find inventive new ways of using government data”. The site, http://data.gov.uk/, aims to pull together government generated data sets in a form that application developers can use to create ‘mashups’ of data from