A few days ago I came across this news story, in which a group of French journalists are to be holed up in a farmhousesomewhere with no access to normal news media but with access to Social Media - Tw…
What a surprise - Sheffield City Council and Yorkshire Forward are planning to chip in £20 millionstowards helping kick start the stalled £600 million 'Sevenstone' retail quarter in Sheffield City Ce…
Well, I guess that as someone with technical credentials I should comment on the unveiling of Apple's new tablet machine, the iPad. The first thing I will say is that I'm not an Apple fanboi, and so …
Have you heard of ACTA? How about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? No? Well, you're probably not alone. After all, here in the UK the Government won't even put documents regarding the Agre…
As anyone who's ever heard me rant about the 'numbers game' side of networking - especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook - will testify, I'm a great believer in quality rather than …
I appreciate that I may be being overly cynical here, and will certainly feel a total idiot if the recent escalation of the UK's Terror Alert Status actually was based in one of the threats reported h…
moralityFirst of all, for anyone unaware of the news stories about the two pre-teen thugs from Edlington who tortured and abused two little boys, here's a link to the story. Now, I passed a comment o…
Sometimes the stuff that changes the world starts quietly. On September 9th, 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, was assassinated in a suicide bombing. A few months …
Today is a bad day for anyone who likes the idea of integrity and common decency. Take a look at this news story from the BBC about the ADE-651 bomb detector. This baby sells for up to $40,000 a p…
I'll admit it. Deep within me is a snob. As far as I'm concerned, the online world started heading down hill when you no longer had to know how to install a full TCP/IP stack to use the Internet. M…