Goodbye Facebook, it's been nice...
My Facebook header... 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 u…
Tagged: blogs-and-blogging
Progress so far....
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 t…
The Ring of Gyges and the cat's backside
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 intellige…
The Competent Person....
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 Jeevesor Angu…
Life is what happens....
...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 …
The Death of Google Wave
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 opportunit…
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…
Normal Service will hopefully be resumed...soon!
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 makin…
Arrogance 2.0
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 experi…
Social Search...waste of time?
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 da…