Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple's famous TV advert for the groundbreaking 'Macintosh' computer back in 1984. The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free comp…
Yesterday I found out that Yahoo had pulled the plug on the Delicious application, amongst a few other APIs and services. There will no doubt now be a spate of articles about how to move your content…
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…
Well, it's a while since I wrote a blog post so why not kick off with a slight bit of professional heresy. I write software for a living; have done for over 30 years, starting with SCMP microprocesso…
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…
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…
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…
I came across this ratherinteresting article from the personal blog of a Pastor in the US recently in which he suggests that Tweeting in Church might be a good idea. Now, I have to admit that I was s…
Some weeks ago, a story broke about Google recording data about WiFi networks when they were wandering around taking family snapshots with their now infamous fleet of 'Streetview' cars. At the time, …
There's a scene in Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' in which a character asks 'What have the Romans ever done for us?' This is then followed by a host of other characters giving many useful things …