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Who would have thunk it?

It seems our paranoia about government watching our every move online is going to be greatly enhanced by our move to the cloud.

That’s why my feet are staying firmly on the ground and I suggest you do to until we have a way around these [...]

Solar Storm – Reloaded

After my last post on Solar Storms and my discussions with a few people I decided to write a follow on piece as to what it means to the ordinary person in their home.

Remember that the Solar Storm we are looking at is one of nature’s regular cycles.   It will be put down [...]

A robot sorting socks

One of the problems I have every wash is that I end up with one sock over.  Every time.   I used to make the excuse that the sock matched one from before or that the matching sock was waiting to be washed.    However, after a while of leaving the sock by the washing line [...]

Outsourcing isn’t all about money

At the start of the outsourcing boom I remember having discussions with the board about outsourcing our IT and, basically, making myself redundant. All the senior managers saw is a reduced spend for IT on the books and in exactly the same way IT brought about cost savings in finance, warehousing, etc. they seen [...]

Mother Nature sneezes

Despite all the weapons we develop and the way we go about our business nothing comes close to Mother Nature in sheer force. No matter what hits, a hurricane, tsunami, volcano it almost always devastates more than any human force can do. Even our doomsday devices, nuclear bombs, biological weapons and their like, are [...]

Data storage

I’ve mentioned before that at the rate our disks are growing we will soon have all the data we will ever need stored on our own hard drives. Although there are Petabytes of information flowing around every day most of them are just people like me downloading the same stuff for storage on our [...]

Dry water is a new storage medium

When I was younger I was told a story where a woman had wrecked a kettle by switching it on without any water in. In those days kettle didn’t have all the safety features we have now and the kettle simply burned out. When questioned why it had been switched on without any water [...]

CCTV benefits society

Despite the fact that CCTV footage never seems to record Plod beating up citizens or used in the prosecution of any criminals they seem to spread like a unwanted rash over our cities and towns.

Although now it appears that CCTV cameras can have a use after all. Read the full story here and [...]

Shock discovery that smart people don’t know everything

Microsoft is a software firm. Over the last thirty years it has made hundreds of billions of dollars writing software. It has revolutionised the world we live in and changed everyone’s lives for the better with its software. I hires some of the smartest and talented people on the planet.

So quite why everyone [...]

Good work if you can get it

This must be the life. Get a course that pays you to record some data on your hobby and keep yourself busy having fun. If only there was a real life job that paid well for the same task. Good luck Guys. I had to do boring set [...]