Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people having a midlife crisis has me reaching for the Glock — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I can now omit vowels and apostrophes with impunity.
Choosing a brilliant password
[3 comments] · 517 words (devours about 3 mins)Plenty of people tell you how not to choose a password and give terrible advice; few tell you how to do it properly. Let me thread you through the minefield.
How fast is too fast?
· 536 words (laps up about 3 mins)What happens to real-time systems when things accelerate to infinity and beyond? Slow downs that require some counter-intuitive head-scratching to circumvent.
Rozzers on Twitter
· 129 words (wastes less than a minute)Slack day at the office hounding motorists and beating people up? Tell the world about it on Twitter.
Maplin: world of lies
[2 comments] · 430 words (devours about 2 mins)A so-called “sales assistant” at Maplin or PC World is an oxymoron at best. Sometimes just a plain moron.
Here phishy phishy
· 289 words (eats up about 2 mins)Taking people out of the loop and using software to combat software is making computing less secure.
Leader of the pack
[1 comment] · 294 words (wastes about 2 mins)Is being numero uno to post on a blog all it’s cracked up to be?
The search for stupid
· 297 words (laps up about 2 mins)How do you find something unless you know what it’s called?
Group self learning
· 350 words (devours about 2 mins)Having the attitude to learn is more important than 180 billion dollars and some software.
