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Let it Snow
Happy New Year to all my readers, I hope the new year and the new decade bring good times for you. I love snow. Yesterday and today we’ve had a good covering of lovely fluffy powder snow across South Wales, there’s about 5 inches on my driveway right...
Watch the Skies
Today, for the first time in years, the machinery at Lancaster University suddenly ground into action and sent me a text message informing me of a “Possible Sudden Storm Commencement”. [ Update 18:15 - Lancaster University emailed to say it...
Electric Dreams: 30 Years of Technological Time Travel
  BBC - Electric Dreams - Home Page Do you remember the 1970s? So do I. From Electric Dreams Blog to the BBC TV series, take a trip down memory lane and recapture your childhood. Available on BBC iPlayer , this retrospective series takes a tongue...
A Fantastic Stroke of Luck
I was just watching a repeat of the series “Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain”. I couldn't help but be impressed by his closing sentence: “Looking ahead, we world’s islanders (as we have become) are more open and perhaps more vulnerable than...
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups...
Revisiting a Prediction
Two years ago today, I stuck my neck out and predicted the end of the hard drive . So how did I do? Well, I’m betting you’ve still got a hard drive in your computer, so in that sense I was wrong. But, the march of Solid State Drives (SSD) is inexorable...
We Are Not The Masters Of Creation
“The true wealth of all nations comes from clean rivers, healthy soil and most importantly, a rich biodiversity of life”. “…we are not what we think we are. We are not the masters of creation. No matter how sophisticated our technology has become, the...
This Is Stupid
In a nod to Seth Godin’s amusing This Is Broken video, I’d like to nominate ParcelForce as Stupid Company of the Week . I received a letter from them today, containing this text (from memory): “Dear Mr. Long, we are currently holding a parcel for you...
MVP renewed for a third year
Microsoft renewed my MVP award yesterday, so I’m still in the exclusive club of UK Small Business Server MVPs. My co-conspirators are Andy Trish, who is in his first year and Steve Foster, who’s been an SBS MVP since before the beginning of time. This...
So It Begins
Remember my prediction that Twitter is doomed ? Well that may have been a tad strong, but according to @astronomy, things are starting to go downhill. Share this post: | | |
Perspective
In the late 1980s or early 90s I remember agonizing over downloading 100K GIF images because they were so large and took ages on my 1200 baud Hayes SmartModem. Back in those days I was running Windows 3.11 Workgroup Edition on a PC with 640K of RAM. I...
How is the Recession Affecting IT Budgets?
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Twitter is Doomed
According to Seth Godin, “ friction saves the medium ”. Twitter, like email, has no “friction” and therefore suffers from the paradox that to grow it must be really easy to use, so too easy to abuse. I think he may be right about twitter, but for slightly...
Windows 7 RC available April 30
According to the Windows Blog , Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers around April 30th, then available to the general public around May 5th. From my experience of past Microsoft betas and releases I would guess...
Click Back
I got a mention on BBC Click this week when Spencer Kelly read out my feedback on their investigation into cybercrime and bot-nets. The original article should be compulsory viewing for all computer users, especially those using computers in business...
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