Wrong Side Of 40

How Executive Orders Are Threatening U.S. Democracy

I haven’t posted for an age and I didn’t have much to say, or nothing that I could find the time or inclination to write about. Odd really, as we went through Covid, Trump v1, Ukraine kicked off, I had an accident or two – so much happened. I removed myself from most of social…

Carrilion

The collapse of the huge British concern Carrilion has been all over the news these past weeks. Apparently, it was known by the government as far back as October that the company was in trouble but from what we know, despite attempts, the company ultimately failed in January and was put into administration. One of…

Encryption might be the one thing we have left.

In the news right now is the story of Apple being told by a judge that they have to provide the FBI with a way to get access to the data inside an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bardino attacks in the USA. The issue seems to revolve around encryption and…

Done with Twitter

On 15th February comedian, writer and broadcaster Stephen Fry announced he was done with Twitter as “too many people have peed in the pool“. After reading his article I sat back and thought about everything he said and was motivated to do the same. Twitter does nothing for me, and hasn’t for some time. I find…

Why don’t you patch that shit!

During routine audits of platforms at a place I work at we noted to our dismay, but sadly not to our surprise, that a number of customers are failing to maintain their WordPress, Drupal and other installations. This is not only irresponsible but downright dangerous. In discussions with some customers our technical support team have heard…

Time to bin Facebook?

Somebody I’m friends with on Facebook re-posted somebody else’s post over the weekend. It was the usual joke pic type thing, this time a dig at BMW drivers. I’m not sure how it works in other countries but, in the UK it’s a national pastime amongst non BMW drivers – knocking BMW drivers. As an…