When I was a kid, out strolling with my mum, we would often meet a lady of similar age to my mum who'd had a child that suffered from Down's Syndrome. Back then in the 1960s / 70s, it was a rare sigh…
moralityFirst of all, for anyone unaware of the news stories about the two pre-teen thugs from Edlington who tortured and abused two little boys, here's a link to the story. Now, I passed a comment o…
I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists. The idea is that much privacy legislation …
If you take a look at the section of this blog that lists posts by the month in which they appear, you'll see that whilst recent months have been pretty regular, there have been some hiatuses in the p…
Some years ago I worked for a large UK bank-assurer as a contract software developer. One project that I became involved with was to provide a bug tracking / change management system. As with all soft…
On 29th December, 1170, four knights of King Henry 2nd killed Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus created a martyr of a man who's principles had forced him to behave in a manner that was…
Long before it was the title of a movie, it was a fairly well known saying. In the UK it was more likely to be 'What happens in Blackpool, stays in Blackpool', or, as time passed, what happened in Es…
One of my 'guilty secret' films is the 1982 John Badham movie 'War Games', in which a teenager inadvertently starts the countdown to World War 3 by hacking in to a military computer system. He thinks …
I was reminded earlier today, whilst reading a book called 'Life 101', of a useful piece of advice from one of the more under-rated personal development gurus of the mid 20th Century - Sergeant Ernes…
In ancient Jewish society, the scapegoat was a normal goat that was ceremonially loaded with all the sins of the community, and then driven from town in to the wilderness, as part of the ceremonies ar…