Small fires in jam jars
By the time I got interested in radio and electronics - when I was about 10 years old, in the early 1970s, most new radios and TVs weren't using valves anymore; you'd still find old stuff in junk stor…
Tagged: technology
The Why of Spam...
Not the delicious and non-nutritious tinned pork product, but the unsolicited email. Spam has a long history: "On May 3, 1978, the Internet witnessed a glorious and not particularly welcome birth: The…
The end of the road for paper maps?
I'm always a bit behind with what I read online, and this is a story from about a month or so ago. Are paper maps dead? For those of us of a certain age who did things like the Duke of Edinburgh's Aw…
There's one thing we got to get, Heyes....
...and that's out of this business!" One of the TV highlights of the week for me in the early 1970s was the TV series 'Alias Smith and Jones', following the adventures of two outlaws on probation, Han…
The Last of the Magicians
"He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build …
'Does Microsoft move the cheese too often?'
Every now and again I bother to read something about my profession. I know that this sounds rather bad - continuous professional development and all that stuff - but usually I'm too busy doing stuff …
And Facebook carries on downwards....
In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO. It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn't gone according to plan; the usual 'Day One Spike' associate…
The obligatory Facebook IPO post....or...Hey! Zuckerberg! You're my bitch!
Well, despite the state of the world economy, Facebook finally managed it's IPO today and ended the day at roughly the same level as it launched at, having had a high point of about $42 and a start po…
Happy (Belated) Birthday Speccy!
It always takes me a while to catch up with things, but it was recently the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum. Like many of a certain age, the Speccy was one of the computers on which I cut my te…
Google Drive...to get your stuff.
I've always had the attitude that any company that has to remind it's staff to 'Do No Evil' is either employing the wrong sort of people or is trying hard to hide the fact that they might not be parag…