Archive For The “Internet” Category
OK this is shameless self publicity, but what the hell, its my blog! Finally, I’ve got around to putting a portfolio of my photography up on the web. It can be found at Electrical Image, hosted by the very wonderful 500px. Should anyone become so enthralled as to wish to purchase any of my work, [...]
I’ve put off writing this post in the aftermath of the rioting, partly because I’m keenly aware that ranting about politics is not what this blog was originally set up to do, partly because I suspected in my cynical and road weary fashion that we’d get a bunch of soundbytes from Prime Minister Cameron asserting [...]
I’m reasonably sure, despite various comments from parents, colleagues and partners that I don’t feature on the autistic spectrum of behaviour – well, no more than the next geek anyway. I will confess to taking an interest in how I interact on the social web though, spurred on by a couple of sites I have [...]
Google executive Wael Ghonim was incarcerated by the Egyptian authorities during the uprisings in January and February of this year, having created a Facebook page in support of the protests. TED have wasted no time in getting him to give a talk on wh…
Google executive Wael Ghonim was incarcerated by the Egyptian authorities during the uprisings in January and February of this year, having created a Facebook page in support of the protests. TED have wasted no time in getting him to give a talk on wh…
‘Digitage Web 2.0′ by ocean.flynn (issued under CC-BY-NC-SA license)As with so many millions of others around the world, the Internet has become a major feature of my life. Not only do I spend a lot of ‘leisure’ time on it, but I also use it and tea…
This little baby died on me this week. Particularly foolishly for an IT Teacher, I’d been carrying around most of my day-to-day critical data around on it without a full backup of the most recent stuff on it. Last Sunday, I was working late as usual an…
Combobulate – to bring something out of a state of confusion or disarray. Cloud computing is a game changing innovation that will change the way we think of computers for ever. Unusually for game changing plays, this one is the product of incremental innovations delivered over a period of several years. Service Oriented Architecture, Virtualisation [...]
Like an irritating, hyperactive teenager, Rockmelt will not be ignored. Alerts from Facebook, Twitter and a host of rss feeds allow this browser to barge into your consciousness at will. Is this progress or a recipe for a nervous breakdown? It’s taken a while for the browser landscape to settle down. Internet Explorer, cumbersome, slow [...]
