There are two types of home working. Working From Home Today, Remote Working, and unclassifiable versions. They are the same, mostly. WFH Today is a little easier, but if you do it frequently you are also Remote Working. I am a Remote Worker. I am writing this on my sofa…

You know what the X card system is, right? If not, I’ve cunningly linked the definition in the previous sentence. It’s a concept by John Stavropoulos originally introduced in 2012 where you place an index card with an X on it on the table, and if anyone is, for any…

The current world’s gone a lot towards cyberpunk. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I’m regularly using a massive network of computers, a lot of those networks are corporate-owned and most of the “normal” people use those, but the underground have a completely separate network with high encryption…

The Prime Minister of the UK, Theresa May, took the opportunity of the London Bridge terror attacks to say: Second, we cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the internet — and the big companies that provide internet-based services — provide…

A friend asked a question: People who are experts in something: what are the known unknowns, the great mysteries, of your field? And I said: If sufficiently complicated passwords can’t be remembered, and increasingly decreasing levels of simplicity in passwords can trivially be guessed by renting a subsection of a…

Twitter went down: The worst thing ever happen to the millennial Twitterarti I will never forget today. I was asleep when I found out that Twitter was down, and awoke to my partner reading Facebook. “Oh my god” they said, “Twitter has gone down”. I couldn’t believe it. It doesn’t…

One man’s attempt to watch a damn movie — Yesterday, I wanted to watch Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright’s tribute to cop movies and small village life, on my desktop computer. I own a dedicated mediacentre computer that serves video to any device in the house. It is the only Blu-ray device I own, and it was in the living…