Sometimes it’s the simple things that can really make your day. Logging into my admin panel this morning I was greeted with this little gem. That peak there? My busiest…
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I have a lot of respect for fine engineering. It doesn’t matter what field it comes from either as I find there’s an elegance about things that have been so…
William Gibson, the author of the seminal cyberpunk book Neuromancer, is quoted as saying that “the future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”. I think that’s quite apt as…
This blog can really be the bane of my existence sometimes. Whilst most days I’m able to rifle through a couple hundred articles in my RSS feeds and find a topic that…
Imagine a social gathering, you’re familiar with most of the people there but not all of them so you’ve been engaging with some small talk so you don’t spend the…
It seems that no matter how long I keep doing this whole blogging thing I’m still unable to judge which of my posts will end up being popular, controversial or…
I’m a very firm believer in the adage of “either put up or shut up”. I often talk with people about their ideas for things and how much better they’d…
There’s an old saying that goes something along the lines of “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to…
Like many engineers I have trouble with throwing out things that are potentially useful. I’ve got several containers stuffed with computer parts, a few more laden with electronics bits and…
I was never a big fan of writing. I’m a very stereotypical nerd/engineer in that respect as I always struggled to get my thoughts down on paper, especially when I…