I am currently recovering from minor surgery… but nothing in surgery is minor as I struggle to move and need assistance with pretty much everything. Thanksfully I am on painkillers. Not the glamorous sort that inspire a new Operating System or terrible life choices in Las Vegas, but enough to ... Read More

I’ve been watching my phone battery go to 37% lately and it’s giving me anxiety even though I know I can make it through the day. This is why I don’t think I’ll ever be able to live with an electric car. The Scanner That Scanned Itself Trivy, the widely ... Read More

In 1966, an MIT computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum built a chatbot called ELIZA. It was extremely simple by today’s standards which simply rephrased whatever you typed as a question.  Tell it “my boyfriend made me come here” and it would respond “your boyfriend made you come here?” It was ... Read More

I’m in Antwerp, Belgium to attend CyberNova. European travel is nice. As my friend Erich says, “you fall over in Europe and land in another country” which isn’t wrong. It takes me longer to get to the airport than the flight over to Brussels. Although, ever since Brexit, it pains ... Read More

Note: I wrote a similar title for a blog post I was writing at work, but some of the kids thought no-one would get the reference (probably because they didn’t and didn’t want to look stupid). So if you get the reference, please let me know! Anyway, onto our regular ... Read More

When I travel abroad, I become a different person. I find myself doing things i would never do at home. Last week I landed in Billund. It’s small, Danish town, and home of Lego. The hotel was in Aarhus. Perfectly reasonable. Except getting there required taking a coach. A coach ... Read More

I was going to be click-baity and title this post, “what incident response taught me about mixing up airports”, but honestly, looking at LinkedIn these days, I think the humour would be lost. I’d end up with 50 new followers (75 if I ended the post with the word, “Agree?” ... Read More

There’s a peculiar disease that infects children somewhere between the ages of six and twelve. It’s not chickenpox or measles, though it spreads just as quickly through playgrounds and birthday parties. It’s the chronic need to establish dominance through increasingly absurd claims of material superiority. “Our car goes faster than ... Read More

Dear British Airways, I saw your latest business class sale advert. Beautiful photography, tasteful fonts, the usual tasteful smattering of champagne, winglets and folded duvets. Very on brand. And yet, in a strange way, it completely misses the point. From the ad, one can only assume the principal desire of ... Read More

There’s an old story about a village that finally got electricity. Everyone bought fridges. A few months later, the elders gathered and suggested the unthinkable… “get rid of them!” Before the fridges, leftover food was shared. No one went to bed hungry. After the fridges, leftovers were hoarded “just in ... Read More