Mind Your AI P’s and Q’s – it might be a Peaky Blinder!
How many of us say please and thank you when using a GenAI chat application? For some strange reason – I have always said please but rarely say thank you (to an AI). Let me know if you do as …
Learn How to Take Control with Teaching and Training
It is a question that is often asked in the World of Education – ‘what’s the difference between teaching and training? Are a teacher and a trainer the same thing and more importantly, are the end results identical? I love …
Life in The Balance
We often hear about how important it is to maintain a healthy work-life balance, but the reality is often far from easy. I am certainly not an expert therapist or profess to be the best person manager in the world …
Don’t Just Read All About It!
Books are amazing. As a kid I loved reading and then for some strange reason I went off the joy of it during secondary school. I think it was the fact that we had to learn how to interpret the …
Setting Standards
Rather ironically there is no standard definition for the word ‘standard’. It can mean any of the following: And even more ironically the term ‘standard’ when used by newspapers (like the Daily Standard etc) refers to the high level of …
It’s Just Educated Guesswork!
Who can remember, as a kid when you fell over in the playground and scraped your knee that the teacher (who probably wasn’t a medical expert) got a wet paper towel and applied some kind of magic that made it …
Taking time out to flex with the EC Council CCISO boxset!
Those of you who are close to me will know that I have been off my feet for a few weeks following knee surgery. It forced me to take sick leave – which is something that I rarely do, and …
Beware the Curly Spider
Anybody scared of spiders? Arachnophobia (check me out!) is high up on the list of the Top 10 things that people are scared of and accounts for between 3-15% of the total population (according to my AI sources). Very few …
Mind the Gap
I have been driving a car since the late 80’s. On a scale of 1-10 I would say that my driving is an ‘8’. In all the years I have been driving I have had two minor rear-end shunts (my …
Buckle Up for CISSP!
Following on from my last blog – this year I have decided (and been actively encouraged by my boss!) to get some certs tucked away and so for the past 3 years – it has been a target of mine …