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Surfing LNER

Anybody remember the classic Beachboys song ‘Surfing USA’?  Well how about ‘Surfing LNER’ as an alternative? I am getting dismayed in my classes as my references to all time great music hits are now being met with sideways glances and …

Money Can’t Buy Me Love

Lennon and McCartney geniuses ahead of their time penned and chanted these famous words of wisdom back in the 1960’s. Although you could argue against it, they are probably true words. Recently, I was doing some research at work – …

R is for Security

A lot of users, consumers and companies were hit by the recent Facebook outage in early October.  Speculation ran high as to the cause of the outage and most probably a fair percentage of us instantly thought – “Cyber Attack!?”  …

What’s Your Porn-Star Name?

Strange question and unless you are a porn-star you probably don’t have one?! However, we probably know the joke.  Take your first pets name and your mothers maiden name and hey presto!  That (apparently) would be your porn-star name (please …

Transferable Skills

Recently on LinkedIn there was an interesting post from a chap who was looking to help a young friend who was not doing well at school but was gifted with computers and wanted to get into the world of hacking …

Those Who Can’t Do, Teach!

Admittedly I have only heard this a few times in my 14 years of being a trainer and although this is a fallacy penned by George Bernard Shaw, some people do believe it.  My response is generally that “Those That …

Don’t Twitch! Watch!

Those of you who may know me personally will know that I have quite a few hobbies outside of the World of Tech. Yes kids – there is a whole world of stuff out there that doesn’t involve a screen! …