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 …
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! …
I ❤ Social Media
My name is Phil and I love social media. It’s not a guilty pleasure and I am not ashamed to stand up and declare it to the World. A guilty pleasure is secretly enjoying the Eurovision Song Contest or eating …
Do You Wanna Be A Record Breaker !?
I have now got to that time in my life where I am starting to reminisce about how good things were in ‘my day’ and although I love new technology and advances in science – I still think of ‘when …
Grand Designs
There is an old saying that ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ which if we now adjust for political correctness probably applies to every gender and every nationality. Most people would probably like to live in a nice place and …
No-brainer of the Year
I don’t really like using the term ‘no-brainer’ as you have to use your brain to decide it’s a no-brainer. There is probably some very clever academic term for this paradox. Like most folk, lock-down restrictions have played a big …