Windows 8 and all that.
Michael
The first time I was upset about an operating-system upgrade was in 1984. PRIMOS had a minor version upgrade to 19.2 and whilst I had retrospectively complained about the change…
Groupthink
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As many of you may know, I have a somewhat large and extensive computer museum, a lot of which can be seen on http://old.technology. I didn’t start collecting these because…
The Emperor’s New Currency
Two seemingly unrelated events decided to correlate themselves in my head today and I thought I would ponder out loud just for the irony value. Firstly there was a seemingly…
Three Rs for the Modern Age
This is going to seem a rather odd post; given that I am the creator of one of the most successful Freecycle groups in the world – But I am…
Doctor Steaming Pile of Turd
It has finally happened. The gnomes on the Internet and I agree on something; namely that the last two Doctor Who episodes (The Pandorica Opens and Big Bang) were one…
How not to fire your Security Manager.
If you have ever read my resume on this site you will notice that I passingly refer to being sacked from British Telecom three times. Occasionally people ask for the…
