You’re reading it, so you’re partially guilty..
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Almost every blogger nowadays seems to start with “I really have neglected my blog“. Blame Faceboook, they did a number on blogging. Twitter, as it was, was the lazy blog of the moment. Then it got weird and all Musky. Oh, and a pandemic which drove us inside our homes and out of our minds.…
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When non-technical people refer to IT people as “a computer wizard” they do realize it’s just a soubriquet, right? We’re not actually magicians; we just do weird stuff that “the norms” can’t do, mainly because they had a social life during their teenage years. Customer today wants a refund because, and I quote, they “did…
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There’s a problem in Silicon Valley. The problem is the appearance of chasing the cool and ‘awesome’, when the reality, of course, is that, once funded and then the end-goal of massive IPO is achieved, the company takes on board members who wish to please shareholders. It’s all about the bottom-line dime. The myth of…
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I was going to post something about coding, software development, the process of writing what we have come to call ‘applications’ but which I, for 35 years have always called ‘computer programming’. And then I came across this story on the BBC News – a site which is still lifting the pennant of true journalism…
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If you are a software developer then I am probably more productive than you. Not necessarily better or more skillful, for sure there are so many to look up to; but more productive? Yes I might well be. Sorry (not sorry). OK, so perhaps I’m trolling Y’all a little bit and I’m sure there will…
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The future is voice. Fact. Get ready for it. Watch this space…
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Doh – it’s one of those days – I need to rant…. The hard part about being a computer programmer is dealing with people who say “well, can you just explain it to me, it can’t be that hard” when they’re discussing a piece of software or code I’ve written or I’m about to write.…
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Take a moment, if you would, to watch this video from start to finish. Even if you hated Steve Jobs, think Apple is a tool of the devil or believe that I am in some way a shameless Apple fanboy (I may be, perhaps I drank the wrong kind of KoolAid, the ’80s are a…
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Well, unless of course that’s what you’re in to in which case…go ahead. So, out there, is Siri, Google Glass with its Google Now stablemate and now Cortana from Microsoft. It’s all about getting personal with the impersonal. Soft ends to the hardware. It’s probably not by accident that Microsoft chose a name which is…
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I’m going to propose a new standard performance metric called “The Dead Hooker Metric”. This is especially for management agents of properties for let and specifically for those that manage group properties like apartment estates and so on. It’s as simple as this: If you fail to notice, in a reasonable time, a dead hooker* lying somewhere…
Filth, lies, truth and blame 
