Way back in the late Sixties I picked up a number of useful skills. AND they had nothing to do with computers. Apart from tie dying which was messy and great fun, I learnt how…
Month: June 2006
Lightning Photography
Storm chaser Michael Bath has been photographing severe weather for almost twenty years. He’s archived hundreds of his beautiful photos of thunderstorms and lightning on his Web site, Lightning Photography Here are some of his…
Australia, atoms and nuclear accidents
John Howard recently announced that Australia ( that’s the former democracy) is going to go nuclear. Now, he assures us that this decision will be thoroughly investigated. Pity it’s a decision already rather than a…
freeSSH and puTTY
Geek Alert! I have a client who insists that their perimeter controls are enough, and they blithely use telnet inside their network. I prefer to uses SSH wherever it is possible. It’s a doddle to…
Monday Morning “Impediment to Productivity” – 20060626
Hi, Sorry but Monday has been cancelled. Yes I know what you are thinking… you just looked and it’s definitely there. But as far as I am concerned it’s still Sunday and I am going…
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
If you are like me you use Google a dozen or more times a day. But do you know about say, the Google Snake Game? How about Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and…