2021-09-22 10:58
I listened to the audio book copy of “The Courage To Be Disliked” last year. It’s written as a discussion between a philosopher and a young man, about the concepts of Adler… Read More
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2020-12-04 14:40
I really enjoyed this fully-charged podcast and will be reading some Cory Doctorow. I especially liked the Bruce Sterling quote about the “grandfather problem”. This is the idea… Read More
2020-08-01 09:07
A very interesting company I heard about this week was a new cooperative in the UK called Ripple Energy. It’s working on the first consumer owned windfarm. The idea is that you can buy… Read More
2020-06-04 08:00
This is the final piece of my three-parter on the history of electric cars. Here, we move up to the present day and the exciting developments that have happened in the last few years, where… Read More
2020-06-02 19:42
A continuation of my previous article on EVs during the 19th Century, I now cover some significant events in the 20th century around electric cars. Arguably, during this time period, EVs had… Read More
2020-05-30 13:43
This is the first part of a three-parter on the history of EVs across the last 200 years or so. It comes from a Lunch & Learn presentation I did at work recently. I wanted to make a bit… Read More
2020-05-30 11:02
Charging the Kona at Lochee Charging Hub in DundeeHaving had our first Electric Vehicle for a little over a year, we’ve made a few long journeys that require the use of public chargers… Read More
2017-02-09 15:13
Note: This is an old post that was sitting in my drafts for a long time. It might be useful to someone still as most of the content is still relevant. I plan to produce a newer p… Read More
2017-01-07 11:10
There was a great BBC click podcast this week, covering some of the advances made in technology and music. There was some interesting stuff around Bjork’s new music video and art… Read More
2017-01-06 10:33
I’ve been diving into golang recently, partly by accident, given that we decided to use an open source docker service registration bridge called registrator. Registrator fil… Read More
2017-01-05 10:30
I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Rise of The Robots, by Martin Ford. It was a fascinating and insightful look at how robots and computers are used today to rep… Read More
2017-01-04 12:07
There’s a great article here on the benefits of co-working, and how it can transform what can be a lonely and difficult struggle for some people working at home, into an energising and… Read More
2016-10-09 09:57
Three years ago I wrote a detailed post with observations and advice on the Glastonbury Festival ticket sale, and how their website appears to work. Again, I was involved in the big refresh… Read More
2015-06-17 03:39
Babun is a nice distribution of cygwin with lots of pre-installed packages, and also a built in package manager called pact. It has an auto update tool, and includes most of the ansible requ… Read More
2015-05-13 15:54
After almost 10 years at Servelec-Corelogic I’ll be starting in a new position at Hudl on 1st June.
I’m excited and nervous about the change and looking forward to meeting m… Read More
2015-03-31 17:48
Since I started working for Corelogic in 2005, I only spent the first year working in the office every day. I lived in London for that year, within walking distance of the office, in a… Read More
2014-08-11 23:03
I’ve just been looking at a nice new tool called sysdig, which seems to be really useful for analysing and troubleshooting on production systems. There’s a great blog post… Read More
2014-04-04 19:35
I have recently had to sync accounts and groups from Activc Directory to OpenLDAP, for a requirement for a directory server in the DMZ. A DMZ (De-millitarised zone) is an area of the n… Read More
2014-01-13 17:46
A nice detailed description of how the oracle listener behaves in different scenarios, including the LOCAL_LISTENER parameter.
http://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/exploring-the-loca… Read More
2013-11-12 21:59
It’s been almost 15 years since the last standard of HTTP was ratified.
HTTP is the protocol which transports web pages across the internet. It’s a brilliantly thought out… Read More
2013-11-01 12:30
An excellent and informing interview with the founder of the Lavabit email service, who was recently involved in a legal case with the FBI, who attempted to force him to hand over SSL encryp… Read More
2013-10-31 12:54
There’s a new piece of ransomware in the wild, called Cryptolocker.
It’s a nasty piece of software that uses public/private keypairs to background encrypt all your documents and… Read More
2013-10-28 14:36
Simple Steps to Use Yum Rollback on Centos / RHEL 5
Some nice instructions on a simple backup/rollback technique for packages on Centos / RHEL 5.
This can be accomplished even more easily in… Read More
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