This is the 1000th news feed post here at Smart Thinking, so I was told by Marketing I needed to do something special. I would have simply gone on reporting the stories of the day and giving out advice, making sure you are all provided with a range of cyber …
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
I just missed these announcements for last week’s “Because It’s Friday”. NASA has released the first scientific infrared images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA Senior Project Scientist John Mather Reflects on Journey to Webb’s First Images – James …
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Because It’s Friday – A guide to computer terms from 1981 and good advice for computer users in 2022
Who remembers Tandy, the electronics store? There was one in the Grays shopping centre, when I was kid, as there were in many other towns around the country, and I bought stuff from them. Although the free battery card never really did work out. Radio Shack was the US parent …
Because It’s Friday – IT and Cyber Security support powered by of course… coffee
The link is tenuous but this article by Claudia Wascher and Thomas Ings from Anglia Ruskin University is worth a read: How the birds and the bees help coffee plants (theconversation.com) Let’s go back to last week’s Because It’s Friday So you want the answer? We only had one winner …
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The inaugural “Because It’s Friday” fun quiz – with prizes!
Depending on the popularity of today’s quiz, this may become a thing! Today’s fun quiz is inspired by this xkcd cartoon: xkcd: Roman Numerals The BBC2 quiz, Only Connect, hosted by the one and only Victoria Coren Mitchell, is a firm favourite of Diana, our son Jeremy and myself. Jeremy …
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