Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
“Because It’s Friday”, something to ease you into the weekend, after a week of “bad” cyber security news. This week something quick from Randall Munroe. Scary Triangles – xkcd Have a good weekend – I am spending mine building IKEA furniture! Clive Photo by Adrien Olichon
Three Body Problem Having watched 3 Body Problem on Netflix, last weekend, I could not miss this article from The Conversation, by Tony Milligan from King’s College London, on Because It’s Friday. Tony has a great job title, Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Ethics, Cosmological Visionaries project! 3 Body …
Interesting facts about titanium: However titanium is not what today’s “Because It’s Friday” is about. It is about the Periodic Table which when I was at college I had memorised. University Challenge Diana and I watch University Challenge and are always impressed by the knowlege shown by the contestants – …
No Because It’s Friday tomorrow – here is something to amuse you today. It is especially for those of you who have to deal with people at work, or at home, or at work and at home, who take a more relaxed approach to their handwriting: xkcd: Cursive Letters Smart Thinking will …
For our “Because It’s Friday” bit this week I have a couple of moon cartoons from xkcd. I think these decisively prove that Randall Munroe has a very different way of thinking than the average geeky person. xkcd: Moon Landing Mission Profiles xkcd: Moon Armor Index From the real world …
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The Richter Scale of earthquake strength is something we are all unfortunately acquainted with and it is also something that most of us get completely wrong. For a start the Richter Scale is no longer used! Watch this xkcd video and learn how much power the Death Star generated. For …
Let’s start today with the fact that Google says there are far too many characters in my title. The Google appointed SEO gods are only happy if your title has no more 60 characters because they care about * their users. Here comes another quote from today’s video “Google is …
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