Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have seen “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” so for this week’s “Because It’s Friday” let’s look at the star of the movie – Dippy. Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum I can remember seeing Dippy on my first school trip to the …
Regular readers will know I like a good sci-fi story and especially a time-travel story. At the moment I am reading the classic Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven and I am part way through the more modern series Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor. However, there are two main …
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I know this looks like an IT post about the cost of inkjet ink verses everything else you have to pay for when printing a page – (DEC inserted) including the environmental cost, but it isn’t. How many printers do you need to print Wikipedia? For today’s “Because It’s Friday” …
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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 – …
This is not so much a funny as topical, with the online (and real world) Christmas shopping rush in full progress. (For those of you still shopping – I’m done.) One Foot Tsunami: Package Camoflauge So, talking of Christmas gifts, this is an opportunity to point you at Octagon’s blog …
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