Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have two “Because It’s Friday” things for you today. The first is the continuing search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life: How gravitational waves could help detect Star Trek-style warp drive spaceships – The Conversation The second is from xkcd and is another maths joke. An occasional series I started because my son is …
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 have a couple of quick things today from the mind of Randall Munroe. An “old” look at the Periodic Table showing how revising was for a chemistry exam was so much easier back in Ancient Greece: xkcd: Classical Periodic Table And one about simple mechanics: xkcd: Ferris Wheels Have …
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I am about to go to Scotland on holiday and this showed up on The Conversation: In defence of midges (theconversation.com) I am not sure Diana, or our Scottish family and friends would get much comfort from this point of view. Now for something completely different… …we will continue our …
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I was going to avoid CrowdStrike in today’s “Because It’s Friday”, which is why I ran this on Wednesday: In the aftermath of CrowdStrike… Sharks! But then Randall Munroe got involved on xkcd: xkcd: CrowdStrike If you want something that is not “Global IT Outage” related, this is what this …
