Tax Break
As you will all have realised from the seemingly endless blipverts coming out of the ISA punters, the accountants and if you are very unlucky Her Majesty’s Revenue And Customs, it is the end of the tax year this week in the UK. The end of any arbitrary period always presents opportunity for someone. The […]
Eoin, Eoin, Gone
As our regular readers came to realise 380 weekly blogs ago (or something like that), we are a fairly cynical bunch trying to tread the lines between what is real, what can we do to help, what is just fantasy, let alone Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt industry scaremongering (GDP Argh being a classic case in […]
White Dross
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553424145962{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]You would be forgiven for thinking that we might be talking about the Australian extremist who murdered 50 men, women and children in cold blood this week. But we won’t be affording him any further mention. White Dross is the primary by-product of aluminium production and recycling (who knew?). This week there […]
Crash, Bang, Wallop
As computer systems become increasingly integral, unavoidable and essential components of our everyday lives, the potential impact of failure does not sit easily with the drivers for development such as profit, performance and feature enhancement. Regular readers of this blog or attendees of our Cyber Summit, which now seems a lifetime away, may recall our […]
Tooled Up
This week has been the week of the annual RSA security conference held this year at the Moscone Centre in lovely San Francisco. As with all vendor-sponsored events, quite a lot of the event is all about tools. Old tools, new tools, tools that are but a twinkle in the eye of the creator being […]
No Shizzle Sherlock
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Regular readers may be very well aware that we have been calling out Crypto Currency as the Wild West for some time. We have seen many alleged heists of Crypto Exchanges (as in; you exchange your money for nothing), like Mt Gox, and Zaif, all of which are very suspicious. In February we discussed the […]
Mad as a Black Hatter
The expression ‘mad as a hatter’ is apparently an old English colloquial saying, which predates Lewis Carroll’s brilliant character. Amongst many theories for the origins is the fact that hardworking milliners in times of yore were often poisoned by mercury used in the process. Lovely. We all know that it doesn’t take mercury to drive […]
Pandora’s Box
At the ITC Cyber Summit this year, which was well attended and according to feedback “interesting”, we made some predictions for the coming year. Amongst them was this: Containerisation, Cloud and Agile, what could possibly go wrong? There is a furious rush to migrate to cloud based containerised services and develop applications at breakneck speed […]
Cryo Currency
The news this week was alive with a story about the Canadian crypto-currency exchange QuadrigaCX , who’s CEO is unfortunately not (alive). Gerald Cotten, the aforementioned CEO is reported to have died in on the 9th December in Jaipur India, of complications from Crohn’s disease whilst apparently opening an orphanage. As well as being a shocking […]
ZuckBook
Firstly, we would like to thank all of you who took time out of your busy days to attend our Cyber Summit yesterday in London. We heard from the venerable Paddy McGuinness CMG OBE (some say that it stands for Call Me God), who recommended that this is a year for self-reliance and being in […]