• Disruptive Technologies

    Ever since the dawn of time we have had disruptive technologies that change the way we work and play. Starting with fire this enabled us to cook the food we hunted and gathered for then agriculture that allowed us to not be nomadic anymore then the wheel and so on and so on right up…

  • Done and Dusted

    Well that is the first year all sewn up and we got an average of 58.66% scores so quite happy with that considering its been over 20 years since I have been in a classroom and even longer writing academic papers. Am with a bunch of great people on my course and I am looking…

  • Two Down….

    Thats two modules in the bag for this semester just got to wait for the final one and then we can start to prepare for next year! python reintroduction and networking to revise and configure. Once the final result comes in I might be able to relax for a couple of days before going at…

  • Business Continuity Plan

    What is the first thing I would want to see as part of an onboarding would be the business continuity plan as we learned yesterday during the AWS outage that a lot of companies rely on services that are vulnerable to themselves as well as threat actors…… Diversifying where services are hosted and having a…

  • Done and Dusted!!!

    Thats it am done for the year….. Time to look for a job cause this UC life dont fit me anymore (not that it ever did) best way to learn things is practice and I now have 5 months to get more clued up than I am right now. plenty to do

  • Here we go again!

    Well its hand in time again and this time I am not as organised as before. I still managed to do the work and hand it in on time so far so nice work! I just have to edit and produce a 3 minute informercial of gamification in education. Fun topic and linked to what…

  • Intel and Nvidia

    hmmmm I wonder if the recent fun and games with ARM and Nvidia have anything to do with this partnership. I am all for it, not sure what its going to do for the marketplace but high performance RTCX based GPU onboard a CPU… could be good, we will see.

  • Problem Solving

    Well I really need to get on with this assessment as my tutor wants to see what progress I have made on the portfolio. I have done most of the exercises but they are not in any order. I should sort it out today I just have a few household chores to do and then…

  • Summer????

    Well thats it teaching has finished for the year and we are now on what would be our summer holidays…. The last couple of semesters have been good and I have learnt quite a bit about how to do stuff to an academic style and time management with my mentor. We have just got hand…

  • Critical Infrastructure

    Do we guard and protect our critical infrastructure? or because of privatisation has it been neglected in the pursuit of profit. I am interested in how we secure these systems and how they work. There are sites out there that can teach this industrial technologies and simulate industrial control systems simulations that you can hack…