The internet is a reality for today’s businesses. If you’re not on it, you’re not out there. But it’s become more than just an advertising or marketing channel. It’s a routing mechanism for shipping information around the world.
Applications available to businesses in today’s IT world are becoming increasingly sophisticated. What used to be only for [...]
Tonight we are watching (old, I think) programmes about engineering and related topics. Mostly I have been tuned out but one caught my attention.
Top Gear’s Richard Hammond is breaking out on his own in the series Engineering Connections, and doing lots of engineering-related stuff. He’s at the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Richard has [...]
All my dear readers out there, fear not, I haven’t been abducted by aliens, nor have I decided to go bush with a swandri and a couple of tin mugs. Far too cold for that sort of thing.
I’ve been up to my ears in small children. Quite literally, some days. I wrote 9 weeks ago [...]
Telephones have had a huge impact on our society. Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re here to stay.
The telephone has changed over the years:
There are all sorts of telephones and cordless phones and expandable digital phones like Panasonic KX phones, and peculiar phones…
…and things to do with phones such as recording memos, keeping task lists, [...]
This is not my usual fare, but it’s a topic that is dear to me because I see it costing our society huge amounts in lost potential. The consequences of being afraid to try can mean loss of revenue, loss of confidence, loss of joy in life.
Fear of failing can hold people back from achieving [...]
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While many homes have television these days things are not as simple as getting an aerial fitted and plugging in your box. One thing you need to think about how to get your television signal delivered.
There are many different ways of receiving your television signal. As well as traditional terrestrial television broadcast to aerials (which [...]
Take a light-hearted look at the recession. These points were posted as comments on a news website.
1. Visit friends around meal times. 5pm is a good time as it’s dinner time and dinner is the most expensive meal of the day. Everyone has at least 5 friends, so that’s five free meals a week.
2. [...]
The old Chinese proverb of wishing that your enemies are to “live in interesting times” seems to be the curse of the moment. Words like ‘unprecedented’ and ‘not in our lifetimes’ are being bandied about by serious looking commentators in news and analysis programmes worldwide. Former British PM John Major told the BBC’s Andrew Marr [...]
Professor Deb Roy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was more interested in language for the sake of robots, than for understanding how babies develop it. But when he had his own baby and realised that the research on language acquisition only provided snapshots of baby-babbling, Professor Roy decided to turn his home into [...]