Archives

The following is all the articles that have been published for this site.

• 2022 in review
• Compassionomics ~ book review
• People are leaking their RDS database backups
• What makes a great product manager by James Hamilton
• Adrift America in 100 Charts ~ book review
• The touch of Music
• The Cold Start Problem ~ book review
• Movies/TV of 2021
• Double finger Chromebook Tip
• Stop it with .. “world famous”
• Stop it with the .. “Unlimited”
• Isolation – things I have discovered
• Uber Works – car no longer required
• FedEx CEO finally admits Amazon is a real competitor
• Netflix Loses No. 1 Spot as Bandwidth User for 2019
• Audi unveils Mars rover-looking electric off-roader
• Hands up who didn’t see this coming?  FDA warns Juul for marketing e-cigs as safe
• Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password
• Productive Time Management
• My Top 2018 TV
• My Top 2018 Movies
• Amazon Lambda now accepting SQS events directly (nearly)
• The Gemini PDA 2018; hands on review
• 3 simple guidelines to protect our ever connected ‘smart’ device universe
• The browser war is over; guess who won?
• Couple of tricks to manage a Zero Inbox
• ‘Save’ has all but been eliminated on the web; when will it die on the desktop?
• Too late; Amazon’s Kindle finally waterproof
• Orlando-Richmond :: A 1600 mile Tesla story
• Tesla Model S warned driver in fatal crash to put hands on steering wheel
• RNC research firm leaks data of 200m US citizens
• Do you still buy e-books as much as you did?
• Amazon will change Whole Foods – but to what?
• Amazon buys Whole Foods $13.4B
• Email still the king of social networks
• FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database
• Those blue signs are cheaper than you think
• Verizon * (Yahoo + AOL) = Oath
• Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun
• What Ello/Theranos can teach – HBR
• Tim Armstrong on being a CEO
• Get Android on Windows 10
• Moved from RackSpace to FastMail
• Heating the home with heat from servers
• US military data found unprotected on Amazon S3
• ‘Internet Trends 2017’ Kleiner Perkins Report – my highlights
• Let Amazon Echo Show you the future
• This is what Amazon Dash should have been
• Week’s Top Tech 8; 8th – 15th Jan 2017
• The problem with Amazon’s Alexa
• Week’s Top Tech 8; 2nd – 7th Jan 2017
• Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 19th Dec
• Chromebook Pixel – Battery Replacement
• Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 12th Dec
• Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 5th Dec
• Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 28th Nov
• Chromebook Adventure
• Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 21st Nov
• Last Week’s Top 8 Tech Stories – 14th Nov
• The next AWS? Tesla, GM or Ford
• Last Week’s Top 8 Tech Stories – 7th Nov
• Last Weeks Top 8 Tech Stories – 31st Oct
• Weekly Top 8 Tech Stories – 24th October
• Weekly Top 8 Tech Stories – 17th October
• Weekly Top 8 Tech Stories – 10th October
• Working with the SalesForce REST API
• Weekly Top 8 Tech Stories – 3rd October
• This week’s highlinks – 26th Sep 2016
• Tech news round up – 19th Sep 2016
• Pandora, where did it all go wrong?
• Buffer – Customer Service Award
• Amazon WorkSpaces – Hourly vs. Monthly
• Cloud != Scale; Are you really ready? 
• How I travel Part 2: the software
• How I travel Part 1 : the hardware
• An “uber-fication” of the Internet
• 2022
• 2025
• 2028
• 2031
• 2034
• 2037
• 2040
• 2043
• 2046
• 2049
• 2052
• 2055
• 2058
• 2061
• 2064
• 2067
• 2070
• 2073
• 2076
• 2079
• The Challenger (2013)
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• Mr. Holmes (2015)
• Trumbo (2015)
• Lord of War (2005)
• Time Lapse (2014)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Frozen (2013)
• Youth (2015)
• The Transporter (2002)
• Death at a Funeral (2007)
• Ted 2 (2015)
• The Runner (2015)
• Momentum (2015)
• Get Low (2009)
• Gravity (2013)
• Stone of Destiny (2008)
• Sam Whiskey (1969)
• Sunshine on Leith (2013)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• Titanic (1997)
• About Time (2013)
• In the Loop (2009)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• Trainwreck (2015)
• Music and Lyrics (2007)
• Spectre (2015)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
• Office Space (1999)
• Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
• 3 Days to Kill (2014)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Calvary (2014)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
• Michael Jackson: One (2013)
• Plastic (2014)
• Beasts of no Nation (2015)
• The Angels’ Share (2012)
• Clear and Present Danger (1994)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
• Bridge of Spies (2015)
• School for Scoundrels (1960)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Shanghai Noon (2000)
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
• Three Amigos (1986)
• National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
• Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014)
• The Rock (1996)
• The Age of Adaline (2015)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Pixels (2015)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• San Andreas (2015)
• Terminator Genisys (2015)
• Z for Zachariah (2015)
• Results (2015)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• The Martian (2015)
• Tequila Sunrise (1988)
• Man Up (2015)
• Magic Mike XXL (2015)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• Everest (2015)
• Waking Ned Devine (1998)
• Air America (1990)
• Tomorrowland (2015)
• Up in the Air (2009)
• Black Sea (2014)
• National Treasure (2004)
• The Train Robbers (1973)
• Road to Pedition (2002)
• Spy (2015)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• The Rum Diary (2011)
• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
• Electric Dreams (1984)
• Maverick (1994)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Island (2005)
• Standby (2014)
• Harry Brown (2009)
• Heat (1995)
• The Ladykillers (2004)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Pride and Glory (2008)
• Viva Las Vegas (1964)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• Filth (2013)
• Bottle Shock (2008)
• True Story (2015)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• Local Hero (1983)
• Hot Pursuit (2015)
• Life of Brian (1979)
• Moon (2009)
• She’s Funny That Way (2015)
• A Few Best Men (2011)
• The Gunman (2015)
• The Guard (2011)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Kill Me Three Times (2014)
• [review] Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
• We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
• OpenBD – for remote proxying
• 1995
• Tesla Motors: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Sparked the Next Tech Revolution
• [review] Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
• Amazon S3 overhaul for OpenBD
• Improved AmazonS3 uploads with OpenBD
• JavaScript is our new Visual Basic
• JavaOne 2014 App – the anti-pattern to mobile development
• Why, I, the anti-social-networker fell for Google+
• “From Earth to the Moon” teaches us a little software management
• How to handle yourself at a student career fair
• Who is looking at your code?
• How’s your Software Insurance Policy?
• “Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story” by Robert Bruce Lockhart
• “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die” by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• “Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation” by David Robertson
• “Sam Walton: Made In America” by Sam Walton
• “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think” by: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier
• Yahoo ‘to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn’
• NetworkSolutions – is there any real point of them?
• Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking
• 2017
• Dying Careers and their alternatives
• Tumblr Engineering: Open Source – Memcache Top