I have regularly written geek present lists for Christmas and Father’s Day, but I have been amiss when it comes to Mother’s Day – the last one was back in 2019: Embed A Geek Mother’s Day – Ten presents for the Geek in your Mum – Octagon Technology That is going to be fixed now […]
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“J.A.R.V.I.S., make a note. Remind me not to wake up in the morning ever again.” If you feel like that when you start to think about Christmas shopping, then this is the blog post for you. Back for its regular Christmas slot is my list of presents for those geeks in your life, who when
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Prepare for the fall The school holidays are almost over and so is summer. With back to school, yellowing leaves, and soon pumpkin spice latte and warmer socks, autumn is coming in tiny steps. I love this time of the year! It’s also a good time to reflect on your marketing strategy and “lean” into
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Apple has announce that after 21 years of production, the iPod line will be discontinued. I have loved the iPods I have had – and luckily I got my my latest iPod Touch just a few weeks ago. Apple to discontinue the iPod after 21 years – BBC News ‘The spirit lives on’: Apple to
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So it is coming round to the Christmas holiday season so that means I get another opportunity to bring you my Geek’s Christmas Present List. If you have a geek in your life these suggestions hopefully will give you some ideas what to get them for their stockings… If you are a geek then forward
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Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people
With rapid technological evolution and the globalisation of business, long before the COVID pandemic happened, we are living in an age of continuous change. Long ago Heraclitus said his famous words: “change is the only constant” and it comes with a choice to either accept it or resist it and stay behind. Is this right? Change may not be easy, but experts say that the pace of change won’t slow
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Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed
I am not supposed to be blogging for Octagon this month – I have two ebooks to write one for Octagon on the cybersecurity bases you have to cover and one for Smart Thinking covering a ransomware plan – but as I am writing this over breakfast on Sunday neither Diana or Kamila can complain.
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