Tallest of Smalls – Book review

Pick Me!  Pick Me!  Little Ollie was certain that he really didn’t matter.  After all, he was the smallest of Too Smalls.  And like all the Too Smalls of Stiltsville, he desperately wanted...
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Spying on Staff 2 – Benefits

So in part one of this mini-epic I responded to a comment author on another blog. In it, I addressed the, as I see it, flawed thinking in their approach to the use of filtering software or appliances. In...
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Spying On Staff

John over at Church IT has put up a short post about “Monitoring Your Church Staff’s Internet Usage“. Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that I’m a wee bit passionate...
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Technical Certifications

I’ve long been an advocate of people not needing ‘formal qualifications’ to get into the computer industry. And by formal I mean university degrees or 48 GCSE’s (or whatever your...
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Skribit

Those of you that have been reading this blog awhile may have noticed that my suggestions tab disappeared. Two main reasons – it never saw any action and I forgot to re-apply the code when I changed...
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13 Life Lessons

What has life taught you? I find at the very young age of 46 that I’m not as young as I once was but I’m not referring to physical age here but rather the fact that me being the age I am has...
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