Having spent a fair portion of my life in and around Bristol, I still have a great fondness for the city.
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Category Archives: Interesting Things On The ‘Net
The Summer Solstice
It’s that time of the year again, the longest day of the year brings the spiritual event of ‘The Summer Solstice’.
Growing up in Wiltshire this event has always had a local relevance, what with the hallowed turf of Stonehenge being an international Mecca for this yearly event.
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Someone’s watching you …
If you ever get that feeling that someone is watching you, you could probably be correct.
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… Leaving, on a jet plane …
How London Was Redesigned To Survive Wartime Blackouts
This is a fasinating article about the lengths needed to compensate for turning the lights off in London during the war
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Have you tried turning it off and on ?
Some could say that this is the centre of my life (yes this has been my daily working life for most of the last 15 years)
Why IT failures at big companies are unlikely to go away
Computer system failures are depressingly common
Business deals that have to be aborted, staff who don’t receive their wages, invoices that don’t get paid on time – companies can face potentially catastrophic disruption when their banks suffer computer system failures.
Yet these interruptions are far from uncommon – institutions like NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and many others have all run into problems that have left their customers in the lurch, and their IT staff scrambling to find and fix the issue.
Citizen Journalism
With the spread of citizen journalism, I like how daily events – or more commonly referred to as Breaking News, can be covered by the likes of ‘Jo Soap’ on the streets with the use of things like Twitter, Audioboo etc.
Citizen Journalism
I’m a fan of technology and participate in most of the social networks. This clip from ‘TruthLoader’ on YouTube, analyses how Social Networking played out the developing events when a helicopter crashed into a crane which was being used to build a new towerblock in Vauxhall, South London.
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Never Under Estimate Mother Nature
Enjoying a few days off work, I’ve been in the fortunate position today, to be able to keep up with events happening on the East Coast of the USA, where Hurricane Sandy has been due to hit land, encompassing a fairly large area of densely populated land.
For those viewing this post around the time of posting, I’ve been watching the live coverage via The Weather Channel courtesy of YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXMU2qwCVag
(Archive of live coverage now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XoEypA0Iko)
It’s been amazing to watch how Mother Nature has twisted and turned and unleashed such powerful weather, on what is basically a collection of cities at her mercy.
I’m sure theyre will be some amazing pictures to look through in the next couple of days
