Anyone reading this probably uses the web to shop for items and do research just like me. One of the most annoying things of using the web in this way is that when it comes to clicking the print button, what you think is one page of A4 from looking at the screen actually turns [...]

I’ve previously talked about the brains ability to make snap decisions, how with out conscious thought we can spot pattens and solutions in only a faction of a second when if we spend a great deal of time considering all the possibilities we might come up with nothing. (The previous posts on this subject can [...]

It’s late at night, you’ve been out for a few beers with your friends. You get home and it’s not that late that you need to be in bed so you fire up the computer to go online for a little while. You check your emails, maybe send of some to some of your contacts. [...]

In Part 1 I talked about how sometimes snap decisions can work out just as good or even better than choices that we spend a lot of time thinking about. How our subconscious mind can process a great deal of information with out input from the conscious part of our mind. This part that of [...]

I agree with a lot of what you have to say here. For me the quality of professional IT has been on the decrease for sometime now. There is too much focus on specailisation. I don’t claim to have the level of knowledge needed to be a sysadmin and for my job I don’t need [...]