I've just automated call purporting to be from my credit card provider to confirm some recent activity on my card. The concept is a laudable one but not having foreknowledgeof the system I treated it like any other phone call. I certainly don't give personal/security information over the …

It took a while to get my parents fully signed up to the digital lifestyle. Of course now they habitually carry their mobile phones the next stage is complete. It's a shame the picture of them enjoying the sunshine outside a pub in York just makes me want to leave …

I've been doing some prototyping recently in Python as an experiment. The idea being I can mock up a simple app with GUI with minimal effort and of course learning new languages is fun. A big driver is that it's not perl. An awful lot of perl is implicit based …

I haven't commented much on the US election recently. It after all the democratic process in a sovereign country which is quite capable of making it's own decisions about who represents it. Of course given the USA's influence on the rest of the world it's understandable that we do take …

I've been spending quite a lot of idle cycles on Facebook with the rather fun Nations game. My nation now scores very highly in social freedom, education, technology and pretty much every other meaningful statistic. This is not surprising as I've consistently gone with pro-education, pro-choice decisions and a marked …