Snow day
My journey to the office was disrupted by snow!

This is a photograph for the company social media and day 2 of the Guardians of the Galaxy Lego advent calendar.
The photo is going to be used to promote Octagon’s Christmas competition – there are prizes…
Show us your Christmas – Octagon Technology
Today’s Lego was presents for yesterday’s Peter Quill – headphones in a Christmas box and a Walkman with a cassette tape. Here is a better photograph.
Speaking of cassette tape here is something I wrote for Octagon about data storage…
…and the post shown in the first photograph.
I was working today on my annual Geek Christmas Present blog post for Octagon – due to be published at 00:01 on December 1. No spoilers on the gifts here but this is the opening.
Company Christmas preparations Read More »
This photo is for a blog about what a business can do about power cuts, due to be published next week on the Octagon blog.
Photo for the Octagon Blog Read More »
I have written articles for both Cyberawake and Octagon today – but outside on the balcony in the good weather.
Of course the writing was helped by coffee – today iced coffee made in a Turkish style with ginger and little dark brown sugar.
And the sunset from the same balcony.
It is time for coffee.
Here are some of the blog posts I have written this week for Octagon Technology and Smart Thinking Solutions.
Smart Thinking has a weekend read project – the stories behind cyber security, privacy and technology that you do not have time to read during the week, but you can catch up with at the weekend, when you stop for coffee or beverage if your choice! Here is today’s post – a video rather than an article:
At Octagon, as we go through the year I write several “Geek present lists” – Father’s Day is next week so here is 2022’s Geek Father’s Day present suggestions:
We have been running a short series over at Smart Thinking Solutions looking at significant technology that had its origins in 1952.
Platinum Jubilee Technology Read More »