Four fours is a maths puzzle to find the simplest mathematical expression for every integer from 0 onwards. The rules are simple; You can only use the operators; +, -, x, (brackets) , x² square and ! factorial You can only use the number four Each expression must have four fours Anyway, having some spare [...]
You can’t seem to pass a day without either the media, a politician or someone-other commenting and looking for a scapegoat to blame the bad things that happen in this world; more often than not it’s towards the internet and ISP’s such as BT, Sky and TalkTalk or Google, Bing, Facebook and other large internet [...]
The media in Turkey is showing a somewhat large amount of caution in relation to reporting the current protests going on in Turkey – which were started by the excessive use of force from the Turkish police whilst trying to move activists who were protesting over the re-development plans for Gezi Park. On Monday night, [...]
Yesterday the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, gave a speech titled “The EU, safeguarding the open internet for all” setting out her vision for net-neutrality. In her speech she stated; “Openness and liberty are values I am determined to defend everywhere… The Arab Spring showed us the power [...]
Google trends is a pretty cool tool to see what people are searching for around the world, but they now have a pretty cool visualisation that can be set by regions. You can see it in action here. It’s pretty awesome, and looks great as a screen saver! You can do this by; Mac; 1) [...]
Not that I am applying any mathematical theory to this, but with stories like this; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137807/Obsessed-internet-child-porn-addict-amassed-250-000-images-12-years-age-15.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380257/Is-YOUR-child-watching-porn-The-effects-graphic-sex-images-young-minds.html Appearing next to pictures of half clad women and constant stories about woman and sex on the Daily Mail website, I thought it would be interesting to see if there was any correlation between Google search trends [...]
Although I’m a fan of private companies providing services to the NHS, caution must be made to ensure robust rules and frameworks are in place. One thing that has alarmed me recently is the omission of subjecting private providers to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, in-fact the current legislation allows private providers to reject any [...]
Yesterday I was in a meeting discussing DNS and showed a colleague the “dig” – domain information groper – command. It’s a fantastic little tool for querying DNS name servers. For standard use all you need to do is open a terminal and type $dig example.com This will respond with; ; < <>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 [...]
Fantastic news from the High Court today. Apple lost its appeal in the UK high court today to overturn the outcome of a previous court case in which it was ruled Samsung did not copy apple. The good news is that Apple will now have to run adverts in the British press saying [...]
So, back in July I went to Sierra Leone for Project Umubano – The Conservative Party’s social action project. It was great fun, and at some point i’ll get round to writing up about it but in the meantime here is a video;