Oct 166 min readWelcome to the Rage Machine!One of my all-time favourite songs is Welcome to the Machine , by Pink Floyd. While the song appeared on the 1975 album Wish You Were...
Oct 95 min readRasputinIt’s been more than two years since I last posted, so I’m trying to remember which buttons to press to make this happen. Life has a...
Jun 12, 20223 min readKilling in the Name!Who’d have thought that music could be political? Or that musicians might have political views? Let’s take the song Killing in the Name...
Apr 10, 20223 min readThe Name is the Thing!Some films age well. An example is the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was fairly successful when it was originally released...
Apr 3, 20224 min readThe Wall!#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...
Mar 27, 20224 min readAll in this Together!When I write, I sometimes have a topic in mind, and look for an interesting way to introduce it. This time, I ended up going down an...
Feb 6, 20226 min readLingua Franca!Recently, I was listening to an old episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, (actually, episode 803, dated 28-Nov-2020), in which...
Jan 9, 20224 min readI think I want a new keyboard!While thinking about a topic for this post, I listened to a podcast I had not previously included in my online playlist...
Jan 2, 20224 min readThe Internet is on fire!I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton...
Nov 28, 20213 min readSongs in the Key of Life!Stevie Wonder is one of those truly great artists whose music permeates our culture. I had never actually listened to the album “Songs...
Oct 24, 20214 min readA Kind of Magic!The film Highlander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_(film)) was enormously popular when it came out, as were several of the...
Oct 11, 20213 min readKeys!In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets), there is a scene...
Oct 3, 20213 min readDon't Panic!One of the key catch-phrases of the classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to...
Sep 26, 20215 min readSound and Fury!The phrase “full of sound sound and fury, signifying nothing” is part of one of the most famous soliloquies in the English language. It...
Sep 19, 20216 min readRisk!Risk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28game%29) is one of those games that seems to endure. It’s a simple game, which is probably...
May 30, 20213 min readDirect Objects!I have been spending most of my (relatively) free time working on PHP (https://www.til-technology.com/post/it-s-been-a-long-time), and...
May 2, 20215 min readInfoSec Basics - Pen Test!Pen test? That’s when you try to identify who’s who in this photo of the famous magicians Penn & Teller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Apr 18, 20215 min readNot a Hacker!#TIL that Kali Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux) was not named after the Hindu goddess Kali. This was actually a great...
Jan 31, 20215 min readKanban POCIt’s nice to look back and be satisfied with a decision you made. Decision-making is part of our lives, from literal life-and-death...
Dec 27, 20204 min readThis pi tastes funny!Most “technology people”, whatever they do, seem to be the de facto technology support for everyone they know. In my own case, back in...