Author Archives: admad43

Mother Nature really is a capricious and vindictive evil bitch, always lashing out at people’s vulnerabilities. For example, a very good friend of mine was a professional photographer until he was stricken with Parkinson’s disease. Now he can’t even hold a camera, let alone take a shake-free photograph. Beethoven, one of history’s very finest composersContinue reading “Mother-fu##ing Nature”

Give a cat a fish, it will eat for a day. Teach a cat to fish, you’ll have an ecological crisis and mass-extinction event.

Words have impact. Like “crash”, and “collision”. I saw the word “algorithm” in a social media post, and my brain immediately showed me

If you can keep your head when all about you       Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t giveContinue reading “If”

2nd October 2021, day 557 of “three weeks to flatten the curve….”

I was reading a LinkedIn post (which I can’t now find) where people were discussing their first experience with computers. Mine goes back to 1973 and my secondary school, where I joined the “Babbage Society”. That was 48 years ago. Sir Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is seen as the father of computing, having developed his mechanicalContinue reading “A personal history of computers”

I was asked “What’s a good lesson you learned from a bad manager?” Lesson learned – You don’t have to be a total and utter arsehole to manage your team effectively. In fact people perform best if you:1. don’t micromanage;2. don’t move project goalposts mid-project, then deny the posts have been moved;3. act with someContinue reading “Lessons learned”

I am truly blessed. I have a brimmed tank of unleaded. What fuel crisis? Toodle-pip Wales. Terminator-like, I’ll be bach (boyo).

Types of LinkedIn users who irritate me:1. Those who consider LinkedIn is just “free advertising” to a captive audience2. Those who think LinkedIn is just another kind of Facebook and post cute cat pictures anyway3. Those who are utterly shameless at self-aggrandisement and self-promotion4. Those who are determined to be seen by their boss toContinue reading “LinkedIn”

I have decided that i want to earn money and persuade people from my computer, so from now on I shall be a Facebook Virus, I believe it is called. Well, some kind of social influenza anyway (BOOM BOOM).