Category: Musings
The World's Gone AI Mad
Crikey it's happening, one of my once in a blue moon musings! I've been watching tech long enough to have seen a few gold rushes. The PC era, the dot-com bubble, mobile, cloud... each one had its…
Read more →Overview of Technological Advancements Since 2021
Since my last article on Quiggles.net in 2021, the technological landscape has undergone significant transformations. This overview captures the major developments and trends that have emerged…
Read more →A blog review...
Clearly I don't blog as often as I perhaps should but hey is anyone reading any of this anyway? 🤷♂️😆 I thought I'd do a quick review of some of the articles and see where they stood in late 2021. So…
Read more →Standardised Manifesto
As we approach the UK General Election in May, there seems to be a growing feeling of “why should I bother to vote, as they are all the same”. So it occurs to me that a lot of our decision making is…
Read more →The Expert
A YouTube video going viral at the moment is "The Expert", and no wonder... I'm pretty sure anybody with any technical capabilities, myself included, have been "The Expert" in meetings like this...
Read more →BitCoin price
Recently have become interested in bitcoin's, and will probably write further about it in future posts. However the thought for today is "what the hell is going on with the bitcoin price?!". My…
Read more →What the Internet is doing to our brains...
As someone who works in IT and therefore spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen, I'd long realised that it's very easy to get distracted. One of the other areas that concerned me was the…
Read more →Blogging
I started blogging occasionally some years back, circa 2008 I guess; and it's been pretty on and off since then. However it's been on a couple of platforms like wordpress and blogspot etc. Over the…
Read more →Old blog refound!
Look's like I've always been keen on the idea of blogging, but as per now, not very good at doing it on a regular basis... Why do I say that - I've literally just falling across a blog that I started…
Read more →Barlow's Manifesto
Recently I came across Barlow's Manifesto which was written by John Perry Barlow. The manifesto was written as a direct criticism of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. Barlow and others saw this…
Read more →It's all for charity...
I came across a blog post this morning* that really opened my eyes about charity giving. The post is titled “ 5 things charities secretly spend your money on “. I’m naturally quite a cynical person…
Read more →Keep Calm ask Brian Cox
Sent this to the #stargazing programme, as I created it, and they said Brian Cox was up for putting it on the show tonight - whether that actually happens remains to be seen, but made me laugh!
Read more →Catharsis or Cathartic
One of the frustrating things of running a blog, is that you actually have to write stuff occasionally! I suppose nobody actually makes you do a blog, and it's questionable as to whether anybody is…
Read more →The first post!
So I guess any blog has to start with a post of some kind, and obviously this is going to be mine… There you go; my first statement of the obvious! In principle I don’t actually get blogs… Now…
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