Working in the field that I do I have to present and receive lots of presentations. A few months ago I started to get really frustrated with the poor quality of people’s presentations. Sometimes, this was their speaking, sometimes it was their slides or materials. I decided that I wanted to change the way that I approached the whole issue of presenting. Therefore, I have spent the last few months… Read More »What makes a good presentation
I find it really interesting to look at access control of web-based applications to see how they have changed over the past decade. When I first started working with Identity and Access management back in 1998/1999, web applications were still emerging and there functionality was limited. At that time people were building silo’d applications containing all of the security within each application. Then along came the web access management (WAM)… Read More »Authorisation comes full circle
I just signed up to a site i’ve just come across for swapping things in the UK. Might be useful for my used PS3 games. Check it out……. SWAPSHOP.co.uk
At least the European Court of Human Rights respects people’s DNA and doesn’t think the UK Government should keep it for no reason….
In the current global economic crisis, it is really prudent to spend £9.2bn on the 2012 London Olympics. I’m sure the money could be put to better use…..
I’ve decided to start posting videos to YouTube. Therefore, if you want a laugh at my poor attempt at Beethoven, please see here.
I have this theory which seems to bear out no matter where I travel to in the UK….. When I was a child I used to throw pennies into wishing wells and make a wish. As I grew up I noticed the security protecting the coins getting stronger (however, I digress). What I have noticed now for a number of years is that any expanse of water contained in a… Read More »Is ALL water a wishing well?
It still amazes me that so many of my friends are displaying their date of birth on their public facebook profile. Don’t they realise how useful this is to potential Identity thief?
Well its finally happened to me. After been very careful with my credit card details over the years, last week I finally fell victim to Identity Fraud. Yes, whilst checking my credit card transactions online, I noticed a airline ticket that I certainly didn’t buy. A call to my credit card company revealed two further airline transactions that had not yet been posted onto my statement. Within one day, 3… Read More »Identity Fraud has finally happened to me
Where have all the original iPods gone? I have an 4GB iPod Mini. Its not that old and it serves my purpose. However, I seem to be the only person on the planet that has a pre-video iPod. What has happened to all of the people who bought older iPods. Do they just throw them away and buy new ones or is there some sort of iPod graveyard that they… Read More »iPod Graveyard