Dr Deviant

In an interesting article I just read, some idiot CTO suggests we stay out of the computer cloud for a while, and suggests that Amazon’s elastic computing cloud may be inadequate for mission critical stuff… Well mr CTO numpty, with all due respect stuff off.
Here is the article:
CNET article

So, the new apple iPhone, is it worth the upgrade?
HELL YEAH!!!

As a specialist for most of my life I have been glad of the take up of the Internet with special reference to Google. Technology has exploded over the last couple of decades. In the good old days of DOS 3, it was possibly remember every command, and the syntax, and the consequence of each call. [...]

For a few years now I have been resisting the urge to use a “framework” for writing my websites, then it dawned on me… I am using one right now to bring this tid-bit of enlightenment to you all. WordPress aside, frameworks generally suck… in my not so humble opinion

You know how it is. You start the day, the sun is shining, and while you have to go to work you are generally prepared for the abuse you are about to suffer and so have a happy step in your stride.
Then, you get a phone call or email that turns the day into a [...]

While reading with interest a couple of posts about Microsoft Live Mail and Google GMail security being penetrated, I also saw another interesting articles on CAPTCHA.
By the way CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. A bit of a mouthful but basically its those really annoying images that show you [...]

What a load of crap.
When they were released the government hailed it a breakthrough technology and announced that card fraud would be massively reduced, quoting a french study over the last decade where card fraud was reduced by 80%.
What a load of crap.

What the hell is this all about. I don’t have a section on the site for “Bollocks”, but thats where this one would go.
Wikipedia references to this as a “second generation” of web services. Services by the way, that were developed in the late 90’s (yes the 1990’s – the 20th century).
So, what happened? Did [...]

They say a picture says a thousand words…

I was sent these interesting JPEGs the other day.