If you are a regular reader of this blog (and if not why not?) then you may be feeling a little déjà vu at this point. Stop worrying, you are not having a “Ground Hog Day”, that was on February 2nd in Punxsutawney – (great movie, love Andie MacDowell) – Diana wrote an article a […]
Who knew February 8th 2021 was “Clean Out Your Computer Day”? Read More »
The Covid-induced lockdowns and restrictions have necessitated a new way of working and accelerated the already growing trend to remote and more flexible employment. With the mass roll-out of vaccines generating hope for a return to some kind of normal in the spring/summer, what are the implications for leadership as staff return to the physical
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So what does that mean? Click-bait? A riddle? Well, it could be a riddle – it is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 book The Sirens of Titan. If you look these words up in a dictionary most of the words between them are to do with time. Now where am I going with this?
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Have you read “Where’s my flying car?” part 1? If not you should. I was 10 in 1971 – decimalisation came in that year – and this was on the television: 1971: Tomorrow’s World: Cassette Navigation – YouTube (You should really take four minutes and thirty-four seconds to watch this video – speed it up if you are short of
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Contact form 7 WordPress developers updated their plugin last week to patch a security vulnerability that allowed unrestricted file uploads in all versions up to and including 5.3.1 – so we would strongly recommend that if you are using this plugin for your website’s contact form you run an update asap. Of course, if you are a
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Since this version of WordPress came out last week Wordfence, the leading WordPress security plugin, has brought out an update (7.4.14) to prevent a potential security vulnerability. WordPress 5.6 now has application password functionality which will be useful in a number of scenarios including ecommerce plugins, but hackers could gain administrator access rights through phishing
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Who watched the Jetsons? If you say yes to that question then we are of a similar age or you are a real geek. If you say “no” then google it – and that simple statement “google it” is what this blog is about – technology today. No one told me I’d have Google in
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It’s Christmas! Kamila has set us all a target of producing a blog a day as a countdown to Christmas and I get to write what must be the most fun one! Here is my seasonal selection of presents for those geeks in your life. Continuing the series of “Geek Present” blogs for Christmas, Mother’s
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There has already been a significant increase in online shopping due to the covid-19 pandemic and as we enter the Christmas period online sales are going to ramp up even further – not to mention Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Of course, bad hackers know this and will try to entice unsuspecting shoppers to
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