Beyond the pane, the elements groan
The wind emits a climatic moan
Beside me here, my son does sleep
Oblivious to the darkness' creep

I glance at him now, a work of art
A joy to behold from the very start
No frown or scowl, a boy at peace
He lies so silent in his slumber's fleece

Rushing headlong, the mankind race...

Yesterday morning when I caught my bus into town there was a young lady at the bus stop. We don't always see each other but we do enough to acknowledge each other when we are both there. Today we struck up a conversation.

She asked me what I did for a living and I said design and marketing and she said that she wanted to d...

We needed to do some shopping this afternoon and headed for a big out-of-town center with a massive Tesco store. I was in there for about 10 seconds and I had people coming at me from all directions and felt totally stressed and overwhelmed.

People, people, people! I just want some space!

In that moment I decided once a...

In case you didn't know, I am the proud owner of an incomplete set of internal organs.

Four years ago this very weekend the pain that had been bugging me like an ongoing bout of intermittent but ugly indigestion finally decided that it would wait no longer for me to visit my doctor.

I went to bed the previous evening la...

While this topic covers computer networking basics I felt it would be interesting to look at the bigger picture and how the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) usually link their networks internationally with particular reference to Internet Exchange Points (IXs or IXPs)*.

An Internet exchange point is a physical infrastruct...

They say that laughter is the best medicine and a while back I tried a very silly experiment to see if the theory was true.

What I did was devise a spoof psychological profiling quiz to see how colleagues and acquaintances would respond. Apart from asking impossible questions, I requested that those taking part should prov...

A few months ago I read an article that implied that the decision as to whether the older generation could own a computer and access the Internet was being taken for them. As a business, this is a very dangerous game to be playing - have they never met my Nan?

You cannot escape hi-tech technology in the world these days w...