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  • Too Much Reliance on SatNav and online maps?

    Knock on the door with a a person with a delivery said “Took ages to find your house, is your postcode correct?”. Not quite what I expected to hear. Having lived in the house for a number years and the post office delivering to my house with the same postcode I have had since moving…

  • Map Camp 2020

    Recently I attended Map Camp for my first time, which this year was being run online due to the pandemic. Around 1600 participants had signed up to Map Camp due to it being online. If you are not familiar with Map Camp, its an event (series of events) and workshops/talks around mapping techniques that are…

  • Thinking of Blogging?

    Blogging is not always a natural thing for people to do. “To Blog or Not to Blog!” that is the question you need to ask yourself. Should you pick up the mantle and start to write?

  • Proving it – “If it’s obvious prove it. If you can’t prove it, it’s not obvious.”

    I first wrote about this phrase back in December 2014 – “If it’s obvious prove it. If you can’t prove it, it’s not obvious“, which is one of the phrase tools I use when writing things down for others and I have been using this alot with others to help them with writing documentation and…

  • STEM – Hypothetical Big Questions – Robots

    Back in June I wrote some hypothetical questions for an online STEM event. These are meant to provoke discussion. Setting the Scene In todays world there are lots of advancements in the technologies in areas such as 3D Printing, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence helping to solve problems. Examples are the use of robots to build…

  • Technology Couch Podcast – Episode 7

    In this episode I chat to Aman Kohli about “Remote Learning and Lockdown”

  • Avatars – My Digital Selfie

    The ability to create avatars has been around for sometime, but more recently more platforms have provided this ability to create them. Facebook being one of the latest to introduce a create an avatar based on some standard forms that you can then modify to your nearest look. This has caused a recent splurge of…

  • Everyone needs good Cyber Security knowledge

    “Everyone needs strong good Security knowledge”. With the increase of connected devices that are entering our lives and the number of vulnerabilities being found in technologies that are becoming common place in our homes, people will need to be more savvy around Cyber Security and know what is going on with our devices and information. Recent…

  • Your Digital Exhaust – The data we share

    Everyone who uses a computer or mobile creates their own digital exhaust in the form of data that we leave behind and spew out of our devices – from location data to social media posts and videos. Other things we own such as cars and houses are also generating data from SatNavs to Smart Meters.…

  • Covid-19 and the World of the Digitally Disadvantaged

    Adjusting to life at the moment can be hard, for many they can turn to the internet, face time, news, online entertainment, statistics etc. A world outside at our fingertips. For some however this isnt an option as they dont have the technology or means to buy it. Bridging the gap to the Digitally Disadvantaged…