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Writing books about the General Post Office – 1
I’m not sure that folks today even know what the GPO, or General Post Office was, or even if they really wish to find out? People today mostly want a service to work well for them without the worry of how or why it does, what it does! The GPO once operated both the postal…
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Thoughts of the Day
Windows 10 just surprised me by asking if it was convenient to run the ‘Tuesday (?) Update’ now or later? ! I told it to go away, for now. Movie quote of the day: Coke please, regular, not that diet shit.
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London Calling
London the very hub of it all, where… Telephonists once were awaiting your call. Bankside long-ago; the cathedral of power Tate Modern art today has a new tower. Millennium Bridge spanning anew Faraday Building still, an imposing view. The Thames gently flowing, down to Mondial Sadly though, that’s not been there for a while. Keybridge…
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Contactless!
It seems ages ago, and it was (2009), since the memorable Barclays’ “waterchute” ad of the man jumping onto the slide and eventually passing through the supermarket where he grabs a bunch of bananas and at the same time waves his debit card at the reader to make the payment, while still in motion on…
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Big Data
‘Big Data’ and algorithms is where it’s at. If you ( a corporate entity) collect a big enough sample (e.g. from Facebook) you can fairly accurately predict people’s likes and dislikes and possibly understand them, better than they consciously know themselves. Patterns can be seen in very large samples, which is how systems can have…
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Concepts
Usually, if you want to understand how a product works, it is better NOT to go to the orginator’s website, because they are too close to the concept, and assume that everyone already ‘gets it’ or understands its use and function. They want to ‘sell’ you the higher functionalities, when you as a complete novice…
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Light Straw Ignites or simmers gently!
This is a test page of WordPress authoring first created on Friday 8th September 2017 AD. It’s not too serious at the moment. WordPress is a WYSIWYG way of quickly managing and organising my thoughts into notes, as well as planning resources for my books!