So after five and a bit years of being an IT Manager here is some advice I have learned along the way in no particular order. On the whole I have enjoyed myself but it has been a real challenge at times. 1. Figure out what plates are still spinning Being an IT Manager is all about keeping everything running all of the...
I have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book . I think this is probably the first time I have bought myself a top of the range laptop and after a few days of use I am loving it. The Surface Book is the latest in Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets but the first to...
To explore Strange New Worlds, well today the NASA spacecraft New Horizons has been doing just that. This is the most detailed photograph yet of the furthest planet we have ever explored, Pluto. New Horizons was launched on 19th January 2006. It has been travelling for 3463 days (9.5 years). In 2006 we were still using...
n the film Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan Spock sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise from destruction. What follows is a very moving funeral scene and his coffin is launched into space. McCoy tells Kirk that he is not dead as long as we remember him. Yesterday the actor Leonard Nimoy passed away and millions of...