Reluctant technologist. CAD & Technical Lead/nerd at London Ambulance Service. Tech stuff, NHS/999 stuff, occasional Excel witchcraft. Views, regrettably, my own.

I don't want to stream the Olympics

Remember when everything didn't have to be done over IP?

Power over Ethernet for the smart home

Turns out there's a pretty easy solution to having to power a million different hubs that all have USB connections

CrowdStricken

The CrowdStrike failure says a lot more about everyone's business continuity planning than it does about poorly designed endpoint management software

Electromagnetic Field 2024

I spent a weekend in a wonderfully weird internet-connected field in Herefordshire, and felt the most relaxed I have in a while

You STILL can't get a new number and keep your old one?!

We are altogether too reliant on phone numbers not changing, which sucks when you want to change them