Reluctant technologist. CAD & Technical Lead/nerd at London Ambulance Service. Tech stuff, NHS/999 stuff, occasional Excel witchcraft. Views, regrettably, my own.
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
Smart home user interfaces
Smart homes suck if you can't control your lights with the damn light switch