Why You Need To Think Very Carerfully Before Adopting A Service-Oriented Architecture Model

It's the latest craze - take whatever you can think of in IT and networking, and add "as a service" to the end of it.  Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) are the three main types, and all the other xxx-as-a-Service types and aaS abbreviations can be classified as Infrastructure-based, Platform-based or Software-based.

Gerry Cinnamon In Boscombe (Macdonalds)

Whilst waiting for my gourmet food order to be lovingly prepared, cooked and served, a fairly famous singing bloke attended Maccy D's.

Hollywank - Things The Movies Get Wrong

Some things in the movies just plain and simply piss me off because they are so wrong and just don't happen in real life.  Here are my (least?) favourite Hollywood cock-ups and second (least?) favourite in three categories: Health/Human Body, Guns/Weapons and Vehicles/Cars:

How To Create A Wormhole

In this step-by-step tutorial we walk you through the process to create your very own wormhole at home.  It should be noted that wormholes and Einstein-Rosen bridges are not fully understood and that time travel/dilation and apparent faster-than-light travel is potentially dangerous and care should be taken whenever dealing with gravity wells and point singularities.  Black holes can and do kill.

Programmers Are F%$!ing Lazy

It's true.  As Moore's Law still holds true after 50 years and processors double in speed every two years, hard drive density also loosely follows this trend with storage capacities generally also doubling every two years, programmers have just gotten plain lazy.

Grow Your Sysadmin-Fu

There are a few commands that the Linux sysadmin simply can't live without.  The need to see exactly what is going on with your army of *nixs and what any one is doing at any particular time is a must.  Here are a few commands that I would seriously miss, and ones that I make sure are installed on every box I administer.  So, in no particular order....

US Army, US Navy. US Air Force, US Marines, NASA, Google

Google - Rise Of The Cyberspies

Google's parent company is called Alphabet.  Whether this is just a coincidence or whether it has meaning I don't know, but you have to wonder what is Aphabet?  Could it be just 3 of the 26 available letters? NSA for example? Or CIA? DoD?