At first it was all fresh, fun, smiles all the way round as everything worked as it should and errors/mishaps were non-existent. Then the days rolled by, adventures were still exciting, problems were easily solved and it looked like a promising future. Days turned into months and then one year plus and the problems were not . . . → Read More: New Relationships
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Yes, I know that computers do not have tyres, but metaphorically speaking they all do and so do we. There is an old habit “long ago” that people would routinely “kick the tyres” of a car that they were evaluating to ascertain its road worthiness. The feeling that if it survived the kick, it was probably . . . → Read More: Kick the tyres on your computer! Some things in life are difficult and others not. Ever since the invention of the microchip (1971) we have been literally racing along exponentially with the invention and evolution of all things electronic. The correlation between how fast we can do something and how fast we can do something good is not a 1 to 1 . . . → Read More: Vuvuzela & CPU Most of the great inventions of the world have a potential for good and bad. The application, use and control is the determinant. A child growing up today is confronted with computing devices of all sorts, within their toys, games, home, school and every facet of their environment. It is so commonplace, that the terms have . . . → Read More: Innocuous Computing Life is about planning for the unknown, and our ability to handle it. Very coincidental that the two letters “IT” mean so much in so many varied situations. Maybe more than a coincidence that “Information Technology” is really “IT” which comes together in varied words from shIT to fIT etc.. What is very evident, is that . . . → Read More: ShIT happens… Where to start? It is so true that as human beings emotions do rule, and true emotion has no words. Images and associations achieve to conjure and communicate where words fail, and that is why life and its experiences are so valuable. There are so many emotions that punctuate a new day, a new dawn. That . . . → Read More: Pregnant with possibilities. The title of this blog is “trini speak” for a “tip of the iceberg.” In it, I will give a brief outline on my thoughts on what will constitute an ICT Policy as regards to Trinidad & Tobago; indeed it may well apply to any country under 5 million in population as certain issues of scalability . . . → Read More: The crust of the hops. There is a common saying that there will always be more questions than answers. At some point should be stop asking questions so that the answers can catch up? We are creatures of habit, and habits get more embedded the longer we nurture them and get comfy with them. Comfort is a nice place and in . . . → Read More: More answers…. For some time now I have been sensing a growing anxiety in the population in regard to personal safety, and rightly so. In my own case I have been the victim of robbery at knife point at high noon on a busy street and several incidents of theft and home invasions have occurred on my street. . . . → Read More: Bogeyman Reflections of Fidel
THERE is no alternative but to call things by their name. Anyone with minimal commonsense can observe without much effort how little realism remains in the current world. When United States President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Michael Moore stated “Now please earn it!” That witty comment pleased . . . → Read More: The insanities of our era Most of our distributed management/governance structure is based on a premise that in order to deal with the masses we have to have several intermediaries serving diverse groups that would coalesce into a larger group that would eventually feed the head at the summit of the pyramid. This type of broad based attempt to harness opinion . . . → Read More: A time not so long ago….. There are words in any language that we are aware of but pay very little attention to; and in the current Election climate I have become acutely aware of the numerous distractions that are employed in order to serve to steer our gaze away from troubling areas. Wikipedia uses the following definition of the word: “Distraction is . . . → Read More: Distraction How far we’ve fallen from a land of grace, How did we get to this over holy place? A history filled legacy, From what point, faith, destiny? The place we came from, so far, The stage we’re at now, Below par! There are so many lands we built up, Over many years, But now our own, we’ve come to tears For some it all . . . → Read More: Iere Slide It is amazing how quickly reality shifts in the ICT world (maybe the rest as well?), but we now have a very real marginalisation of some very big players in the technology field because of tons of individuals coming up with very innovative applications. There are now more computing devices than we ever thought possible, from . . . → Read More: Partly Open Sauce Like it or not, we are driven by chemicals in our bodies and brains. Some occur naturally and some are artificial. The “triggers” may be somethings that we see, hear, eat, drink, inhale, inject, touch or even intangible thinks like thoughts, beliefs, imagination etc.. It really does not matter, the results are the same; our body . . . → Read More: We are all addicts! In an environment where a developing country hardly produces (manufactures) anything, the local population is forced to consume imported goods. These imported goods attract several costs that accrue along the way, until the final price paid is a gross exaggeration of the real cost. Let’s look at the cost multipliers; freight, insurance and other shipping costs, . . . → Read More: Globalisation Costs Reflections of Fidel AS the Revolution celebrated its 51st anniversary two days ago, memories of that January 1st of 1959 came to mind. The outlandish idea that, after half a century — which flew by — we would remember it as if it were yesterday, never occurred to any of us. During the meeting at the Oriente sugar . . . → Read More: The world half a century later Sitting here in paradise with a cool Christmas breeze wafting through my hair and swirling all around me, I am reminded that life can be wonderful. The “trials and tribulations” that we all endure, the many negative things, all work out eventually and turn into the proverbial butterfly. That is just how life is, for anything . . . → Read More: The Bright Side There is a very simple strategy that we can now use to keep valuable files safe and portable. Get a large flash drive (like the 16GB Lexar ones that we have for TT$260) and download TrueCrypt Portable (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=truecrypt-portable) and install on the flash drive. You then setup a secure container/s and mount them as whatever drive letter . . . → Read More: Flash Drive Backups Parents generally find it very challenging dealing with their childrens’ schoolwork/homework needs. After all, it has been quite some time since we did those subjects and there have also been numerous changes. This is normally addressed with significant effort on our part and also the enlistment of tutors and various other tools, including computer use. The . . . → Read More: ParentTechGap |
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