Archive for the ‘computing’ Category

Just for a change today, I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word. Here goes… 1. Microsoft 2. Television 3. Documentation 4. Meeting 5. Nationality 6. Drink 7. Church 8. Supermarket 9. Pet 10. Illness 11. [...]

Have you ever had a day when you’re writing/typing and when you look at a words that you’ve written you think it’s spelt wrong, however the more you try to think how the word should actually be spelt, the more confused you become about how the words should be spelt? For me it’s never the [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of analysis on my blog hits over the last few months and have noticed that the number of daily hits on my blog has been fairly consistent, although it has increased in the last year. Having said that there have been some days when there has been a huge surge [...]

Identity thieves try to steal other people’s identities…Christ tries to steal our heart. Christ wants us to be more like like Him, but that doesn’t mean we should steal His idenity. Far from it, we will never be identical to Christ as we are human and as such we can never be perfect. However we [...]

These days we are increasingly able to do all our transactions and interactions anywhere and at whatever time of day, using computers, phones and other new gadgets. As a consequence of this we seem to be hearing about a growing number of computer frauds that are taking place. One of the types of fraud that seems most [...]

Yesterday I was at Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank for another MRI scan – over the last few years I’ve had quite of few of these so knew what to expect. No matter how many MRI scans I have or how frequently I have them, I’m still surprised by just how loud they are. I [...]

Yesterday afternoon while I was visiting my Aunt in hospital, hubby tried to go on the internet at home, only to find it was down. After being on the phone for about an hour, he was informed by BT that it was our HomeHub that was broken so we needed a new one – it [...]

Jesus The Programmer?

Posted: June 23, 2010 in computing
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This is a bit daft but it does have a great message…enjoy! Jesus and Satan have an extended argument as to who is the better computer programmer. Finally, they agree to hold a contest with God as the judge. They set themselves before their computers and begin programming. Typing furiously for several hours, they enter [...]

The Law

Posted: June 17, 2010 in computing, work
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I was sent this a few days ago, and it amused me, I hope it amuses you other computer folks too The Laws of Programming   First law – The Computer is always right. Lemma one – Programmers are occasionally right. Second law - The amount of time needed to debug a program is inversely proportional [...]

Today I attended the AIIM 2010 Roadshow in Glasgow. This was the first time I’ve attended one of these events, however having found it a useful day, I hope it won’t be my last. Now I’m sure many of you will be wondering what is AIIM? AIIM is “the global enterprise content management association. It [...]