Autumn arrived and heating became relevant. We were surprised to find it was doing whatever it pleased. That's down to how heating works in our building during the season. Still, it's not pleasant to wait in the morning for everything to warm up to the right temperature. On the flip side,...
As part of a company team building event I got to try golf. I'd always been fascinated by how cleanly a player can strike the ball and wanted to know what it felt like. So a colleague and I signed up. I was hoping I wouldn't be completely hopeless.
We got excellent instructors who started t...
I got the opportunity to take course FOR578, Cyber Threat Intelligence. I'd always been curious about how to do it properly. As I discovered after completing the course and during exam preparation, it's a hugely complex area. Only then do you really realise how common cognitive bias...
During October I was supposed to be teaching cybersecurity to secondary school students as part of the "Master Digital Technologies" programme as an instructor. Due to low interest a partner had to be found to support the teaching. That partner turned out to be Huawei. At that poi...
Times move on and it was time to replace our old mower with a battery-powered one. Picking the right one turned out to be quite a challenge. The garden is fairly large — over 600 m². That means you need a big battery capacity. We also wanted self-propulsion so everyone could mow, n...
We were heading to a wedding and I discovered something unpleasant. I'd put on a lot of muscle. My arms barely fit in the sleeves, and the jacket was too small across the chest. Which is a shoutout to the Železná koule online coaching program. Time for a made-to-measure suit — of...
I was given the opportunity to present at the IS2 conference on the topic of Ransomware. It wasn't just a presentation though — it also required a paper for the conference proceedings. That was new for me; I'd never written anything like it before. It's a bit like a seminar pap...
My Garmin (Instinct Tactical) can track open-water swimming using GPS (optionally GPS+GLONASS/GALILEO). I selected open water swimming, waited for the satellite signal, and jumped in. After a good swim I got out, looked at the watch, and saw zero.
I stared in surprise and started figu...
I went to donate blood at the beginning of the month — FNUSA offers donors a free IgG antibody level check. Why not take them up on it. I said yes and was curious what the result would be. I'd had a decent reaction so I wanted to know whether that translated into an immune re...
I didn't move my appointment up even though the option was there. I had my form filled in from last time so I basically just walked in until I reached the doctor. We went over whether I'd had any reaction and he sent me on. Ironically I spent the most time waiting to get the...