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I explained a couple of weeks ago the circumstances under which I temporarily live in a rented house. It’s rather smaller than the former family home, so we have some stuff stored in a warehouse nearb...
Galaxiki is a complete virtual galaxy - maintained by its occupants - who are all presumably bored office workers, students or kids who should be doing something MORE USEFUL WITH THEIR VALUABLE TIME....
Interesting to watch the increasing trend in the security industry of thinking more about insider threats. Is this because companies are feeling more on top of the external hackers and viruses, or a g...
In front-office operations, most people would probably think that speed and efficiency go together. They work with high-speed automated trading, low-latency computing and networks – maximum efficienc...
As discussed last year, the inevitable has occurred. A couple of questions ; a) can MitM attacks successfull against token based two factor authentication b) how will software based authentication u
Hedge funds and Wall Street firms are increasingly turning to meterologists to predict the impact that weather conditions willl have on stocks. But rather than using public meteorologists offices bank...
Time was when it cost a lot of money to send electronic data securely. Time was when downloading a 50 MB file from one computer to another wasn’t just a “black art” (otherwise known as “data communic...
As the low-latency race continues, it’s interesting to see how each element of the processing chain is being evaluated – almost as though it was for the first time. The Internet Protocol has become th...
Or at least a step greener.... We moved our hosting recently to Rackspace and I was intrigued to see a tick box on the order form to plant a tree to offset the carbon produced by the server. Apparentl...
I decided a few weeks ago to take the plunge into the Mac world as I need to run ProTools for some serious audio work and it just hasn't worked well on Windows. I kind of dreaded the whole setup rout...
Three years ago when people started estimating the impacts and costs of MiFID, the general tendency was to diminish any such estimates as being wildly exaggerated. One of those estimates was about the...
I was reading Chris Skinner’s blog on “How the media changes reality”, and had to pick up on the topic of bullying. Having been a short, bespectacled kid with asthma (as opposed to now being a short,...