I’m going to miss…

Last Wednesday saw the long awaited return of the ever fantastic Oxford Geek Night. Thanks to all involved, and all who came, and especially the keynote and microslot speakers for making it an awesome night! The first speaker was a woman called Leila Johnston who gave an interesting talk called “Making things fast”, I suggest […]

Marcus Povey

Last Wednesday saw the long awaited return of the ever fantastic Oxford Geek Night. Thanks to all involved, and all who came, and especially the keynote and microslot speakers for making it an awesome night! The first speaker was a woman called Leila Johnston who gave an interesting talk called “Making things fast”, I suggest […]

Why Wikileaks will fail

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]

Marcus Povey

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]

Tips for building web services on Amazon AWS

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

Marcus Povey

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]