If there was someone on the planet that didn’t know that the usual way FBI and Apple solve these things is in secret, we all know it now. Both parties involved admitted that usually when the FBI wants the contents of a phone, Apple has always played along and told nobody about it. We all… Continue reading FBI vs Apple = 6-1
Month: March 2016
Render unto the sultan what is the sultan’s
Some books speak for themselves. Hard to summarise, so here is the conclusion in it’s entirety. If you think this is interesting, you will love the book! “Render unto the sultan” by Tom Papademetriou. “Between 1453 and 1500, the office of the Patriarch of Constantinople changed hands eighteen times with an average of a one… Continue reading Render unto the sultan what is the sultan’s
When a star dies
Think you may have all overdone it with the tributes to David Bowie guys. I mean I loved the guy and his music but I found myself noticing all his kitsch horrors rather than focusing on the good stuff. And at the end of the day, he was quite secretive and very much…well…full of shit.… Continue reading When a star dies
Google is evil. But not like you imagine it is.
“Ah, yes, you’re the guy that has a thing against Google.” It wasn’t the best of introductions but I knew what he was on about. I do have “a thing” with Google. I am jealous as hell! Because a select few people in Google are literally the closest a homo sapiens has ever come to… Continue reading Google is evil. But not like you imagine it is.
When the Greeks met the Greeks and made…Greece
About 2100 b.c. a migrant, cattle-herding, pony-riding people made their way into the Mediterranean land mass that today is called Greece. They entered overland from the north, probably the Danube Basin, but their origins may have been farther northeast, for they spoke a language of the Indo-European linguistic family. Modern philologists believe that the ancestral… Continue reading When the Greeks met the Greeks and made…Greece