Month: June 2018
This is a coup! How does Europe get the right to tell the internet what to do?
As the world watches him flip flop over major topics like migrant families and trade war threats, I have to grant Donald Trump a point. Take all the nasty stuff…
GDPR is so stupid it is scary
I can picture the scene. Some EU bureaucrat, on his low tech EU email client, had to go through the EU complicated way of reporting yet another viagra spam email. …
My prime minister and your president are a similar type of idiot-genius marketers
When Donald Trump became president I did a blog post about his similarities with the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras. I was of course mainly impressed with their marketing capabilities. …
Facebook killed 14 people in May
That is what the headlines ought to be. Not “A Facebook bug changed suggested sharing settings to ‘public’ for up to 14 million users“. Think about it. Assuming Facebook is telling…
The Cryptocurrency backstory is all wrong
If you ask Google how many UK pounds you get for 100 US dollars you will get the result immediately. Ask it to convert 10 0xBitcoin to FlorinCoin and you get…
Open Letter to NBA commisioner
You just lost a die hard NBA fan. I have written about it, I have blogged about it, heck I even did a podcast about it. “Why the NBA is…