Day: 17 April 2018

I am passionately anti-Brexit and still have some hope the bad decision can be reversed.

It’s good to see people like Sir Patrick positing that fictional characters, as much as he himself, would be anti-Brexit and want to change this outcome.

I am an advocate for positive change, but Brexit never struck me as positive. regardless of which stance you have, “taking back control”, “anti Europe”, “anti immigration” or something else, to me they are all taking a negative stance against something which actually is a positive.

Harmonised regulations mean, in general, that we find travel between countries is easier. Mobile phone roaming changes were instigated by the EU. Immigration has always resulted in a stronger Britain, I mean, think about dogs. Which is stronger? A mongrel or a purebred? Mongrels win every time. Mixing the genes – whether the real gene pool or that of society – results in a stronger outcome.

I applaud Sir Patrick and will keep pushing to say remove this change that only benefits those who own businesses and want to remove the EU controls that make them behave as they should.

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-patrick-stewart-my-star-trek-and-x-men-characters-would-be-anti-brexit-11332439

Privacy is important for all, regardless of who you are and what you’ve done, we are all due some degree of privacy. The degree will of course primarily lie on how much celebrity you have – not just the positive sort as we get from film, TV or other people in the entertainment industry, but also those who gain notoriety for other things.

But at some point that notoriety should and does fade, unless you work hard to stay in the spotlight. If the spotlight has moved on, then you should equally have the online search history fade over time.

This is what was argued for in this case and the defendant won. Which is good. I know some will say (s)he did wrong and should ever remain tainted. What if you had something happen to you, deliberately or otherwise? Would you want that taint to remain on your forever? I doubt it.

That’s why this is important and is part of what will shape how we all are affected by privacy decisions now, and in the future.

This is a good decision.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43752344

Thankfully I work at a company where a lot of listening happens. IBM often  has “jams” where feedback is requested from the teams, open and honest, and sometimes reinforced by being able to be anonymous.

This strengthens us as the weird, wacky, sensible and positive ideas that often prove to be the winning move in a company’s long term survival, come from such beginnings.

I’ve played games for many, many years, been a developer (albeit for only 18 months as I found it wasn’t for me), been in retail, support and training, all of which have more similarities than most might feel they would or should in respect of how to solve any problem that is in front of you.

have a read of the two blogs below – and especially think through the rubber duck debugging one, I have to say I have used that sometimes, even when writing to find the obvious thing that you’d otherwise have missed. ???

Rubber duck debugging: https://rubberduckdebugging.com/

UE4 confessions blog: https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/