steemit is a web site that lets you interact with the steem blockchain. The steemit blockchain is a system which uses virtual currency to reward users who post, comment or rate posts or comments.
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ISO 27001
On ISO 27001, much of my work now requires an understanding of this standard, the gold plated standard for IT security, well I say gold plated, more accurately reasonable endeavours. I believe that it will become an essential part of the defence to charges that one’s failed to adequately protect data. Nothing new here yet!
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wannacry and W8.1RT
After the Shadow Brokers released the NSA treasure trove, it became necessary to determine which personal windows systems required remediation. All my windows systems have been upgraded to W10 and so would seem to be clean, except the Nokia tablet, running W8.1 RT. Intelligence says it should have been patched by Windows Update, and so I wrote…
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Data Lineage
About Data Lineage ….. my notes.
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Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes.
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Password Managers
I had cause to think about remote Password Managers last week. My conclusions and notes.
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PC to SMS
There are still people who only use feature phones or even simpler. How can one use a key board to send messages via SMS. Here are my notes, Twitter, ICQ and SMS gateways at the moment. I marked this as deprecated today. The CMS states that this article was created in March 2017, but the…
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Adding an Event to a Calendar
I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.
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New Calendars in Google Calendar are not easily pushed out to the calendar app on Android. Here’s how for v6.0.1.
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Data Havens and Iceland
Some links on Iceland as a data haven, based on research conducted over the winter of 2016/2017.
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Emoji’s in WordPress
I have installed Super Emoji+. Here are some icons from the icon palette. 💬 🌶 🏦 🐱🗝
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Hitler rant from Downfall
As you know, a number of people have set alternative words to the scene in Downfall where his Generals tell him that there are no more soldiers between the Red Army and Berlin. I am particularly taken with this one which explores the funding of the UK Police and has clearly been written by someone…
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How to unpivot in Excel
The need to unpivot data is a common requirement. There are a number of reasons as to why. I and my customers are primarily using Excel on Windows and so the examples below are shown in excel and rely on excel functionality.
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Wajig
Wikipedia says, “Wajig is a simplified wrapper to Debian’s package management system dpkg/APT. Wajig provides the functionality of apt-get, dpkg, dpkg-deb, apt-cache and other tools. These tools launch as a subprocess. Wajig also provides extra functionality beyond that of the stock apt and dpkg tools.”.
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Analysing the 2015 General Election
I am fed up hearing about the PLP’s 9m votes mandate. A large number of these 9m votes will have voted for Labour candidates that lost. So I decided to calculate the number of votes cast for the PLP. So something for both political geeks and excel nerds. Here’s how I did it.
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