Nick Brown's blog

Apparently, Scandinavia is big in the UK right now.  (Something "foreign" is always big in the UK, it seems.)  And when somethi...

For the first time in my life, I missed a plane this week. But it was a chance for a little moment of growth. I was booked on the 15:40 bus...

I’m tall. 1.93 metres or 6 feet 4 inches, although being very very old, I've probably started to shrink a bit. Anyway, when I fly, I l...

Part of my job involves maintaining a Web application which I wrote almost entirely from scratch. I designed the database, wrote pretty muc...

I learned a new word today: Podslurping . I've been having fun with StatCounter seeing how many people have been hitting this blog sinc...

This rather unfortunately-titled virus - ask anyone who speaks both French and German ;-) - seems to be "flavour of the month" at ...

Very early in the history of interactive logon with passwords, the big brains noticed that if someone was looking over your shoulder, they m...