Sitting at home the other night watching the Football and Tennis on TV, the smallest sheep asked for a cup of tea (side note – she is old enough and capable enough to make her own), to which I replied “in the words of the song, you can’t always get what you want”. In reply, […]
ownCloud – Store Your Data, Your Way
Most people out there are familiar with DropBox and other similar services provided by the likes of Microsoft and Google. The convenience of being able to easily synchronise data between multiple devices, with a copy stored “in the cloud” (that’s on the Internet for our older readers!). However, using a service such as this has […]
Knowledge – (Sometimes) Considered Dangerous
Working as I do in a technical capacity, one of the things that often strikes me is that there is a level of knowledge that is often more dangerous than others. This level seems to be simultaneously both too much knowledge and not enough knowledge, and usually consists of someone knowing enough about a subject […]
Random Fact: UK Bank Notes
The Bank of England prints £1,000,000 and £100,000,000 (yes, that is one million and one hundred million) pound bank notes, for it’s own use to move large sums of money around.
Correlation != Causation
I caught a snippet of an interesting article this morning, where it appears an industry expert was commenting on a recent report that shops could raise the average spend of customers by approximately £10 (or 39% if I remember the figure correctly) by improving their customer service. Without knowing the exact details of the report […]
Random Fact: California Police Pay
Number 1 in an occasional series of random information we’ve learnt from the internet: In Vallejo, California a p0lice lieutenant earns approximately £130,000 ($200,000) a year before benefits. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18295974
Computer Says No – You Can’t Start Your Car
Professor David Nutt of Imperial College, London and president of the British Neuroscience Association has proposed that every car should have an alcohol sensor fitted, preventing anyone from starting their car should the sensor decide they are over the legal limit (known as an alcohol ignition interlock). Speaking to the BBC, Professor Nutt said that […]
Drugs Cheats Can Represent Britain
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has over-ruled that the British Olympic Assocation’s policy of imposing lifetime bans on athletes who have tested positive for banned substance. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been in dispute with the BOA over whether the BOA policy extended violator’s punishments, and the CAS has now ruled in […]
CentOS 6 load balancer performance
Everyone knows that sheep like to flock together, so it should be no surprise that here at the internet sheep we have occasional requirements to use a load balancer to ensure that individual sheep servers are not overwhelmed with requests. Our usual weapon of choice to date has been CentOS 5, but we have been […]
What Is Wrong With Insurance Companies?
Insurance is a requirement of living in the modern world. Most people will personally need household insurance and/or car insurance, and owners of businesses have a whole load of additional insurance products aimed at them such as professional indemnity and liability insurance, some mandatory, some optional. Given that this produces a large, fairly captive market, […]