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“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part Two

25th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Claudio Grass (CG): A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications. What is your take on [more…]

Business

“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part One

18th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Those who know me and who have read my writings before will be very well aware of how important the topic of decentralization is to me and to my way of looking at the world, [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (iii)

16th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-July 2010. I was sitting outside our tent on the Municipal Campsite at Bléré, in the Indre et Loire département of central France doing a crossword and [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (i)

25th April 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In common with many boys who like me were fortunate enough to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s, I spent much of my spare time building and flying Keil Kraft balsawood & tissue [more…]

Computing

Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Three

7th April 2022 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]

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Imperial Measures

17th March 2022 Going Postal 0

I am one of those fortunate people who understand both metric and imperial measurements. I am old enough to have had my early education purely in imperial but as an apprentice my college courses employed [more…]

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Russia has this under control

19th February 2022 Fred Brownbill 0

The extreme left liberals of Europe and this country have placed the western world in extreme danger. Their obsession with new green deal and green power has placed Europe in a position that it may [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 4

16th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction As a child I loved playing about with magnets – I still do. They can move heavy objects – such as lifting cars at a scrap yard. They can also move light (-weight!) objects [more…]

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