A tongue-in-cheek plea for one of the casualties of our technology powered society.
Forgotten and Discarded: The Heartbreaking Plight of Orphaned Passwords
September 20th, 2019 Comments Off on Forgotten and Discarded: The Heartbreaking Plight of Orphaned Passwords
Tags: Bill Gates · forgotten passwords · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet
Spectre and Meltdown – Digital Villains and Killer Computers
January 13th, 2018 Comments Off on Spectre and Meltdown – Digital Villains and Killer Computers
A tongue-in-cheek look at the latest computer viruses, Spectre and Meltdown, and the technological issues behind them.
Tags: Bill Gates · computer virus · Mark Zuckerberg · Meltdown · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Spectre · speculative computing · The Matrix
No, Microsoft. You May Not Have Your Way with My PC
April 9th, 2016 Comments Off on No, Microsoft. You May Not Have Your Way with My PC
Taking issue with Microsoft’s offer to upgrade my PC to Windows 10 if I will leave the front door opened while I sleep.
Tags: Bill Gates · Internet Explorer · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Microsoft · snowball metaphor · Windows 10