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5,025 Km, 21 Journeys, and 10 Countries in 30 Days - An Interrailing Adventure

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11 countries, 5025 Km, 21 journeys, 20 destinations. Total time on trains 2 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes.

Interrail were having a sale on their month-long first class tickets. So Liz and I decided to do a "Grand Tour" - running around and seeing a dozen European cities. There are lots of companies which will sell you a pre-designed package Interrailing tour - but we decided to tread our own path. We spent a few weeks poring over maps and rail planners, scouring booking.com for hotels, and working…

What is a "Cyber Attack"?

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Screenshot showing a journalist's incredulity at a report.

Terminology is hard. Computer terminology is even harder. Humans are animals who just love to classify things. We have a fundamental need in our delicious meaty brains to put things into conceptual buckets. This, I think, leads to some unfortunate consequences when our categories don't match up with other people's categories. For example, take this news story and this journalist's response to…

The NHS shouldn't outsource its QR codes

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Screenshot of terms and conditions with an hello email address.

QR codes are brilliant. They're a simple way to allow users to easily and quickly go to the right URl - no matter how complex. No more worrying about typing in long addresses or figuring out if that's a letter O or the number O. Scan and go! The best thing about QR codes is that they're free. It doesn't cost any money to generate one. They're an open standard with no middle-men. Users can go…

Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Season 15

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Woman holding a phone in a yellow case.

Is it Season 15 of New Who? Series 2 of Ncuti Gatwa's Who? Series 1875 of the UNIT dating controversy? Either way, welcome back to this increasingly silly series of blog posts where I try to identify all the mobile phones used by The Doctor and their companions. This weird and wonderful series has, sadly, a paucity of phones. The only time they appear is in the phonetastic and bone-chilling…