I wait agog for the news this morning at 9:30 that the Great Recession is over. I feel uneasy. It's the sort of uneasiness that I felt when I was five years old and saw a life size Dalek roving around the Oxted fête. At that tender age, I cried. I expect the Prime Minister will make a speech thi... Read more...

Why do different proximity readers sometimes read different token numbers from the same tokens? This can be a real problem when using the same tokens to operate different systems. Effectively, the tokens have to be added twice. Also, importing a user dat... Read more...

A nine month old South African pigeon called Winston was recently tasked with carrying a message. His employer, an IT company, chose him to carry four gigabytes of data in a USB stick tied to his back from their offices to Durban, a journey of 80km. The idea behind the stunt was to demonstrate that... Read more...

I think many of my work colleagues think I'm a neat freak. My brother Mark, who also works at Paxton Access, knows differently. As a child, I was fascinated by anything electronic, and my enthusiasm was such that I collected absolutely anything that had wires sticking out of it. It was all stored... Read more...

You know that the country is in deep trouble when the phrase "green shoots" is being bandied about. It's one of those contraindications whose face value is opposite to its significance,like when the maximum number of people are investing all their savings in the stock market, it's time to get out.... Read more...