Tony is a Geek

If it's a clear night outside and you have the opportunity, it's always a nice thing to take time to look up at the stars above and put things into perspective. Last night, Venus was shining away super bright over to the west.  Quite a few normal satellites criss-crossing overhead - I must live on the M4/M25 crossroads as there are quite a lot going over my house! and then, just for a treat, there are these little beauties who zoom overhead making a great scene: https://findstarlink.com/ If someone hasn't heard of them, or even know about them - that's quite a lot of people, to be fair, then it's a great wind up (in the current climate), that the Aliens are driving in single file and making their way over to London, oh look.... there they go....  :-D You can select to see where they are in real-time, or see the Visible Times and you can plan when to go out into the garden.   have fun! UPDATE: Found a great website that shows you all satellites in 3D...

Those people that have known me for quite some time, know that I don't just do work-work.  I used to.  Oh, yes....I used to do that a lot.  I'm probably from the generation of IT guys that screwed it all up for the newer generation.  Why's that? Well, IT was fascinating in the late 80s and all the way through the 90s....the possibilities, the basic-ness of it all.  Yes, you as a single person "could" do it all.  you could be the person that knew about hardware, knew about infrastructure, could make your own 10-base-2 (or was it 10?) cables (the one's that used TV aerial cable), before cat5 cables took over - but hey, you still did that too.  You knew how to network PCs together, different network cards, token networks connecting to the 10-base-2/10/T (whatever), how to configure Windows or even Novell Netware (wow, there's a blast from the past for you) to use that networking....and you even knew how to write code, so you could write the application...

....and other grouchy grumblings from an old IT guy :-D Okay, first I'll say, I've been knocking around with IT since the early days, yes, yes, yes, that means I'm biased, IT racist (if you will) and very set in my ways about how things should and should not work with IT..... in fact, I'm not.  I'm actually quite the opposite.  I'm very flexible and open-minded.  That's how I've managed to stay relevant over the past 25+ years.  I've evolved with IT......where it makes sense. I've been cautious when I needed to, I've thrown caution to the wind on the odd occasion and just went with the flow to see where we'd end up. However.  All this new nonsense about A.I (Artificial Intelligence) and the term "Data Scientist" as a job role just rubs salt into a paper cut for me. 1st you are not a scientist.  yes, okay, you probably were very good as maths (correct spelling) and statistics at school, did that weird class you could d...