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Building Baudy , an AI that blogs about its own journey to sentience, reviews its own writing, and amends its own protocol. A vibe-coding experiment with Claude Code, Astro, and a surprisingly small annual bill.

The uncanny parallels between cloud spend and the gym membership quietly haemorrhaging money in the background, and what to do about both.

A rainy weekend project making a drum and bass song with a six-year-old using generative AI , lyrics, music, cover art, and music video included.

What does southern fried chicken have in common with a modern technology department? More than you'd think , a recipe for tech teams seasoned to perfection.

Practical tips from judging the European Software Testing Awards , seven things that separate a winning entry from a forgettable one.

A presentation at the Enterprise IT Strategy Forum on what genuine software development productivity actually looks like , and why the word itself has become so loaded.

Six lessons in technology and transformation drawn from Rick and Morty's Pickle Rick episode , covering agility, iteration, and continuous improvement.

A top trumps comparison of the Apollo guidance computer, the Cray-1 supercomputer, and a modern electric toothbrush , the results might surprise you.

Pushing tech analogies to their absolute limit , the entire internet technology stack explained through the medium of potatoes.

A camping trip, Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, a video game about factory building, and the Kardashev Scale , all roads lead to modern IT architecture.

A ten-word definition of Digital , and why the distinction between digitisation, digitalisation, and Digital transformation actually matters.

Like many people this year, working remotely went from an occasional occurrence to an enforced environment. Throw in some kids being “home schooled-ish” and a national shortage of toilet roll and you’

As we approach the end of 2019, it’s time to reflect on the what we’ve achieved over the year and set our goals for the next one. One of the things that we, as a society achieved, was the introduction

I’m honoured to have been asked to deliver the keynote on day 2 of the Enterprise IT Strategy Forum(https://www.enterpriseitstrategyforum.com/event-agenda-day-2/) on the 10th-11th September. If you’re

We’re a finalist in the UK IT Industry Awards 2019.

Recently I was trying to describe the various types of cloud services available for modern IT deployment. Like many, I resorted to an analogy – the ever popular “Pizza as a Service”.

At a recent team away day, I went a little tangential and decided to do a short segment on teamwork. While I was putting the slides together I was reminded of a classic Internet video from 2005 in whi

It’s all very well and good being able to model the enterprise’s processes and systems using a standard notation…but the real test is if it can be used to model something really important…

If you purchased Elite Dangerous: Horizons using Frontier’s website but want want to play it using Steam’s launcher…read on

There’s a few videos doing the rounds of kids reacting to the new star wars trailer…so I thought I’d try it out with my son, Milo.

If you’ve got young kids and fancy a UK based holiday, then Bluestone National Park resort is a top destination…

I recently uncovered an exercise book from when I was nine. It contained a “novel” I started writing, but unfortunately never got past chapter one.  It’s in fairly tatty condition so I thought I’d add

There’s a lot to be said for moving to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but what is it, how do you do it and how do you migrate away from existing systems…

Getting the lad started early with his raving…

The ultimately agile, agile methodology… software development based on my whims and musings…

Think you’re an adult who should be able to make your own decisions?  Think Net Neutrality is the devil?  Think the Daily Mail makes some good points?  Think gypsy, immigrant paedos want to steal bene

It’s always a bit of a strain to write a best man’s speech – but here’s some tips to hopefully help you out…

A report criticising TV comedies for their negative depictions of fathers is at once joyless and opportunistic

For a while now I’ve wanted to update the site’s look and feel…and I’ve finally got around to it. It’s not fully integrated yet so bear with me – but the new theme is flat and responsive so shoul

NASA plans to capture an asteroid and bring it to Earth by 2025

Stuck for inspiration? Create great ideas at the click of a button with this “must have” tool…

My pre-ordered leap motion is being shipped in May – time for a quick look at what it can do…

A great presentation from Martin Fowler intrioducing NoSQL databases

I was sorting out some old music directories and came across loads of tunes I hadn’t heard for ages…here’s a few of them

Nowadays everyone’s talking about cloud computing but why…?

The Californian roadtrip comes to its conclusion in the wonderful city of San Francisco…

The road trip continues up the Californian coast…

Having never visited the states before, I thought it was about time to save some dollars and jet off to California for the all American roadtrip…complete with pancakes and machine guns…

Here are my top 20 PC games based on how long I’ve spent playing them…

After hurtling through space at speeds of up to 17,000mph, Endeavour's last trip will take two days at a sedate 2mph

A description of the different kinds of headache and what you can do about them…

Take a look at what makes up NASA’s space shuttle…

This graphic depicts the remaining number of years of the earth’s stocks of minerals and fuels.

We’ve had a new garden built with a deck…now we just need some Sun to get the BBQ smoking…

A few nuclear weapon facts…

Well, it’s Summer(ish), the Olympics are on and it’s barbecue time so some quality sunshine tunes are in order…

A quick roundup from the best of the web’s take on the London 2012 Olympic Games

We’ve finished building the new Travis Perkins website…

Meat, fish and vegetable recipes for the days you want to keep cool in the kitchen

What can you (almost certainly) get for 10,000,000 dollars, 10,000 scientists and a 17 mile atom smasher?

The site now has a facebook page…

So what if he never smiles? Can't he just play tennis without having to pull a happy face for you?

Everyone loves a good curry and this is my favourite recipe when the boys come round…It takes a while but is easy to prepare, can be done well in advance and tastes great…

The most complicated piece of malicious software ever built? … Cyber Mega-Weapon?…Technical Block Buster?…Super worm?…  “Best Malware Eva”?…

A bit more chilled out this month – it’s been quite hectic at work(http://paulkerrison.co.uk/work/ "Work") so it’s been less about dirty noise and more about nice melody (and some dirty noise)…

Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose Google Fu skills were the stuff of legend…

It looks great, it drives well, It’s quick and it’s been well reviewed…Unfortunately, it’s also a fundamentally flawed design that regularly requires a new engine…

Need a new liver?  No problem, I’ll just print one…

There used to be a time when we had to selectively breed animals and plants to encourage desirable characteristics to be repeated…Now we can identify useful DNA sequences, combine them, order it over

This discussion happens a lot – both inside and outside of work – but what should be taken into account when deciding?

It’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee(http://paulkerrison.co.uk/event/queensdiamond-jubilee-celebration-activities-things-to-do-and-se/ "Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration Activities – Things to do and se

It’s been quite a dubstep month for me music-wise…This is my top 5  playlist for the month.

It’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend coming up and whilst I’m no particular fan of the monarchy – I do appreciate the extra day off.  Other people however, all around the country, are going nuts f

The Olympic Torch Relay runs from the 19th May to 27th july.  Over those 70 days, 8,000 torch bearers will take the torch within a hours drive of 95% of us.

A handy spreadsheet for keeping track of your current financial position across a number of separate accounts.   Helping you to reduce debt or track savings.

Since the retirement of the Shuttle Program last year, America has no means of launching astronauts into space.  In addition to hitching lifts on Russian rockets, they’ve been looking to the private s

A friend and I once made up a drinking version of the classic Monopoly game one bored evening.  It went on to become a Leed Uni smash…well Boddington Hall anyway – I recently found the rules in an old

The high court ruling forcing ISPs to block The Pirate Bay(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176 "BBC Reports on The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs") finally affected me today.  Althoug

Normally a group of us head off down to Devon for the Bank Holiday to do some camping next to the beach in the sun…but this year, there was only 6 of us and the weather was looking pretty miserable so

A handy spreadsheet for keeping track of costs across a group of people.  It’s ideal for house sharers splitting bills or friends splitting the costs of meals and holidays etc.

Integrating a search engine into a website can be as easy as a single click (E.g. using a search plugin for a WordPress blog)  or so complicated it requires months of development effort (E.g. for cust

None of these are particularly new – but I’ve listened to them a lot in April…

Really enjoyed watching the “Gold Rush” series so thought I’d make a game of it…

A quick SEO checklist for reference…

I’ve never used Sketch Up before – but thought I’d give it a go to redesign the back garden…

Google Insights for Search(https://www.google.com/insights/search/ "Google Insights for Search") is a great way to see what the World is searching for. You can compare search volumes across geographic

Everybody loves these extravagant contraptions for achieving very simple tasks