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Never give up on your dreams, even if it turns into a giant fireball

Never give up on your dreams, even if it turns into a giant fireball Following my previous post about speaking to your younger self about what you have achieved, yesterday evening presented one of those opportunities to create something which could fly, originally the idea was to create a Chinese lantern with crate paper and a wax soaked rag, but this was deemed too weak and if we were going to do something like that, we would have to… Make it more interesting shall we say. Previously Dan and I had played with PC Fans and volt steppers and made some “super cool” USB Powered desk fans which now sit beautifully on Dans desk ready to keep him cool when playing Battle Royal Games; however, this time, we wanted to use the same desk fan idea but create a fire tornado as a method of propulsion [If you haven’t seen a fire tornado I would highly recommend you check it out] – The concept behind it, you have a fuel source which is ignited and the open top container is rotate...
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When I grow up I want to be a …

When I grow up I want to be a … What if the career you wanted as a child was the career you actually got as an adult? I’m sure a lot of you remember what you wanted to be as an adult when you were a child being asked the question ‘What do you want to be when you’re grown up?’ If that answer became reality for every child who knew what they wanted to do, I’m sure the world would have a lot more Doctors, Vets, Scientists and Astronauts. What if this same child now, saw what they were doing, twenty to thirty years from that moment after answering that question? Sure, I mean a few of us have gone ahead and followed our dreams and became what we wanted as a child, but what of the rest of us? I want to try something with you: Be yourself, travel back in time, stand in that room where you were asked that question, remembering replying to that question then reflect on what you became? Did your dream change? Did your options increase as time went on? Do you still lust...
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Disaster Recovery doesn't have to be a disaster!

Disaster Recovery doesn't have to be a disaster! Thursday the 30th of May 2019 Being on the front line when it comes into play, a disaster recovery scenario, a large company loses connection to the outside world, your companies main internet connection goes down through no fault of any of the team, but a failure when it comes to the provider. This is your main office, which hosts services to the rest of your World Wide company, your file servers can no longer be reached, all use of remote desktops being accessed from the outside world as well as your internal systems being hosted on Thin Clients, everybody gets, chucked, thrown back to the log in page; a situation like this, in a high paced sales environment – Not even your PIN-based printing services work anymore! Luckily today, in the scenario we faced, our SIP phones were still functional, which gave our busy staff the ability to still make outgoing calls and accept incoming and explain to the cus...
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