Jonathan Ross 's Practical Technologies

How malware ate my Desktop PC .. what I learnt.

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:17:26 PDT

Like any of us if enough time goes by in peace and quiet we get complacent and don't follow our own established procedures. That's what happened to me two weeks ago. My PC was infected with a...

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Cellular Hack *81

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:07:19 PDT

Yesterday I saw I had a message on my Windows Mobile phone and half paying attention dialed *80 to access my voicemail. Actually I had dialled *81 and I hung up after several seconds and redialled to...

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Think outside the box? Ignore the box and just think.

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:06:55 PDT

When confronted by a difficult or challenging problem we are encouraged to Think outside the box. This concept is based on finding non-conventional, creative or more radical solutions that would not...

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Making the testing cycle easier to swallow

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:12:01 PDT

As a manager an consultant one of things I frequently encounter when I am hired to increase productivity in the test lifecycle is conflict.Now there are contructive ways for conflict to flourish but...

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Movie bests etc.

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:41:08 PDT

I am a huge movie fan. I have always enjoyed the movies and not just the whole popcorn, big drink experience but also remembering quotes, facts etc.I decided to compile my own list of "bests" so here...

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Martial Arts (Judo and Hapkido) as a life philosphy

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:03:52 PDT

I practised Judo and Hapkido for quite a number of years. As a martial artist I always prided myself on one thing. No matter the number of times I was thrown, kicked, punched or battered I would...

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Tools, techniques and resolving conflicts in Development

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:04:45 PDT

There are many different organizations, start-ups amongst them where the transfer of knowledge between teams or individual can be akin to pulling teeth; difficult, messy and painful. The classic...

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Resume (CV) Inspirations that are a little obvious ...

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:05:34 PDT

The times you need a printed resume these days seem to be fewer and further between. Everyone wants resumes in digital format RTF, DOC, DOCX or even PDF (some even have video resumes). There was a...

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Does Facebook perceive itself as a virtual society?

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:54:53 PDT

As the arguement rages about Facebook's liberal interpretation of free speech i.e. allowing Holocaust deniers the right to post freely on Facebook I am sure that the deniers and spreaders of hate are...

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The cellphone saga in a nutshell

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:42:01 PDT

About 8 months ago my cellphone stopped working. I dutifully took the Nokia 6233 to my cellular provider and received it back as unfixable from the service center. They told me I could pay for...

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The great PC meltdown didn't happen overnight

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:57 PDT

I've been away awhile and it has been a combination of a few things, work gettting in the way of life, a stint wrestling with writers block and finally the creeping meltdown of my PC.Deep down when...

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Shared knowledge (or skills) is power

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:08:10 PST

Those of you lucky (lol) enough to have read my resume have seen that I have led a diverse career in terms of the types of employers I have had; start-ups, software houses, factories, public sector...

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Web 2.0 Resume etc continued

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:52:24 PST

Web 2.0 and my Resume (see earlier article) Well last week was the hi-tech job fair in Tel Aviv and even knowing what to expect (it used to be in the main hall of the Tel Aviv Conference Center;...

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What it took for my Nokia 6233 to die

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:49:00 PST

I have been Twittering a lot recently about my Nokia cellular phone which needed repairing. I had my backup phone an iMate sp3i which my brother Jeremy, CEO of First Contact UK supplied me with in my...

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How SATA left me with a shelf of redundant Hard Disks and what I did next

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:31:00 PST

Technological progress is a great thing. We want our devices smaller, faster with longer lasting power and so forth but what do we do with the stuff from before the great techno-leap? One example is...

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Web 2.0 and My Resume

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:49:24 PST

It is a definite sign of intelligence when you find other smart people who have the same idea as you but it's also a sign that you need a stronger coffee blend in the morning if you have the idea...

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The Swag Bag Has Landed

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:36:34 PST

A hearty cheers to my brother in law who just returned from the US of A and offered to bring me a few goodies back. Knowing that space and weight are an issue I was somewhat restrained in my...

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My first Jeff Pulver Breakfast, Business Cards et al

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:50 PST

When you aren't working most of your time is spent thinking about looking for work, looking for work and doing the odd job around the house that your spouse or you have put off doing because of lack...

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Financial meltdown - or is it? Who benefits from the panic?

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:04:06 PDT

When I was a teenager I remember seeing these guys wandering around Manchester city center with sandwich boards on their backs that said, "The end of the world is nigh!" I was a little puzzled about...

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My latest MacGyver moment or "Ooof how do I open that?"

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:31:09 PDT

Today I popped down with my wife to our parking space just to check the water and oil on her car. I had borrowed the aging Renault Megane several days ago and for some reason suspected the...

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A philosophical look at tools

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:20:34 PDT

If you haven't guessed it I'm a tools guy. Not gadgets but tools. Like the blog name says, it needs to be practical. I've written in the past about folding tools like Leatherman, SOG et al and...

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Succot and the satisfaction of a job well-done

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:55:00 PDT

For those of you who don't know, I am a hands on sort of guy. I like to get my hands dirty whether it be replacing parts inside my PC (when needed), under the hood of the car, those really cool IKEA...

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Refining and redefining ...

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:33:40 PDT

Several weeks ago the company I was working at suffered a series of cutbacks. The first of us to lose our jobs were the outsourced personnel or consultants (it just sounds a little more dignified...

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Why can't Sun Java and Adobe play nicely together?

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:23:43 PDT

I test software, it's what I do and recently I have been testing a fantastic implementation of Adobe's Flex as a front-end web-site for various web services running on IIS and MS-SQL. I am...

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You got your Outlook stuck in my Project ... Microsoft Reeses Pieces

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Ross) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:12:06 PDT

Ah yes, Microsoft Outlook. With all that processing and management muscle one might think you could run a small country with it. Let me ask you though, do you use Tasks? Do you allocate them to...

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