Gordon Banks
A Hero Who Could Fly Eulogy by Don Mullan Stoke Minister Church, Stoke-on-Trent, England4 March 2019 Distinguished guests, dignitaries and friends, I must begin by thanking Mrs. Ursula Banks, and…
Gordon Banks OBE
1937 - 2019 I've been struggling with what to write about Gordon Banks, but I feel that I should. I never met him, I only ever saw him play at…
Rowett, Bojan and Delap
I find myself quite conflicted with the current situation at Stoke City Football Club. On the one hand I really don’t like the football we are playing, on the other…
Loud and Proud in The Bear Pit
I went to my first Stoke match sometime back on the 1970’s, I don’t have vivid memories of it like some report to have, in fact I don’t have many…
Remembrance – 100 years on
So this post has little to do with Stoke City or Cyber Security, I just thought I’d write a brief article about what remembrance day means to me and how…
Routing in Vmware Workstation
VMWare workstation Pro and VMware Fusion Pro both allow you to create custom networks. I use this feature a lot to replicate workloads as closely as possible and in some…
James Mclean, Poppies and Stoke
A lot has been posted and discussed about James McClean and his ongoing and long held choice NOT to wear a poppy and I was disgusted by the behaviour of…
Why every IT Manager should do CEH
Ok, so the title is a bit controversial, I wanted people to read the article. I know that EC Council’s ethical hacking qualification is not popular amongst the security community…
Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption or Public and Private Keys.
Ok, I don't know if I could have had a snappier title but as this blog is really for me to write stuff for my own use and reference then…
Cyber Security Training Resources
@DA_667 posted a twitter thread with a long list of resources that can aid someone starting out or on their Cyber Security journey. A large portion of the list below…