The Monkey Blog

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I've recently taken the plunge and installed Wordpress for someone to share their stories. I won't say who it is, to protect her anonymity, but if she's reading this, she'll know I'm referring to her :)

It made me realise just how long I've avoided Wordpress, as I've always felt it was a bit too...

I originally joined Twitter way back during the Arab Spring. It really felt like the world was turning a corner and everything was getting better for everyone. IT was like, as a collective whole we had come together to celebrate throwing off the horrible yoke of oppression and we were rejoicing w...

Humans are, by all measures available to science, dumb as our cave-dwelling ancestors. We like to think we've dragged ourselves up by our collective bootstraps to some high level of culture and refinement, but, as the saying goes "Society is only one meal away from revolution". We're still too t...

The 'flavours' of Ubuntu are a sort-of second-class citizen.. Canonical, obviously, want people to enjoy their flagship experience, which is Ubuntu with GNOME, snap and all the other stuff they've built into it. But the 'flavours' of Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu exist because there's a pa...