Category: Columns

Geoff has written for publications as diverse as PC User and The Northern Star His weekly columns have been a source of humour and inspiration for tens of thousands of readers and his mailbox is always full.
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Blockchain: Starting Guide for beginners

Geoff Ebbs /19 March, 2018

Author: Brian Reel ISBN: 1983889105 Publisher: self-published, Brian Reel BLOCKCHAIN: Starting Guide For Beginners, All About Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Mining And Future Of Money was self published by Brian Reel in January 2018 and provides a high level overview in straightforward business English. Reel takes us through the actual processes of creating, using and trading in Continue Reading →

Getting ahead of Bitcoin

Geoff Ebbs /19 March, 2018

Whether you are an investor, a programmer or an entrepreneur BitCoin will radically and directly change your life in the next couple of years. School teachers, activists and artists might not be directly in the firing line but Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, is going to affect us all. The questions are how and how Continue Reading →

Mercer's Cambridge Analytica knew exactly what it was doing with Brexit

Brexit was the practice run for Trump

Geoff Ebbs /6 March, 2018

… and Trump is the practice run for taking over the US establishment. As reported here a little over a year ago, Robert Mercer has been building a media empire specifically designed to consolidate power. His empire was initially built on his work in artificial intelligence and natural languages that brought him in contact with Continue Reading →

The polar vortex is the atmospheric equivalent of the gulf stream

Warming poles drive wild weather

Geoff Ebbs /6 March, 2018

The “Beast from the East” that froze Europe last week is actually closer to the Game of Thrones Winter crossing The Wall. The Wall is a jet-stream driven by the temperature difference between the poles and continental Eurasia and North America. As the Arctic warms dramatically that differential disappears and the arctic airmass leaks south. Continue Reading →

Efficient technologies increase consumption

Geoff Ebbs /6 March, 2018

Increasing energy efficiency has long been promoted as a realistic means of reducing consumption and so lowering carbon emissions and resource consumption. Only problem is, gee whiz, that it does not work. Figures of the last two decades of energy use indicate that given an increase in efficiency, the resultant price drop encourages additional use Continue Reading →

Church and State collude to worship money

Geoff Ebbs /25 February, 2018

From The Cage – 6th September 2016 We have had quite a few stories about the role of money in the news recently. This week it was the Universal Basic Income in Finland. Last week it was the attempt to eliminate cash in Sweden and the tactical undermining of the US dollar by Russia and Continue Reading →