Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan is a famous house music DJ from Birmingham who along with his brothers, Mick and Dermot, and their mate Lee, responsible for the seminary U.K. and global nightclub brands, Miss Moneypennys and Chuff Chuff. Jim is also my mate. I knew that Jim had trained as a…
Alev Scott is a young female Brit whose mother has Turkish Cypriot roots and in this great study of modern turkey she relocates to Istanbul and immerses herself as much as possible in Turkish society Long time leader Erdogan, has done a lot to change Turkey in the past couple…
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Thomas Paine is an important writer at an important time that bequeaths us in his ‘Rights of Man’ a fundamental shakeup of what our democratic rights as citizens should be, drawing especially on the French Revolution and also American Revolution and the fundamental rights that their new revolutionary societies produced…
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Artificial Intelligence or AI is a buzz word and concept that is very popular now. Generative AI is an advanced form of AI whereby text and images can be created and vast amounts of computer processing power is used to create content. This LinkedIn Learning course covered the basic principals…
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This book is quite old, first published in 1951, it dates from a period when the totalitarian reality of Hitler and Stalin were very much fresh in the mind. Hannah Arendt was a German Jew and this work is both philosophical, enlightening and gives a valuable educated insight into the…
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Often, when you first start working in #cybersecurity , you are likely to be positioned on an IT desk somewhere, doing looking after the digital networks of a corporation. This LinkedIN course looks at what it takes to work on an IT Help desk.
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This introductory course on LinkedIn focused on learning about Splunk, a cybersecurity platform utilized by corporations to combat cyber-attacks and safeguard their networks. Participants gained insights into the platform’s functionalities and its significance in enhancing cybersecurity measures in organizational settings.
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Splunk is a platform used in cybersecurity to protect and mitigate against cyberattacks. This LinkedIn Learning course covered the essential basics and got me used to using Splunk.
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