🎂🔥 Today is the day. I’m 60. Final episode is live. 🔥🎂Title: “Happy Birthday… and What’s Next?” Tone: British comic (Jerome K. Jerome + Douglas Adams + one Monty Python coconut), curtain call by Shakespeare—because “the readiness is all,” even when the cake looks like a small volcano. What’s inside (swift, silly, true): A birthday roll call (turns out 25 August is a crowded cake). “What else happened on 25 August?”—from Paris breathing again to Voyager waving from very far away. My Chinese zodiac lap reset: 60 years later, back to Wood Snake. Yes, apparently I’m a strategic reptile with…
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🎂📚 Countdown to Sixty – Part 4 is live 🌍🎸 Tomorrow is the last one of the series, so enjoy today’s penultimate ramble while the cake defrosts. 😅 What’s inside (no spoilers, just crumbs): How a Valentine’s Day misread in Mexico taught me that meanings change by postcode. The Shenzhen Metro puzzle: Chinese/Cantonese/English station names that are not twins… cue several heroic wrong exits. Home life in Itanol (Italian + Spanish), with strategic Japanese nouns and the occasional sentence that forgets which language it started in. Choosing family over the travelling-manager life, on purpose. Health as a strict teacher: I…
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🎂⏳ Countdown to Sixty – Article 3 of 5 ⏳🎂Two days to my birthday… and only two more articles to go. If you’re tired reading, imagine writing them. 😅Today’s episode is a boardroom western:“The Genius, the Charlatan, and the IP = Instant Pizza Manager.”Think Sergio Leone meets cybersecurity, narrated with a wink to Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Adams, and a little Monty Python coconut to bonk nonsense on the head.In 40 years I’ve met them all—in tech and in real life. The Genius who quietly saves weekends with a boring, perfect restore. The Charlatan who repackages yesterday and sells it…
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🎂🧠🎸 Countdown to Sixty – Part 2 is live 🧯🛰️ Birthday countdown update: T-minus a few days until I officially qualify as vintage hardware.I need to publish this before age hits the Delete key on my short-term memory. Today’s topic? The single toughest obstacle to decent security: human stupidity—not “not knowing”, but not knowing while loudly pretending you do. In forty years I’ve watched Web 2.0 deliver a cultural revolution (not a technical one): everyone became a publisher, the algorithm handed out megaphones, and confident error went viral. Add developers racing deadlines (hello COM+ era turning off security to ship…
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Here we go. Today marks the beginning of my birthday countdown: four long rants (sorry, “reflections”) before the inevitable day when I officially turn 60.Now, you might think this is the time for solemn self-congratulation, tearful gratitude speeches, or perhaps a LinkedIn-friendly list of life lessons beginning with “Always…” or “Never…”. Forget it. At 60, I’m too bald to bend, too old to pretend, and too sarcastic to play the game of polished self-branding.This first chapter takes the shape of an ikigai autopsy, with me lying on the dissection table while four Japanese circles argue over whether I’ve wasted my…
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