WeekEnd Feature:

by Ian Thompson, CCSP Staff Editor
September 5, 2003

Ian Thompson (Bio)
Born in the sixties; grew up in the seventies; around for the first wave of home computers in the eighties. Still got most of those I owned (including a still-to-be-built Sinclair ZX-81 kit). High school teacher in Leeds, UK. Manager of a 500-PC, 9-server, 1700-user school network in my 'spare time'. With only myself and two technicians, it gets kinda crazy. In my 'other' spare time, I've written articles for the Hutchinson Encyclopedia, plus many resources in support of teaching ICT in the UK schools' National Curriculum. I'm also a beta tester for security software, with over 15 years' experience building and supporting PCs. Former contributor to Sinclair QL World magazine, with a couple of titles still in circulation for that venerable computing platform - like the Amiga, the QL won't lay down and die, but the royalties are a bit less these days..



Welcome! Data Matters! January 9, 2004
How safe is your cash?? January 17, 2004
Gone Phishing January 24, 2004
Passwords: how do you choose January 31, 2004
Why are we always so surprised? February 7, 2004
Why WiFi? February 14, 2004
Mirror, mirror, on the wall… February 21, 2004
Knock knock… February 27, 2004
The perils of upgrading. March 6, 2004
What a niggling week! March 13, 2004
Making sense of it all. March 20, 2004
Shut that door! March 27, 2004
Bombproof? April 3, 2004
Quick! Send me to Tibet!! April 10, 2004
Tiny mInds? April 17, 2004
Inspiration, perspiration – where’s the happy balance? April 24, 2004
Public enemy number one – the public. May 1, 2004
Blink and you’ll miss it May 8, 2004
Hackers, Crackers and Gaps in the Wall… May 15, 2004
Cue me a Reggae beat! May 22, 2004

by Ian Thompson ComputerCops Staff Editor



Ian Thompson is a Network Manager of a 500-PC, 9-server, 1700-user school network and is an ICT teacher at a UK high school near the city of Leeds. He has written articles for the Hutchinson Encyclopedia, plus many resources in support of teaching ICT in the UK schools' National Curriculum.

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Published on: 2004-02-07 (4584 reads)