Welcome to the smartsized brutalist website!

This is -for now - the smartsizing personal blog. The SWOP communications twitter - rarely used has been deleted. Frankly it was always a big waste of time, but recently actually a PITA.

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*** Here is the general rant blog ***

Thought of the day: Coffeeshops are PAYG low-rent offices except you don't get to control the music played

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Flaw in Cisco's Smart Software Manager allows anyone to alter any user's password. And by anyone, we mean anyone - you don't need to be logged in. And by any user we mean any user - without logging in you can change the admin password, and then log in. Clearly, these data breaches is not going to end any time soon.

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You will no doubt be pleased to know that the person who writes this is not a professional web designer, developer or the person who will manage your website. His background is psychology with a dash of journalism. However SWOP's principles of web design run along the same lines of smartsizing:

Simple/Brutalist/direct
Fast as a feature
No spyware,tracking, annoying popups