Greetings & Salutations!
Wayne is a polymath who was born at a very early age and, quite impressively, has not died yet-something he considers to be a notable achievement.
He joined Freemasonry in 2006, the Holy Royal Arch in 2007, the S.R.I.A. in 2012, and the Ancient & Accepted Rite in 2013. In 2011, Wayne became the Master of Llannerch Lodge and has spent fourteen of the following fifteen years in one chair or another. His commitment to Masonry is extensive. He was a founding member of the Widows Sons North Wales chapter, served as the Provincial Webmaster for five years, the Assistant Provincial Mentor for five years, and was part of the Membership Pathways Team also for five years. Additionally, Wayne was an active member of the North Wales Association of Masonic Study for eight years, as both a Speaker and committee member, he has also been giving talks across several provinces since 2017.
Wayne is also a fervent supporter of the Blood Bikes Wales charity, dedicating his time and effort to this vital cause, raising over £50,000 from talks and presentations.
Put simply Wayne is A Blood Biker, A CodeNinja, A Gamer, A Hacker, A Blogger, A Writer & Poet, A Speaker, A Freemason, A Rosicrucian, A Reader, A Spod, A Son, An Uncle, A Brother, A Man, AN INDIVIDUAL!
From the Pen of Wayne Owens
Recent News & Blog Posts
Busby Update – Part 2
Now as you are aware, I have not broken Busbys systems since going live with the project. I was thinking it was all flowing well and they had got “used” to me now, so the end of all my problems… Then came the Christmas shutdown period, and I came back to work tried to...
Livejournal
I was reading on t’interweb about the Russian owners of Livejournal laying off most of its staff without any severance packages, and since all of these people are in the technical area, leaving only sales people left its a bit of an interesting time. So being a IT...
IT workers + Coffee = Peace
There should be a form of Caffeine-Breathalyser fitted to all computers that prevent incoming emails unless the operator has a sufficient amount of caffeine in their system to cope with lUsers. For my example I shall use my morning. 9am: Get into office, log into...
Busby Update – Obscure Code
I thought I would just give you some update's on the fun of Busby's “Obscure Code”. AKA: The bane of the Internet.Update 1. After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by Busby. The file was...
Sys.Admin you Long Time. 10 dollar
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no Sys.Admin to look after...
Historical Code or How Much Of The Internet Does Nothing
Here is a Question. How much of the Internet’s Backbone is obsolete. Code that no one knows what it does or how it works? Let me give you an example: - I have recently been integrating my companies systems into several of the Major Telecommunications Companies own...
False Security – When I.T. Decisions go Wrong
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while, ever since they asked...
Why Geeks should never be allowed to make decisions
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone switched off over...
The Geek “Which came first?” Question
I’ve just finished re-watching the 1st season of “The I.T. Crowd“. I was reconfiguring a Laptop and needed something playing in the background. Now one of the running jokes in the show is the answer-all response to all phone requests “Have you tried turning it off and...
The Year That Was – 2007
Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2007 Edition
Fourth Masonic Step
This evening I became a Companion of the Holy Royal Arch. There are three degrees in Masonry, the Entered Apprentice, the Fellowcraft, and the Master Mason including the royal arch. So while the Royal Arch is a separate order, it is highly linked to Masonry, and...
The Animals Have Gone Mad
A strange thing happened to me on the way into the office this morning…. That almost sounds like the start of a cheesy joke. But. Seriously. Driving into work this morning I got into a game of chicken with a Magpie, and almost lost. (It ended in a draw), Driving along...