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04/15/2026

03/31/2026

The Importance of Flow in SharePoint Intranet Design

When organisations set out to build a Microsoft SharePoint intranet, the focus often lands on structure, permissions, and content. While these elements are undeniably important, there is one critical factor that frequently gets overlooked flow.

Flow is the invisible thread that connects your intranet together. It’s what determines whether users can move seamlessly between departments, find what they need quickly, and actually want to use the platform. Without it, even the most well-organised SharePoint environment can feel fragmented and frustrating.
What Do We Mean by “Flow”?
In the context of a SharePoint intranet, flow refers to the ease and intuitiveness of navigation between different spaces, such as:

Department sites (HR, IT, Finance)
Project work spaces
Team collaboration areas
Corporate resources and knowledge bases

Good flow means users don’t have to stop and think about where to go next. The path is obvious, consistent, and efficient.

Why Flow Matters
1. Reduces Friction for Users

Every extra click, dead-end page, or confusing navigation choice adds friction. Over time, this leads to frustration—and ultimately, abandonment. If users can’t move easily between spaces, they’ll revert to email, shared drives, or other workarounds.

2. Encourages Cross-Team Collaboration

An intranet should break down silos, not reinforce them. When flow is well-designed, users can naturally move from their team’s space into another department’s resources without hitting barriers or feeling “lost.”

3. Improves Content Discoverability

Content that exists but can’t be found might as well not exist. Flow ensures that information is connected, not isolated. Related content should be reachable within a few intuitive steps.

4. Drives Adoption

User adoption is the ultimate success metric for any intranet. A system that “just makes sense” will be used. One that requires training for basic navigation will not.

Common Pitfalls That Break Flow
Overly rigid site hierarchies that don’t reflect how people actually work
Inconsistent navigation menus between sites
Lack of cross-linking between related content
Too many clicks to reach common destinations
Isolated team sites with no clear path back to the broader intranet

These issues create a disjointed experience where each site feels like a separate island.

Designing for Better Flow
1. Think in Journeys, Not Structures
Instead of asking, “Where should this content live?”, ask:
“How will users move through this content?”
Map out common user journeys:
Employee onboarding
Submitting IT requests
Accessing policies
Collaborating across teams

Design navigation to support these paths.
Consistency builds familiarity—and familiarity builds speed.

03/24/2026

Wi-Fi Security Cameras are vulnerable to deauthentication (deauth)

While deauth attacks are technically simple and widely known since at least 2016, many manufacturers have not implemented basic protections, leaving consumers exposed.

How Deauth Attacks Works
An attacker uses a wireless adapter, and tools like aircrack-ng or a $30 device from eBay) to:

Identify your camera’s MAC address and your Wi-Fi router’s MAC address.
Flood the camera with deauth packets that mimic legitimate signals from the router.
Force the camera to disconnect repeatedly, preventing it from streaming video or sending alerts.
As a result, your camera appears offline or frozen, even though it’s physically intact. This can happen instantly and is effective regardless of your Wi-Fi password.

Real-World Impact Video streams stop: The camera cannot send live footage to your phone or NVR.
Alerts fail: Motion or sound detection may not trigger notifications.
No warning: Most cameras don’t alert you when the connection is disrupted, so you may not realize your security system is compromised.

Vulnerable Devices
Cameras that do not support 802.11w (Protected Management Frames) are especially vulnerable.
Older or budget models often lack these protections, even if they support Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) or newer.

Protection Strategies Use wired (PoE) cameras: The most effective defense no Wi-Fi means no deauth risk.

Enable 802.11w: If your camera and router support it, turn on Protected Management Frames (PMF).

Monitor for disconnections: Use apps or systems that alert you if your camera loses internet connectivity.

03/19/2026

A Square Peg

In the course of my work, I have been exposed to a wide range of IT sectors, including industrial, financial, pharmacological, and developmental environments. Despite their differences, these domains share a common challenge when it comes to computing.

By approximately 2015, most organisations already possessed the essential tools required to operate effectively: systems capable of supporting productivity, communication, and a stable desktop experience. In many respects, the foundational needs of modern business computing had been met.

However, rather than consolidating and stabilising these capabilities, organisations have been compelled to contend with a continuous cycle of software upgrades, hardware replacements, and re-certification requirements. This ongoing churn often diverts attention and resources away from core business objectives.

Stability, unfortunately, offers limited commercial incentive. As a result, organisations are frequently required to adapt their processes to align with evolving technologies effectively forcing a square peg into an ever changing round hole.

Once a particular vendor ecosystem has been adopted, and significant financial and operational investments have been made, the ability to pivot becomes increasingly constrained. Organisations may find themselves effectively locked in, subject to unilateral changes in product direction, pricing structures, or terms of service.

For this reason, it is prudent to exercise careful consideration before committing to any given technological path, regardless of its popularity or market momentum. Decision-makers should ask: What are the fundamental requirements of our work? What tools are truly necessary to meet those needs? Are there viable and sustainable alternatives?

For organisations whose primary activities involve documentation, spreadsheets, or web-based applications, it may be worthwhile to consider adopting a Linux-based desktop environment. Proprietary systems, such as Windows, can then be reserved for users with specific software dependencies that require them.

03/15/2026

Surviving 2026 Offline - Finding your Zen Zone.

In this fast-paced technological world it's hard to find a space that is not influenced by outside voices.

I am pretty much as geeky as they get, and love technology but sometimes need a place where I am alone with my thoughts, and they are not being influenced, spell corrected, grammar checked, or textually parsed by someone, and most importantly free from distraction.

For this I have my old IBM ThinkPad running Ubuntu Linux offline, to run the simplest of editors, work on spreadsheets, and keep a diary.
I have my other systems but, this is my Zen Zone.

03/01/2026

I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who supported me this year.

Your encouragement, collaboration, and trust truly meant a great deal.
Thank you

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02/20/2026

https://youtu.be/c2ECt0dxTks
Another great video from Louis Rossmann on the right to repair, and companies trying to get around legislation under the guise of their products being critical infrastructure.

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02/18/2026

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02/09/2026

Be your own AI Gatekeeper.

02/06/2026

Zorin OS -Linux over 2 million downloads.
Another great video from Rob Braxman the privacy guy, for those Windows 10 users not wanting to upgrade to Windows 11.

More and more computer user are flocking to Linux. But what's surprising is that a large number migrated to Zorin. Apparently it got 2 Million downloads in 3...