Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 January 2022
The Wordle bandwagon is rolling fast downhill, but we managed to board it. This blog shows one Wise Owl's current stats, and links to our Power BI, Python and Excel VBA versions of this web-based word game.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 September 2021
Some of the sites on this page will make you laugh, and some make you shake your head, but they should all entertain you for a moment or two!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 August 2021
The IKEA blue Frakta shopping bag is iconic, and everywhere. Here are 5 suggestions (not always totally serious) for how you can recycle your IKEA bags!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 August 2021
The Stuxnet worm was one of the most sophisticated bits of software ever written. Find out exactly how the US and Israel used it to target Iranian uranium centrifuges, and see the implications this has for us all.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 July 2021
You may know about What 3 Words, which allows you to pinpoint your location in the world using just 3 words. Now there's Four King Words, which does the same for the UK and Ireland using just 4 swear words.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 July 2021
Do you know why World Emoji Day is held on July 17th each year? Or how to see the world's emojis being tweeted in real time? Or that Microsft are trying to resurrect Clippy the paper-clip as an emoji? These are just 3 of the 9 fascinating facts explained in this blog!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 December 2020
Thanks to Simon Ranson for contributing this bit of trivia: what to type into your browser's address bar to turn it into a text editor.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 November 2020
There's an uncanny correlation between the Mr Men series and the list of American presidents. Donald Trump comes in as Mr Rude, Barack Obama as Mr Cool … see how many correlations you can find!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 24 October 2020
Vancouver-based artist Tim Klein has used the fact that many jigsaws are based on the same template to create some truly weird and wonderful composite images.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 13 March 2020
We receive a fair few requests asking us to publish the answers to our exercises. We have now decided to do this, on the understanding that they are for your personal use only.
Posted by
Shaun Wantling
on 22 November 2019
People become trainers for many different reasons. In this blog, Shaun explains his journey from being an accountant to training people in IT.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 19 August 2019
Lots of our training material uses examples related to movies but did you know that Wise Owl has several tenuous connections to famous films?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 September 2016
If you want to initiate (or take part in) a discussion on our website, you'll first need to create a post - and to do that, you'll need to register on our site. This blog explains how to do both these things!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 July 2023
One owl's sad story of addiction to a simple computer game: a tale of lost time and lost sanity.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 16 May 2014
Did you know that Excel workbooks are really just a collection of XML files, all zipped together? We didn’t either, so we thought we'd tell the world.