Today, Google had some major issues for about an hour – see here.  A few years back, we would just have accepted that a site went down and hope it came back soon.
These days, it’s different though!  

Uh oh, looks like something has exploded in the googleplex!!
As of about 14:30 GMT today, every Google search result shows the phrase ‘this site may harm your computer’ and blocks you from accessing the site!!

How many times have we done this?  Working away on an important document, we need to leave quickly so we just hit ’save’ and go.  When we come back to work on the document, you can pretty much guarantee it won’t be in the most recent files any more and you didn’t save it where [...]

In these days of recession and general economic distress, there are understandably fewer new startup companies emerging, even in the tech world. 
However, there are still a few emerging.  Plinky has just launched it’s new service, which is yet another social networking platform but one with a nice twist.  Plinky poses a new question each day to it’s members, so all [...]

As more and more of our lives involve being online, there are lots of aspects to consider in terms of our safety and security.
The safety of our money is one of the most publicised aspects as each time there is a notable breach of security of a bank’s online services many people will worry that [...]

 
Since moving this site from Wordpress.com to my own hosted version, I’ve had the fun of being able to customise the site far more.
Firstly to explain a bit of background, if you have some of your own webspace (with certain requirements), you can run your own copy of the Wordpress software and muck about with [...]

If you are reading this, then you are in an internet browser.  The browser is the software program used to access (or browse) all the websites making up the wonderful web!
The browser people are most familiar with is probably Internet Explorer, which comes on every Windows PC.  Internet Explorer was based on one of the [...]

Further to my post last week when I talked about using Google Reader to keep up to date with blogs and other sites, the Google Reader team have come up with this rather userful video on the subject, which is ideal for beginners wanting to use it.