Like any other machine, all computer systems are subject to failure from time to time.  Failures on our own PC’s are a pain, but as long as we have suitable backups, it’s not a huge deal to get things back up and running.
Of course in this internet age, we are also very reliant on other [...]

Walking around the shops at the moment you see loads of adverts for free laptops.  Of course, nothing in this life is free, and usually you are paying more than you need to for the mobile phone plan or 3G USB deal to cover the cost of the ‘free’ laptop.
Fortunately, this isn’t always the case! [...]

Like many people, my first email account was with Hotmail – I signed up way back in 1998, when the logo still looked much like the original one above!  Also like many people, over the years I preferred other email providers, and moved my main email account elsewhere.  The trouble with leaving an old email [...]

One of the nice features of having my own hosted website, is the ability to use clever programs to see statistics about my website.

Whilst some parts of the world get plenty of snow, we in southern England rarely get more than a tiny bit so we’re all a bit excited this morning.  News outlets are being pretty slow at getting decent images online