Blogs

I’ve had a miserable experience with RSS feeds in Outlook. There are feeds (suc as those from teh Stack Overflow Trilogy sites) that I just know should update at least every few minutes, yet Outlook often takes an hour or more to show any changes. Today...

This amazing free report by Imperva presents an analysis of over 32 million compromised user passwords, obtained in the Rockyou.com breach . The report lists the top 20 passwords used, and here they are: Is your password in the list? If so, I’d consider...

So many people buy the very cheapest add-ons for their computer, or just buy the first thing they see on the shelves. Let me tell you, there is a lot of nasty rubbish out there. It all looks good in the box, but when you get it home and plug it in, things...

I’ve always jokingly said that my favourite computer game is Microsoft Office. Well, I think Microsoft must have heard me, because now, you can play Ribbon Hero and have fun while you learn how to become an Office power user. They say that if you find...

This last week has been a troubled time for me emotionally. Partly through unfortunate circumstance and partly through stupidity, I’ve made some massive blunders in my relationships with several people. Some of the people are close to me, others I have...

Successful information technology requires vision and strategy . People sometimes ask me why I work exclusively with Microsoft products, when there are free alternatives available. There are many reasons, and one big one is because Microsoft has the vision...

Well, at least not paper ones. My colleague Richard Tubb covers some of the reasons that I agree with completely. I haven’t sent Christmas Cards for a lot longer than Richard, though, so I’m not going to get away with his ‘Internet’ explanation. It’s...

Everything You Do is Marketing I see lots of individuals and worse, businesses who project a shoddy half-assed online persona. Businesses should really understand this: everything you do says something about your company . Your online presence is perhaps...