If you live near an old person, don’t go in and check on them, they’ll only tell you about how hot it was in 1976
Well, I am an old person and yes it was hot in 1976, no hotter than now, but as I remember it did go on for a very very very long time. Let’s hope this heatwave continues because I for one am enjoying it. How times have changed, back in 1976 we didn’t have...Chrome and Adobe Flash Problems
Update September 2018 The site needs Flash to work If a website isn’t working, you might need to change your settings to allow Flash. To the left of the web address, click Lock or Info . At the bottom, click Site Settings. In the new tab, to the...
What is Blockchain?
You may have heard about blockchain, quite possibly, like me you first heard of it in relation to something called crypto currency or bitcoin. Bitcoins are apparently a bit like pound coins except they don’t go out of date, don’t really exist, but...
Email is Not Secure
When the Jeremy Vine show (BBC other radio stations are available) announces that “email is not secure”, you wonder if people will actually take notice. I just caught a snippet of an interesting piece today about online security, when the resident...
The Perfect Piece of Software (hasn’t been written yet)
How often do you use a piece of software and find some feature that frustrates and or annoys you? If you’re like me, probably fairly often… daily ..if not hourly. Why can’t those software authors just get it right for once! I don’t want to be asked...
