Random thoughts of a crowded mind
A rally to be held on Thursday 2 February, in support of US Screen Actors Guild SAG-AFTRA’s 102-day-old strike against selected video game companies promises to be the union’s biggest to date, …
Video game strike action rally planned for ThursdayRead More
Mac users like to boast that once you go Mac, you’ll never go back. When I left the headaches of a Windows machine behind for my iMac I found that to be mostly true. As a Mac user I don’t have to …
At the beginning of June there were media reports on the risk of two malware issues: GameOver Zeus and CryptoLocker. Gameover Zeus is malware aimed at stealing banking details and passwords from home …
Protect your computer from GameOver Zeus and CryptolockerRead More
Google Plus is the second-largest social networking site in the world. Yes it’s even bigger than Twitter but it was a ghost town for the longest time after it launched. From a business perspective, …
Several years ago I set up a hyperlocal blog to rant about my concerns with the goings on my local community. I had started to see a big deterioration in the high street and wanted to know if others …
Six months ago I set myself the task of increasing readership of this blog and generally putting myself out there by the end of the year. It's been an interesting experiment and I learned things about …
After eight years with the same web hosting service I finally bit the bullet and moved away. I’d been experiencing far too much downtime and when you just want to write, it’s so frustrating when you …
So you’ve planned a nice beach holiday where reading will play a major factor. You’ve loaded up your tablet with all your ebooks, packed the tanning lotion and think you’re good to go. Depending on …
So you think you own your ebooks – newsflash, you don’t!Read More
My mind has been a free spirit this week and I can’t tie it down to any one task. That’s not a bad thing though because whilst it’s off wondering and dipping its toes in the sea, I tend to learn a …
Protecting your blog content from theft and other legal stuffRead More
The clock is counting down to the end of day six of the #31WriteNow blog challenge and I’m searching for something to post. Digging through my drafts I came across a review for the season finale of …
Tools of the trade – mobile blogging using the WordPress appRead More
I noticed that my blog is inaccessible for about a minute at different times of the day. When I checked my logs it seems that two extremely aggressive search engines spider the site and use up my …
In my attempt to restore this site to it’s former glory I let myself get bogged down with marketing my blog instead of actually writing. I worried about things that could only change with time like …
