Thoughts On The Book “The End Of Mr. Y”
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I bought the book “The End Of Mr. Y”, by Scarlett Thomas, as a Christmas gift but for a number of reasons I ended up reading it and I am glad I did, in fact …

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Day 48 Low-Carb
Monday, 16 Jul, 2007 | One Comment

Sundays weigh in came and went. Somehow I managed to attain a record 9lb loss bringing me down to 23st which is the lowest weight I’ve been at for a long time. Actually, its largely …

Day 45 Low-Carb
Friday, 13 Jul, 2007 | 2 Comments

Low-carbing is tough - its tough to get into, tough to maintain and very very easy to fall of the wagon. Getting back on the wagon takes at least two days so the effects of …

Acrobat Reader 8.0.1 woes…
Friday, 13 Jul, 2007 | One Comment

My users had been insisting on an upgrade to Acrobat on their Terminal Service environment as many of them were still running v5 which was fine for many a a time but the number of …

On Computer Weeklys article BT to banish SME’s helpdesk 101
Wednesday, 11 Jul, 2007 | 2 Comments

Following on from computer weeklys article here I found the top three answers given by helpdesks fascinating but unsurprising.
The top three answers were:

Have you tried turning it off and on again? (25%)
We are aware of …

Power failures
Tuesday, 10 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

It seems I have finally succumbed to the lurgy of tonsilitis after Sharon and Jessica both fell with it. I thought I’d been lucky and managed to avoid it but no such luck. Of course, …

From ‘The Times’ - Education and Industry Collaboration
Saturday, 7 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Here’s an article in the Times Educational Supplement from the 22nd June 2007 that talks about the advantages of collaborations between higher education and industry. Aside from it having a great comment from my brother …

On the Unpopularity of Blogs and Wikis
Friday, 6 Jul, 2007 | 3 Comments

Commenting on a post on Digital Inspiration entitled “Why Are Blogs, Wikis Not Popular Than Email for Getting Things Done: Google Tech Talk“.
I remember a time when email was unpopular and ‘would never take off’ …

Postcard from a relative - surely not?
Friday, 6 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Monk and I have been busy most of the afternoon clearing up several users personal laptops as they experienced various difficulties, one of which was the latest postcard from a relative trojan. Fortunately, all …

BotVoice Trojan
Friday, 6 Jul, 2007 | No Comment

Following on from Andy, IT Guys Blog post and the BotVoice Trojan reported in Yahoo News. I wonder how many errors a user must have made in the first place to be affected by …

XP "You must install networking before you change this computers domain membership"
Friday, 6 Jul, 2007 | 2 Comments

A user was unable to connect to network shares yet unusually Internet access was working fine. After checking all the obvious things like File and Printer Sharing, Firewalls, etc I found the solution to be …