I recently moved home and found myself without a toaster, without an ironing board, without a bookcase and - most irritatingly of all - without a net connection. How on earth would I survive?
Reasonably easily, as it turned out. In fact for a while I got used to being netless, just like the protagonist of [...]

Tomorrow night in Manchester City centre, UKFast’s MD Lawrence Jones is joining with Yahoo, Hitwise and Internet Marketing agency Adoofa to give tips to city businesses on boosting their online presence.
It’s going to be a hugely informative evening and having heard snippets of Lawrence’s talk, a lot of the information is very specific and could [...]

It’s Friday, it’s sunny, and in between bouts of selectitis I’m writing the UKFast blog. What could be better? Now I realise that most of the time here, I’m either attacking or generally moaning about all sorts of technical things. Not today! Today I shall speak of some of the wonderfulness of modern computers.
Good thing [...]

News reaches me (hot from today’s Metro, courtesy of Mr Bowers) here at UKFast Blog Central that The Queen has received more than 20,000 birthday cards this year - and 17,000 emails. Looks like this new technology has finally filtered through to even the most established parts of The Establishment.
But of course, it’s not new [...]

My friends, we’re living in the future. We can communicate with people across the globe as if they were in the next room, we can annoy people on the train with a vast array of portable noise-making devices, and we can access just about the entire sum of human knowledge from our desktops. So why [...]

I am involved in training some new recruits at UKFast this week and I’ve realised that the subject is so huge that you can’t assume what people will know and what they won’t.
As we’re a hosting company, the core of the training is about our services and how they fit into the grand scheme of [...]