A while ago the Web was in the grip of robots. Take two of the classic web searches (no, not those two, this is a family blog) - consumer electronics and celebrities. I’d be searching for a USB powered keyboard warmer and the latest pictures of Brian Blessed, and all I’d get was a hundred [...]

Lately I’ve been spreading myself all over the internet, in the same way as Jonathan Ross is spread across the TV and radio - admittedly without the wit, fame or eyeball-worrying collection of clothes. As I’ve said in previous entries, I’m a big fan of sites like 43things and last.fm, which are busy either recording [...]

Disclaimer: I know what ‘beta’ means!
Up until a few days ago I was using the new Windows Live Mail beta, instead of my usual Hotmail account. Now I’m back to good old Hotmail. Why? Mainly because the new system doesn’t work in Firefox. In my tricked-out browser of choice the whole Live Mail system is [...]

OK so there’s been a lot of news lately about Myspace:

Firebombing!
Police stings!
Rupert Murdoch!

For those of you unaware (i.e. those of you who aren’t as young and cool as you think you are), Myspace is a ’social networking’ site that basically reproduces the grown-up web in a microcosm of epileptic-fit inducing flashing backgrounds, pictures of teenagers [...]

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 [...]