Photo: Shutterstock It’s all quiet in the office.  Between Christmas we run “skeleton staff”, so really only as many staff as we need for this quiet period.  It’s a good way for the others to have a break before the new year.  So, I’m here in a nice quiet office manning the helpdesk, which...

So Christmas is over and done with (I’m one of those who thinks Christmas starts on December 24th when I wake up and ends December 25th when I go to sleep; not from December 1st) and I am really pleased that I got a Kindle for Christmas.  Sure, I still have some unread analogue books (I’m claiming that term...

I’ve been looking around WordPress and generally looking to increase the amount of traffic to my site, for no other reason than I like to see the hits in Google analytics.  When I was going through and commenting on books to try and get input into my bitching about the price of e-books, I came across a concept called...

Image: Maggie Smith / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Having read an article about e-book costs in the Daily Mail, I got wondering just how much do books cost, not to me the consumer, but to publishing houses, and bases on the lack of physical medium, what should an e-book really cost, logically? I had a look online and some of...

Having already set up my virtual machine manager on Wednesday, it was time for me to dabble in setting up virtual machines.  Obviously it helps a lot if you have spare resources on your machine to be able to run these things, or both your main machine and the virtual machine would run awful.  As a brief note I have a...

I like Linux, it appeals to the tinkerer and geek inside of me.  I like playing with things, and I like to be a little bit different.  Ok, Linux is going mainstream, and with the rise and rise of Android, people are starting to realise there is more to like than what the shops throw at you all the time.  My problem is...

I’ve not been a big fan of Christmas for a number of years – coming up close to decades ever since learning the truth about Christmas*.  Traditionally it’s always brought about family arguments, indecision and general over spending and over indulging. I’ve tried to be a little more up-beat about...