Author Archives: Derek

Microsoft Outlook Problem

I was alerted by a client last night by a strange problem with Microsoft Outlook [...]

Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset

In 2003 I took CIW Associate and CIW Professional courses at LearningIT in Stirling before [...]

Gerry and the Pacemakers

Sorry to hear about the passing of Gerry Marsden from Gerry and the Pacemakers. Gerry [...]

Big Brother is Watching You

On the news this morning was an article about HP laptops having a key logger [...]

Net Neutrality

Once again, politics threatens to impose restrictions and changes for commercial profit which could have [...]

How Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed

Grrrh! I could get really annoyed about this! Living and working in rural Stirlingshire has [...]

Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41551546 https://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows-phone-dead,news-25957.html http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-mobile-microsoft-just-put-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin/

Don Williams

Sad day today hearing about the passing of Don Williams after a short illness. Don [...]

DDoS hits websites

One of my hosting accounts, a VPS hosted by Dreamhost in Los Angeles, went down [...]

keep it simple, stupid!

When I started designing websites in the early 2000’s, simplicity was required. You just could [...]