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The thing is, I’ve read all of the articles about viruses, worms, adware and so on (and I’ve had my browser redirected a few times) but you never really think the worst will happen to you.Today I spent 5 hours trying to fix my daughters PC, which has become seriously infected in the very brief… Continue reading The Dangers of Windows

First off, don’t be expecting entries this frequent under normal circumstances, but I just came across something on J. Lewis’ website that is not to be missed. http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/spending_cash.html Do yourself a favour … make some time, make a nice cup of tea (or whatever tickles your tummy), sit down and have a nice chuckle. Here’s… Continue reading Winter Warmer

Well, there you go, I’ve been doing this 5 minutes and I manage to make a bit of an *rse of myself already. The posting below initially described some of Jonathan Lewis’ newsgroup postings as ‘incredibly obnoxious’ (although I was pretty complimentary afterwards). Jonathan queried this and so I tried to find a simple example.… Continue reading The Science of Blogging?

Oh, how could I have forgotten this one!

Ha, so much for curing my laziness! Anyway … Not long after I first started working with computers, I would regularly be involved in discussions about whether programming was an art or not. At the time I was working for a games company, writing ZX Spectrum games in Z80 Assembly Language and there was little… Continue reading Art, science and DBA craft

In an effort to combat my extreme laziness when it comes to updating web pages, I’m going to give this blogging lark a try. Generally, I can be relied on to rattle on about things, so if it really is just a case of typing some text, maybe I can keep it up to date.… Continue reading My first posting