Create IT Blog- thoughts on the state of IT

  • Upgrades - worth it?  14/09/2005
    Every year or two, companies like Microsoft want us to update our software (and often our hardware). Is it really worth it?
  • Hasta la Vista  01/03/2007
    Windows Vista, is Microsoft's latest Windows, but you may not want to rush out and buy it just yet.
  • The end of Windows 98  03/10/2007
    Microsoft has withdrawn support for updates to Microsoft Windows 98 and ME. What does this mean if you're still running one of these versions?
  • GNU GPL  25/02/2008
    The GNU General Public Licence and Lesser General public licence exist with the noble aim of keeping software ideas public and freely available to all, but sometimes this isn't a good thing.
  • Bad Journalism  30/09/2008
    Today I opened my local community newspaper to read an idiotic diatribe by someone who claims to be an IT journalist. In theory the article was about Linux. In reality it didn't really say anything about Linux, and was full of stereotypes that might
  • Vista Sucks!  17/11/2008
    After a year on the market, I finally get my own copy of Vista, and soon discover it's every bit as bad as all the nightmare tales out there.
  • Bad Internet Journalism  27/05/2009
    Generally when I write opinion pieces, I write about technical issues, but today I simply have to comment on an absurd piece by a 'journalist' complaining about the internet.
  • Best License?  01/09/2010
    The software world seems to be divided into two camps, free open source software advocates, and proprietary closed software supporters, but maybe there should be another alternative.
  • Emusic + Wordpress =FAIL  04/12/2011
    Music download site Emusic rolled out a poorly implemented new site design based on Wordpress, which has left the site unusuable for several weeks.
  • Facebook Float Fail  06/02/2012
    Facebook won't be going away any time soon, but its supposed valuation of $100 billion definitely seems like it needs a bit of a reality check.
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