James was another elderly customer of mine. He died in April 2021. James was a relatively new customer to me. I started seeing him...

Michael was an elderly customer of mine. He died in December of 2020. In the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic so I hadn't seen him for a...

In mid 1988-ish I moved from my first full time job to a new job. It was with a company called TCG. I've briefly mentioned them before...

For those of you who have been following my blog for a while, you may recall my post entitled "Buying second hand computers - just...

Quite often I get calls from customers telling me their computer is suddenly misbehaving badly. There can be a bazillion reasons for...

These days we are being forced, and choosing, to make many of our purchases online. From paying bills to buying trinkets on eBay, more...

I'm not going to bang on about the old days. I'm just going to say that these days everybody needs at least 2 email addresses. I've...

Every so often the things designed to protect are the very things that kill us. I was reminded of that this week when an article about...

You know how every time you need to talk to call a company for service you have to do battle with automated systems designed to fob you...

I knew my 7 and a half year old laptop was on borrowed time. If you've asked me about how long your laptop would last I would have said...

Apple are quite ruthless with making their old tech obsolete and unsupported. I've even had trouble getting the SAME operating system...

Recently my wife and I noticed that we were getting scam phone calls from numbers that were only a digit or two away from our own...

In the past I have written about using Ubuntu and other Linux distributions to give old PCs new life and to replace Windows when a valid...

In the COVID / post-COVID world you'd think the businesses that survived would know how to handle online sales. But this obviously isn't...

...they keep calling back and pretending to be someone else. Recently a customer of mine was taken in by a scam caller. The scammers...

It seems every other post on social media is asking us to participate in some fun and seemingly innocent game. While this may, MAY, be...

When I first worked in an office I'd occasionally need to store something in the fridge. One day I saw a set of keys in the fridge....

In the late 80's I had a job where the company I worked for were so cheap they couldn't see how much money they were wasting. My job was...

When the pandemic struck a lot of people were suddenly out of work. Strangely, a lot of businesses actually did very well out of it. Some...

When I first started in computers as a young high school student, a big part of the attraction was the graphics and games. The first...