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...

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...

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...

If you've ever started or worked in a business you'll know how important referrals are. Before I moved to Tasmania my business was...

Recently one of my customers came to me with a very strange problem... His Sent Items folder in his email just kept growing and growing....

This is a tough one to write about because it still makes my head hurt. Sometimes I get called to help people who know everything. It is...

Not long after I arrived in Tasmania I was doing repeat jobs for a business near Margate. They were a reasonable size business with more...

In my line of work, every now and then something mindbogglingly weird and unpleasant happens to me. I assume these things happen to all...

For nearly 10 years I have been working with (read: helping/volunteering) Scott Dufty at the KCEC / KHBEC with business events,...

When did being so needy become attractive? "How did we do?" "Your opinion is important to us." "Your feedback is critical to our...

These days many of us have more than one computer - a desktop and a laptop, and many other devices besides. Across these devices we'll...

When you register a new business name with ASIC in Australia certain elements of your registration become public knowledge. This is done...

Humans have wanted personal flight for a very long, very long time. Science fictions movies promised us jet packs and flying cars and, to...

Every now and then someone has to be cut out of our computer lives for one reason or another. I am not here to judge or probe why. What I...

I may have ranted about this before (there's no "may" about it), but shit web sites cost customer and business alike. I've just spent and...

Yes there are still client / server systems around and when you are running a small business on one it can be tempting to cut corners....

Last week I was cleaning my bathroom and skanking to the sounds of Madness. My height necessitates a bit of jumping when doing housework...

One day a while back I went to the garage to find a puddle of water under my car. That’s never a good sign but to my fortune this turned...

If there’s one common theme that has run through my 30+ years of IT career it is how badly data backups are done and how often the...