Reality Check

The church I attend has two websites. One a full blown ecommerce site which has been up and running for the past year or more to support the christian book import business we run and the second which is...
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AVG Rescue CD

I recall a day, not too long ago, that there used to be a fair number of “rescue” tools out and about on the market. My preferred go to tool of the day was FProt. These days I didn’t...
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Windows 7 Tips #5

One of the most annoying aspects of Windows 7 (I find) is that lots of software doesn’t autostart or autorun properly. Let me explain with an example … do you use Piriform’s excellent...
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Spying on Staff 2 – Benefits

So in part one of this mini-epic I responded to a comment author on another blog. In it, I addressed the, as I see it, flawed thinking in their approach to the use of filtering software or appliances. In...
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Spying On Staff

John over at Church IT has put up a short post about “Monitoring Your Church Staff’s Internet Usage“. Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that I’m a wee bit passionate...
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Technical Certifications

I’ve long been an advocate of people not needing ‘formal qualifications’ to get into the computer industry. And by formal I mean university degrees or 48 GCSE’s (or whatever your...
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