Articles
Our published articles cover an array of IT industry issues ranging from the Internet and technological developments such as XML to security and website design.
This page features some of our current articles, but we have many more in our article archive.
Archived Articles for 2008
Back to Basics
Monday, 01 December 2008I have a theory about recessions - but before I start, I should say that this is based on no formal training in economics, is certainly an oversimplification of the situation, and is probably completely wrong. But it is comforting to note that in the last two respects at least it doesn't ...
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Customers - They're not just for Christmas!
Saturday, 01 November 2008The hectic part of my evening was drawing to a close: the kids were bathed and tucked up in bed; the other half was out at her art class; a roaring fire was now glowing across the room and a suitably large glass of red was in hand - perfect! So, there I was, suitably set up for the rest of ...
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The Internet Election
Friday, 03 October 2008After two years of speeches and slogans the dust is now settling on what has been dubbed the greatest political show on earth, the USA elections 2008. The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, is getting ready to move into his palatial new home and the political pundits ...
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Jobs for the Girls
Monday, 01 September 2008Recently we decided to organise a "girls night out" for the female members of PDMS, you know the sort of thing - the opportunity to generally put the world to rights over a meal and a few glasses of wine. When sending out the invite it struck me how much longer the e-mail distribution list ...
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Cloudy Weather
Friday, 01 August 2008Clouds are very much on my mind at present and I'm not just talking about the weather, appalling though this summer has been! In geek speak 'the cloud' is a universal metaphor for any aspect of computing or communications which is provided as a service usually via the Internet. This covers ...
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Tidy is a relative term
Saturday, 07 June 2008My Sister has just waltzed in and is flicking through a home furnishings brochure in the kitchen. On being told that I am trying to write an article about web design she rather dismissively asserts that she is more of a paper person. Having resisted the urge to suggest that she had better not ...
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Demystifying the Web
Thursday, 01 May 2008One of the side-effects of working in the IT industry is the constantly shifting sea of technology-related buzzwords that you have to navigate on a daily basis. And an undesirable side-effect of this (apart from a mild bout of nausea) is that innocent bystanders outside the industry, and ...
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Computer says Maybe
Tuesday, 01 April 2008What a joy! I discovered this weekend that somehow or other I had been paying £7.95 a month for an online service from Which (noble guardian of the consumer), not once but twice. Quite why we were shelling out over fifteen quid a month for a service we were unaware of consuming was something ...
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Could your PlayStation 3 help find a cure for cancer?
Saturday, 01 March 2008I recently visited a friend who was bemoaning the fact that her teenage son was becoming a virtual hermit, spending most of his waking hours and several hours when he should have been sleeping, playing Grand Theft Auto on his PlayStation 3. Her son, who had managed to tear himself ...
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Beauty Becomes a Beast
Friday, 01 February 2008The iPhone, is it really just a very sexy mobile phone, a real eye catching 'beauty'? Or…., is it in reality about to become a true 'beast' of a mobile business device? At Apples' recent iPhone roadmap announcement event (06/03/2008), Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) would certainly like us to ...
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