One of the trials of being a human is that you can't trust other humans, at least not until you've got to know them, and sometimes not even then. People you meet may well be lovely ...

As the editor of this site, you might think that I have the latest computer equipment and bleeding edge office software. You'd be wrong. I realised long ago that any time-saving features offered by a new ...

One of the nice things about living by the coast and running your own business is that you can take the afternoon of your birthday off and sit on the beach in the Spring sunshine. Don't ...

A letter dropped through my letterbox the other day. Nothing surprising in that, obviously, but the envelope of this one caught my eye. On it was written, in large letters, "Will you send a blind child ...

It's been nearly four years since this site last had a redesign. I had grown rather fond of the simplistic style, of the various coloured boxes that made up the slimline, fast downloading design that's been ...

Most techies know that e-mail, instant messaging and other Internet-borne communication is never truly anonymous. They also know that it can hang around for a long time, loitering on backup disks, mail servers and local hard ...

About a decade ago I worked on one of the most addictive computer games of its time; SimCity 2000. I did a bit of localisation and product development, but a lot of technical support, and answering ...

Numerous reports into the life of the average British office worker have shown that people in this country work harder than anyone outside of a Bolivian salt mine and plough through, on average, 237 e-mails per ...

Having recently moved house and thinking that it might be nice to have a decent home Internet connection rather than two yoghurt pots and a piece of string (or dial-up, as it's sometimes known), I entered ...

IT Reviews went live six years ago this week. I believe that Internet years are like dog years - they're worth seven human years each - so this site is actually approaching the ripe old age ...

On April 1st at 8pm, tickets for the Glastonbury Festival 2004 went on sale. Potential buyers had two options; the phone line or the Web site. To reduce the chances of touts getting their hands on ...

In 1998, when this site first went live, traffic to these pages at Christmas was only around 10 percent of normal levels. Fair enough, you might think - there are better things to do with your ...

I can rarely be accused of shouting at my television set, because I haven't owned one for a few years, but when visiting a friend's house and seeing Intel's laughable "Wireless broadband on top of a ...

A few months ago I wrote about the perils of working too hard. In September this year, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) promoted "Work-life balance week" in an attempt to curb the ...

It's not so long ago that I wrote about 'SpouseTracker', an imaginary system that would allow you to type your partner's mobile phone number into a Web site in order to find their location in the ...

It's not often that the UK benefits from a run of decent, sunny weather. But we're doing fairly well in this respect at the moment, and global warming may increase our chances of fine weather in ...

Hard work isn't all it's cracked up to be. Quite apart from the fact that working your proverbials off is likely to result in stress, depression, heart disease and possibly even some types of cancer, it ...

A couple of years ago I commented that the Web was little more than a glorified library, with many of the same benefits and disadvantages. Since then, though, I've changed my mind. Arguably the Web's most ...

Since I last wrote an editorial on the spam menace, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse, with the vast majority of e-mail users now affected by regular offers of prescription drugs, pornography, ...

Strange as it may seem, Christmas can be one of the most stressful times of the year. People who spend the rest of their time successfully juggling the demands of home life, work and play often ...