Archive for the 'Web' Category

Today I don’t understand my digital life

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Stop the digital world I think I wanna get off … Why am I posting this? What’s it all about? Facebook? Twitter? Second Life? Blogging? Very suddenly today I just don’t get it anymore… I’m writing as always sitting in my office. I   have a dozen applications open, some work, some not, some social, [...]

Demon Webhosting? Stay Away!

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I’ve worked with a lot of web hosting companies, large and small, over the years, but I’ve got to say my worst ever experiences have been with Demon Internet.  And the very worst part is that it’s still ongoing! Last year Demon’s hosting platform went down for a couple of weeks.  Now there’s not a webhost [...]

I got the ‘No RSS’ blues …

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Has anyone else noticed themselves getting a sort of ‘sad feeling’ when you visit a website that you think is cool only to find that it has no RSS feed.  And no blog.  And there is no forum.  No mailing list.  No dates that show when it was last updated?  Gah!  It could have been here for eons! [...]

Deceptive Web Ads

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I don’t like deceptive web ads.  The web of course has had a well-deserved bad reputation for dodgy advertising over the years, so much so that many people have popup blockers and ad stoppers to prevent seeing the ads at all.  In recent years however advertisers and site owners have cleaned up their act a [...]