If you have Windows 7, you might be one of the people who have trouble with an update that doesn’t install properly.  There’s one just out from Microsoft that downloads all right, but when the PC next starts up and it says “Configuring Updates” it’ll take ages – and then say it’s failed.

If [...]

Hello – I’m hijacking Tim’s journal today because I’ve got something new for you.  I’m going to be putting up a series of “Words to the wise” – those technical words that sound really confusing at first, but are simple once someone’s just told you what they mean, in plain English.  Here’s the first [...]

I put up a quick question the other day, asking what everyone uses to access the internet. As you might have guessed, roughly half of members use a laptop, the other half use a desktop PC. Only a very few use a handheld gadget or mobile phone.

Which made me think – it’s all [...]

I’ve just added a new box to the Inner Circle webpage – over on the right there’s a box headed “A quick question”.  You can answer it by clicking on one (or more) of the answers and then clicking on “Vote” at the bottom of that box.

The idea is for me to change [...]