Category: blog

Why I got Equality and Inclusion Completely Wrong

Written – July 2022 There is a lot of talk these days about equality, diversity and inclusion.  It’s almost as if a light has come on and the people of the world have suddenly decided this is a subject worth paying attention to.  Alternatively it…

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How I Got My Start As An Author

Written – July 2022 As of the time of writing this I have written more than twenty books and am still writing more, so I’m often asked how I got my start as an author.  Well funnily enough, as these things often do, it all…

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Starlink Satellite Broadband? Oh, if I Musk!

Written – July 2022 I have had a couple of problems over the last year and a half.  During the autumn of 2020 I purchased a cottage in the middle of the French countryside, literally in the middle of nowhere… my nearest neighbour is a…

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The Day I *Really* Got to Feed Back to Microsoft

Written – June 2022 I’ve been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awardee now since 2010, which is a long time.  In more than a decade I’ve had the opportunity to get many hundreds of online briefings from different product groups at Microsoft’s global headquarters…

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The US-Centric Tech View, And Why It Annoys Me

I don’t often take to these pages to rant about a subject that annoys me, but the USA annoys me.  Okay so that’s an oversimplification as I’ve just returned from a very successful business trip to Microsoft in Redmond, Washington State.  This is one of…

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Astro Slide, Have Planet Computers Nailed It?

Written: May 2022 For those of you who read my website blog regularly, you will know that since my late teens and early twenties, I have been a huge fan of handheld computing.  I have my own personal computer museum in my home office that’s…

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Why We Need to Push Harder for Right to Repair

Written – April 2022 Many of you will know me as the author of The Green IT Guide (Apress, 2022) in which I talk about a wide range of subjects including the importance of Right to Repair.  If you haven’t heard about Right to Repair I…

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Are Cookies and Online Tracking Okay?

Written – April 2022 The Internet is free to use, that’s a good thing, right?  Okay so we all pay a monthly fee to our broadband or fibre internet service provider (ISP) and to our mobile / cellular network, but once we’re online we don’t…

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The Dumbphone Option

As we live in an ever-more connected world, we’ve found that we’re being bombarded by notifications and messages all the time, and all day and all night.  Much of this is trying to draw our attention to social media, which frankly has a much bigger…

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Why Right to Repair is Crucial for the World

Written – April 2022 How many times in the last decade have you cracked or smashed the screen on your smartphone, or perhaps dropped your laptop and broken it?  I remember a time a few years ago when a friend went on a fairground ride…

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