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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Written – March 2022 Recently I’ve been getting quite het up and angry about a few YouTubers that I’ve been following happily for the last few years. The reason being that they keep repeating the same, what I shall call a mistake, over and over,…
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