After one of the longest home purchases ever thanks to the difficulty in getting mortgages at the moment, I finally moved into my new home last Monday.  Packing for the move and unpacking after the move effectively took me out of action every evening for the last two weeks as I couldn’t get the time [...]

I read yesterday an annoucenment by Woolworths who are the UK’s biggest music retailer, that they will stop selling CD singles. Eight million CD singles were sold in Britain last year, compared to 72.6 million music downloads.
Woolworths currently sells one in three of all audio CDs in the UK, but said it believes competition [...]

I know that you shouldn’t ‘applaud’ criminals, but sometimes you can’t help but admire their ingenuity.
Master criminal Mitsuhisa Kobayashi thought he had a foolproof way to steal cars. He would get his ex-wives to rent cars in which he would install a GPS tracking device, as well as making a copy of the key. [...]

I grew up in Nottingham so I’ve always been a big fan of Alton Towers, which was just ‘down the road’. For those of you who don’t know what Alton Towers is, it’s the biggest and best theme park in the UK by miles, with over 2.5m visitors every year.
Alton Towers have just gone [...]

Although there’s a big and growing community of Windows Home Server users on the internet, I’ve yet to met one in the flesh.  Given that WHS has been in the wild for around 6 months now, I’m a bit surprised.  Yes, home servers are a ‘new’ concept, but I’d assumed that once users understood the [...]