It was a quiet Tuesday morning in May, just after a bank holiday Monday. I was getting on with my database of databases: a database that held information about the databases we supported, where they were, who used them and how many . . . that sort of thing. Today this would be referred to [...]

No, that’s not what ABBS stands for. In the US, Amazon launched the Kindle – a portable eBook reader – with a huge catalogue of eBooks that can be downloaded. However, a mistake was made and a supplier electronically published “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell although they did not have the copyright for it. When [...]

“What is a Microsoft certification worth?” That seems to be a common question at the moment. Some purists advocate that the cert is becoming worth less because people are using so-called brain dumps to memorise the answers to questions. They say that you shouldn’t get a cert unless you have x number of years experience [...]