I read a lot of web-based articles on my phone during the day. I don't object to advertising, and I understand that some publications rely on advertising for some of their income, but sometimes the quantity and style of adverts that are interleaved into the article can make it difficult to read.

I've used ad blockers in the past, which rely on installing software on your PC on phone, but a few months ago I discovered that you can filter out adverts at the router level using a different DNS server. Read more…

So, Facebook was fun for a while - about ten years ago. With a small group of friends on Facebook, we could joke, and moan, and say outrageous things online. We got angry at May, we got angry at Brexit, we got angry at Boris, and we got angry at Trump. We raged against injustice and animal torture and environmental destruction. We 'liked' art, and laughed at funny videos, and reminisced.Read more…

Well - pure battery electric cars are obviously electric cars, but even petrol and diesel cars need an electric motor to start them.Read more…

It’s often better to buy a refurbished Dell, HP or Lenovo PC from the original manufacturer. They are best placed to refurbish them, having a supply of second hand parts. (You can’t guarantee that third-party refurbishers will use original parts.) Read more…

We may work in a development environment where we are designing applications which need to access information through web services.

As part of the development process, we may be asked to design the interfaces – or APIs – to new web services. Read more…