Donating your unwanted IT for reuse in Africa

While we are all used to working with cutting edge (or close to cutting edge!) IT, this is less often the case in developing economies. However, the team at Computer Aid are working to change this and we recently launched [...]

When you have had enough of working!

My time wasting top ten… Play with a virtual spider! http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ Just bored? Try http://www.bored.com/ Feeling like you don’t know who you are or why you are here? Try http://www.allthetests.com/ Need to work on you IQ? Try http://www.braingle.com/ Really, really [...]

Watch out IT World!

With India and China now working in league, where will the European IT world be in 5yrs from now, or even you? Putting their previous problems behind them, India  are investing heavily in Chinese IT companies, and China themselves are [...]

Hashbang and the One Page Website

The American blog network Gawker Media (Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker…) launched a bold re-design of its websites last week. Gone is the fairly standard news/blog style website and in its place a single page website that loads articles without requiring the [...]

Tweet, Twitter and Blogs.. And a four letter word!

Being aboard for so long, you yearn for something British.  Sorry HBO is American, the BBC World Service seems to be stuck in the 1970s?  Forget having a Sunday roast, and so even something as simple as ordering a burger in [...]

The cost of going to Uni and working in IT.

Most already know that I feel most Uni IT courses are sadly out of date and out of tune with the real world of IT.  As some have already said an IT degree in Twitter or Tweet-ing isn’t any good [...]