http://www.pmtate.co.uk PMTate BSc FCA Website Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I must be getting old, Windows 1.0 was released on 20th November 1985 hence it's twenty three years old today! It’s nearly as old as my youngest daughter! Have I really been playing with GUI interfaces for that long! See Steve Lamb’s blog here, he references a ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/11/happy-birthday-windows/ After a two month wait (negotiating with phone companies) I have now got my Samsung Omnia, lovely phone but so far two things wrong: Screen goes blank and phone appears dead, but is still alive! Seems others have the same problem, my research obviously wasn’t good ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/11/samsung-omnia/ My heartfelt congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and McLaren on winning the 2008 Formula One World Drivers Championship , although not sure my nerves really with stood the last few laps! (picture clipped from excellent www.itv-f1.com website coverage, long may it continue, the BBC will have to work very hard to meet ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/11/congratulations-to-lewis-hamilton/ In a post on Business Blog Consulting Krishna De of BizGrowthNews has written a very good article about why you should put a blog within your site, like this, rather than having the blog hosted on one of the many hosting platforms. Graham Jones of http://www.grahamjones.co.uk slightly ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/10/re-why-blogger-is-no-good-for-business-blogging/ Organisations have to be careful of how they dispose of any IT equipment, not just their PC’s and hard disks, anything with writeable flash memory that can store settings can be a security threat. In this ITPro article, “Second-hand VPN leads to security breach at ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/disposal-issues/ As a member of the Institute’s member communications working group I would welcome your views on the revamped icaew.com website I believe it looks crisper and fresher, but can you use it better than before? The problem used to be that there was so much ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/icaewcom/ I wasn’t sure whether to comment on the horrendous decision in Spa exacerbated by the non argument in Paris. If I argued in favour of Lewis/McLaren then I would be a partisan Englishman, if I spoke up for Ferrari then the same. BUT I felt I had to put ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/25-seconds-in-spa/ Why oh why do mobile phone contracts have to be so difficult to evaluate. My contract is up for renewal, so far my provider has admitted to making several mistakes in the history he has pulled up making each quote he has given me next to useless. I make ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/mobile-phone-contracts/ This page was pointed out by F1Wolf on Twitter under the tweet ”can we get rid of mad Max, please” and I must say I agree. He now wants one engine across all formula 1 teams, my understanding and enthusiasm for ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/max-f1/ Having just spoken to a Fox FM (Oxfordshire) reporter I thought I should put my views up here. Background In 2002 I found that in my small rural Oxfordshire village I was missing out on high speed Internet access. The maximum I could get was 128k with my ... http://www.pmtate.co.uk/2008/09/next-generation-broadband/