9 Common Excel Mistakes

We were reminded of the risks of messing up spreadsheets in a recent blog post at Oracle: The scary fact they quote is that 88% of all spreadsheets are wrong! The consequences of relying on bad information as a result can be insane! That reminded me of a couple of...

Feeling less Vulnerable

When the Microsoft cloud had a momentary failure in early May,  most of us had an uncomfortable hour with limited access to our files and systems.  It seems that some red-faced engineer at Microsoft made a simple small mistake that impacted systems all around the...

RIP Windows 7, SQL 2008 and friends

It’s time to say goodbye to Windows 7 The end of the (support) road is approaching rapidly.  They are over ten years old which is ancient in IT terms. If you think about tech around your home or in your daily life, then its quite understandable that these...

The alarming business models of cyber-criminals

Cyber-crime has become big business It’s organised, and the purveyors are shameless in their determination to steal from all of us. Heaven only knows where they get their names from.  One group we recently became aware of is called ‘PINCHY SPIDER’,...