Internet

My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]

reCaptcha gone mad

I greatly admire the reCaptcha project including the less popular reCaptcha Mailhide. reCaptcha is really clever as, whilst on the one hand providing verification for Website content, on the other and at the same time digitized content that optical character recognition (OCR) software can’t decifer is solved by humans. reCaptcha provides a great service to character [...]

Why I moved from Firefox

This Post could also be titled “Why I now use Google Chrome” as I’ve recently done something a few weeks back I would have thought extremely unlikely. I used and loved Mozilla Firefox for many years and then I was forced to reinstall the OS and software onto my laptop due to a trojan. The [...]