Unless you have been living under a rock recently, you will have noticed the fervent debate and campaigning over the Digital Economy Bill which was made law today. Back in Q1 2009, the EU Data Retention Directive also became law in the UK, and it would appear that as long as you follow it, you mitigate the liability of operating a public hotspot. Here’s how.

This isn’t a post aimed at sysadmins, as they will know this already. However, it’s a post intended for a business owner or decision maker who places the contract for web hosting, and is intended to highlight at a high level some of the security risks that exist to their websites just by being on the Internet.

The auto-upgrade feature of Wordpress can stall on Cloud hosting. Here’s how to quickly and easily fix it to save time and effort.

I read the recent RWW Article which is a response to Jaron Lanier’s book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto”, in which he makes the case for a more humanistic approach to Internet technology. Lanier rails against web 2.0, which he calls at the start of the book “a torrent of petty designs” and “freedom [...] more for machines than people.” This is my response to the RWW article.