Despite occasionally enjoying this site and subscribing to this Oracle focused offshoot, I always laid awake at night, endlessly tossing and turning, wondering what this curious and cryptic acronym WTF stood for. I need wonder no more. Technorati have finally put me out of my misery. WTF actually stands for ‘Where’s The Fire ?’ My immediate reaction was ‘WTF ?’ No wonder Technorati killed that product at birth.

I was vaguely aware that NTL merged with Telewest last year but a glossy black/red envelope, announcing the brave new world of ‘Virgin Media’, took me a little off guard this morning. I sincerely hope that my existing Telewest service is not affected by NTL’s recent acquisition of Virgin Mobile. My Telewest broadband service works fine (apart from the occasional self-inflicted glitch with my wireless router). My Telewest email works fine (apart from a recent problem where the POP3 server times out on the first connection and works perfectly thereafter). ...

After my recent brush with disaster, I realised that my, err, backup strategy relied on me remembering to perform a manual, occasional Wordpress export or a database backup. This was acceptable while I was messing around with this blogging lark but now I realise that it would be a little disappointing to lose the entire contents of my blog. While Bluehost run backups (which have saved my skin once), it would be foolish to completely rely on my hosting provider and the height of stupidity to rely on me ! ...

Excellent article by Seth Godin about the perils of PowerPoint. Just look what it did to the poor pigeon.

Meet Dan Morrison. His main aim in life is :- Currently dedicated to linking all IT professionals together in one network so they can find each other and communicate. Don’t scoff. Dan already has 93,822 connections (including me) on ITtoolbox so he’s very nearly half way there. Dan - Let me know when you’ve finished and I’ll have that list of email addresses in exchange for a box of vintage 1980’s records.