Sitemap - 2024 - [Autosave is for Wimps]

It's the healing hands of guru Dabbs... again!

Update the 'printer driver'? What, are you from the past?

108 years later, where are the pyrotechnic video effects for Zoom calls?

In happier times? Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT "BOLLOCKS"

Humans programmed us into this mess. Can they code a way out?

It's artificial! It's intelligent! And it's gone bonkers... in MY HOME!

Diary of a report writer and his big break into bad business

You can't plug that thing in there, young man! Ooh fancy

My name is Dabbsy and I am an emailoholic

You have a ‘quick question’? Oh good, I have a couple of hours

No more WFH, guys. Shame they ditched all those door passes, eh?

On the couch with an AI robo-doc asking me very personal questions

History Lesson 1: Beware of geeks bearing gifts, especially if it's Apple

What to do with those rubbish IT gadget freebies you’ve been given? Well… Christmas is coming!

Things used to be better, or worse, or the same

Ransomware wouldn’t be so bad if your data wasn't so easy to kidnap

Switch off the mic if it makes you feel better – it'll make no difference

Like rats to the river, we follow AI’s dopey pied piper

Smart hardware’s all the same: don’t say I didn’t warn you about the extra costs

Put your private parts on display to please junk-tracking employers

Magstripe is dead but let’s not lose sleep over it

How many FLOPPIES do I need for 16 MILLION image files?

Darth Vader was just a weed in cool black

Blow the fluff from my crack, tickle my balls and other mouse-cleaning tips

Double-click? Oh don’t be so conventional

A lazy fortune-teller’s guide to registering with the French tax office

You hired me and forgot about it. That’s MY fault is it? Of course it is

Fetch my keys will you? They’re in the fridge

Switched-off voice assistant blurts out nonsense while I watch TV

My door is so smart it keeps out the riff-raff (such as me)

Enough sleep monitors! Let’s have some useful tech wearables for a change

Innovation, permission and Sam Altman's groceries: all up for grabs, apparently

Where, oh where, to implant my employee microchip?

How dare they ban China's TikTok?! That's the kind of thing they'd do in, er, China

Look, pal, it’s YOUR password so it’s YOUR responsibility (even if WE lost it)

Client forgot to mention that 'essential' feature. Again.

Kerbside flytip or museum exhibit: that's where we're headed, IT comms peeps

Mark my words, GenAI critters… if you know what I mean

The day I almost pinned my butt as a Google Maps landmark

Why are you holding your phone like that?

Hide your extramarital affair by doing it online. What could possibly go wrong?

Greetings from the Leap-ocalypse bunker. Did I miss anything?

My life story, told as a trail of rubbish PCs

Wish away tech billionaires’ obsessions with home-grown demonic spells

Video ads: The only good autoplay is a dead autoplay

Every generation invents new ways to fall off the shoulders of giants

"Boundary pushing" in-car stereo tech is driving me up the wall

How many screen-taps to get through your customer funnel? Three? Five?