If someone else is responsible for the technology in your business, it can feel fantastic that you don’t have to worry about that part of your business operation. But whether that person is an employee, a freelance computer guy or a larger I.T. support company, the responsibility for this part of your business still ultimately lies…
Found a webpage crashing my Internet Explorer tab – how I got around it!
I have a business information blog website set as my homepage. Today when I started up Internet Explorer, the page content would start to load, I’d see all of the text, and then the tab would ‘crash’, stating that the page had caused a problem and it was going to try to reload it. After…
The trials & tribulations of a digital certificate file (aka why you should listen to your husband)
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I should have listened to my husband. Armed with my shiny new copy of Windows 7, I was keen to install it onto my laptop to see if the claims were true that this new operating system would give my laptop a new lease of life. “Remember to take an image* of it first”, called…
Windows Updates? Why bother?
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So many people I know are cynical about Microsoft’s ‘Windows Updates’ .. that is, if they even know it exists. Valiant attempts by Microsoft to make these updates deploy automatically (to your internet-connected PC) have hit some snags – the installations don’t always work and sometimes they can even break the functionality of corporate applications. …
OK, Windows 7 it is.
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A lot has happened since my last blog entry. Mortgage approval, in-laws 7 week stay, birth of new baby, end of rental lease, moving back in with my parents and storing a houseload of stuff at a friend’s, oh and continuing to run our small business. So you’ll forgive me for not posting earlier 🙂 I…
Dear Mr Bank Manager (aka the ballad of the self-employed)
On most days I love being self-employed. I like the control I have over how my business operates. Whilst we’re still only a ‘micro business’ (read: no other ‘team members’ but us), it could be classed by some as a job. However, I get to set my own salary, my own hours, my own work…