Toms View of the World

I was just thinking to myself - my first “proper” PC had 40Mb of disk space, and 2Mb of RAM, was very heavy, and only had a 256 colour display - now, 13 years later 88| I have a mobile phone with a better display, more storage and a faster processor than that old PC - plus it fits in my pocket and runs for days off a single battery charge.

Who’d have thought back then that you could carry a whole gigabyte of storage on a keyring. Technology is still moving on apace, where will we be in another 10 years?

I hate dealing with “customer service centres”. Even ones that haven’t been outsourced to Bangalore (although dealing with call centers which have is even worse)

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I just bought a new domain name - at the moment there’s nothing there, but eventually it’ll point back here too - it’s http://www.tommarshall.me.uk

Don’t bother going there, it’s not going to be working, and won’t have anything there for a while, but I wanted to grab it before someone else beat me to it!

Is this the worlds smallest club?

Earlier this week, I got to see the touring production of Starlight Express - The Third Dimension in Bristol.
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Mozilla.org have released a new Security Patch for Firefox. This security patch is aimed to prevent URL spoofing used extensively by Phishing scams using International characters to fake domains so they look right in the address bar, but are actually very slightly different becuase they use international characters which look the same to you or me, but to a computer, are totally different.

The UK Government has launched a new website to help home computer users with PC Security - all written in plain English, and including an alerting service to keep you updated on new threats.
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