Although I am a strong WordPress fan with several wordpress sites, which apart from basic set up require no Web knowledge to use, I wanted to learn the language of the Web, specifically XHTML and CSS.
I have three reasons for doing this :-

To be able to make basic changes to the WordPress themes I use
To be able to make my own websites from scratch
To enhance my understanding of the internet, websites, etc

I chose the book Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML for this after reading several Amazon reviews and …

Visiting a friend yesterday I discovered Spotify.  Its a little hard to explain what Spotify is in one sentence so I’ll just use the description from their website.
What is Spotify
Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.
There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for …

Recently I’ve heard of an unusually high number of friends who have had computer issues which lead them to lose data.  This has caused me to question how I back up my data and how to safeguard it.
In the past I have experienced this myself having my main hard drive fail.  I was fortunate at this time that I had a second external hard drive which was real-time synchronising all of my files.  However while that is fine for hardware failures it wouldn’t protect me from Viruses or Natural Disasters …

As a few of you will know I have been “tweeting” on Twitter over the last few weeks (Follow me here).  Several people have asked me what is Twitter or how can I use it so I thought I would write an explanation.
What is ?
Twitter is a Micro-Blogging tool which allows you to send and read user updates – known as Tweets (limited to 140 characters a Tweet).
Following People
To get the most out of Twitter you need to follow people.  Then everytime they Tweet it will appear on your twitter …

One of the RSS feeds I subscribe too is the Daily Dilbert.  I enjoyed today’s cartoon so much that I felt I had to put finger to keyboard.  Here it is…

I particularly liked this cartoon as I attended a seminar last year discussing customer reviews for eCommerce sites.  The most known use of customer reviews is Amazon.  I have been in the habit of rating everything I buy on Amazon, it is quick an easy to do by just clicking a star or if you have longer you can write …