At 6pm tonight Microsoft have promised to release a patch for the biggest security hole to be found in Windows Explorer for at least the…
Busy Dad, Software Developer & Business Owner
Month: December 2008
It’s often easy to forget that we were all beginners once. As part of an office clearout I’m donating all of our unread books, those…
Have you ever bought a product or service that worked perfectly well and then a new version is released that inexplicably stops working and develops a set of obvious and disastrous bugs, or have you ever heard of a software or media publisher who believes all their customers are potential thieves and have to jump through so many hoops that only real software pirates get to have any fun? Well, this has been happening with Abbey National’s recent online banking software upgrade this week and I’m totally unimpressed.
This evening I’ve been mostly writing Christmas cards. It’s a regular chore that comes around each time each year; at it’s more fun than filling out tax returns. Actually I do rather enjoy writing Christmas cards as it gives me another opportunity to connect with our customers. I rather think of “our” customers as “my” customers. It gives me the excuse to play with another new online toy – online postage printing.
We are passing on the 2.5% cut in VAT on all our products, including our “CIS Solver” Construction Industry Scheme Tax return software. The new…
