David Kitchen

It's not often that I find a website that does what I think it should do rather than what others have acclimatised themselves from expecting. One such example happened just a few minutes ago. I have an image, and don't know where it comes from, and what I wanted to do is to search the web and to find the artist and the name of the image.

It seems that in March 2008 the voluntary banking code that banks in the UK comply with was changed. Part of this change includes this paragraph: Online banking 12.9 Online banking is safe and convenient as long as you take a number of simple precautions. Please make sure you follow the advice given below. * Keep your PC secure. Use up-to-date anti-virus and spyware software and a personal firewall. And a little further ...

I was recently contacted by American Express as part of a market research thing. The market research involved several members of the market research company interviewing me with a film crew present, and some other people who I guess were employees of either AMEX or the market research company witnessing proceedings.

And what do I even mean by that? Well what I've been longing for is an on-line store that I can use for the majority of my purchases. The problem I seem to have here is that my purchases are so varied. I also suffer because I am fussy about which sites to use as they have to be designed well and have high usability in mind. So, what on ...

I've got something in the region of 17,000 emails stored at home on my Windows PC in a program called The Bat! It's a great program, I really love it and my love for it has been the biggest delaying factor in my moving to Linux on a permanent basis. Recently I've been using 4 PC's, all Windows and Linux, and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get to ...