
| 14th September, 1999 | 11th September, 1999 |
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My Dad's Bigger Than Your DadIn the good old days of the Internet, when the anorak was king, creating a web site was a tricky business. It meant a process of "hand coding" the pages from scratch and even the simplest page needed a good deal of gobbledygook writing that was impenetrable by mere mortals... | There Are Only 3 Months In An Internet YearIn the IT industry there is only one thing you can rely on staying the same and that's the fact that everything will change. Nowhere does technology advance more rapidly than on the Internet. As a colleague succinctly put it "There are only about three months in an Internet year... |
| 3rd September, 1999 | 2nd September, 1999 |
Which PentiumIII To BuyLast week saw the arrival of the Pentium III and a race between the PC manufacturers to produce the first PIII based computers. The first to land on these shores was the Fijitsu PC sold by Tesco... | The Internet Still Works!Recently a small worry has been growing at the back of my mind. Was the Internet, where anoraks and academics once bathed in a sea of free information and exchanged the odd bit of pirated software, being turned into a vast wasteland of on-line corporate brochures... |
| 31st August, 1999 | 24th August, 1999 |
Listen CarefullyWelcome to the Tomlinson View. Please press the hash key on your phone right now. If you are interested in current IT issues please press one. If you are interested in shabby customer service please press two. If you are willing to wait hours in a holding queue to speak to a human being, press three now... | Laugh In The Face Of VirusesThere is nothing wrong with a little healthy paranoia, but the recent increase in virus anxiety is unfounded. I don't know who 'spooked the herd', but everyone seems to be running around telling stories of vicious virus attacks... |
| 17th August, 1999 | 6th August, 1999 |
Bill The AltruistIsn't it annoying when you think you know someone and then they go and do something that, in your opinion, is totally out of character? Suddenly you find yourself obliged to un-pigeonhole that individual and make a totally new assessment of their true worth... | The Career Limiting E-mailHave you ever sent an e-mail and instantly regretted it? You wished you had counted to ten, or taken a stroll down to the... |