Paul McNamara

Articles by Paul McNamara

Do downtime numbers really tell the story?

Four million days. That

A program for e-mail addiction stumbles

Hi, my name is Paul, and I am an e-mail addict.

Prepaid credit cards – a double-edged sword?

While offering a measure of protection from online identity theft, prepaid credit cards - for those without bank accounts and teens without self-control - may trigger other problems.

Wikipedia has to do what it has to do…

Wikipedia is always in the middle of some brouhaha or another, and last month was a double-header.

Ho, ho, no!

For the love of St. Nicholas, do not let anyone hang holiday decorations willy-nilly about the workplace lest you render the office Wi-Fi net as discombobulated as Santa's sleigh without Rudolph.

Spammers dodging OCR

Spammers have begun slipping their junk past optical character recognition software through a variety of animated .GIF cut-and-paste techniques, according to John Graham-Cumming, an antispam activist who maintains The Spammers

IT professionals on IM: Necessary or not?

This exercise started with the assumption that I

Dot-com cops still asleep on the beat

Someone ought to be hopping-up-and-down mad about this

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