General | Octagon Technology http://jeremycatton.co.uk 01522 797520 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:43:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 http://jeremycatton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-Logo-32x32.png General | Octagon Technology http://jeremycatton.co.uk 32 32 Electronic dumpster diving – what are YOU throwing away? http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2023/08/17/electronic-dumpster-diving-what-are-you-throwing-away/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:43:58 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=9340

Into the bin it goes ! It is generally recommended that when you throw away house rubbish that you do not include intact personal information. To avoid electronic dumpster diving and people getting your (PII) such as bank accounts, NI numbers, ID and such. This is because naughty people can and will look through bins …

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]]> My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy Podcast – Show 001 now available http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/11/12/my-heads-a-bit-fuzzy-podcast-show-001-now-available-mhabf-mhabf/ Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:32:46 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=1088 Darren from Develop and Promote and I launched the podcast last night at the Business Club, with a presentation during the meeting. Diana and Lizzie were there as well, promoting it and explaining to members what the show is about. There was plenty of interest and a good response to the “distinctive” name, with a …

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]]> Just a quick reminder… My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy is nearly here http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/11/08/just-a-quick-reminder-my-heads-a-bit-fuzzy-is-nearly-here-mhabf-developpromote-busclublincs/ Fri, 08 Nov 2013 07:17:59 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=1083 We are going to launch our new podcast, with Develop and Promote at the Business Club this Monday. This week Lizzie and I are talking about passwords. Next week we are going to start on search engine optimisation and the week after that it is “what is a good data backup”. If you go to …

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]]> Recording and mixing the podcast – Guitar George @MHaBF http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/11/07/recording-and-mixing-the-podcast-guitar-george-mhabf/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:00:30 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=1078 My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy Podcast With the podcast launch coming up on Monday, i thought I would publish this photo of George (www.guitar-george.co.uk) mixing the show for us. read more here. Thanks George for all your help and support in this project. Clive

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]]> Popular passwords http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/11/06/popular-passwords/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:40:58 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=1066 With the launch of our new podcast My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy – which will be looking at passwords – this article shows the problems with poor passwords. BBC News – Analysis reveals popular Adobe passwords. My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy is a weekly podcast jointly sponsored by Octagon Technology and Develop and Promote. Each …

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]]> Photo of the Day http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/07/31/photo-of-the-day/ Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:40:02 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=881 Clive’s WordPress website, today features a “photo of the day” from one of our client’s sites – The Bell at Coleby, where we provide a variety of technical support services, including email support last weekend, when the business critical reservations email address was not working correctly.

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]]> Who? http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/07/22/who/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:48:44 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=874 I have spent a hot afternoon doing paperwork and writing emails – made tolerable by Sky Arts showing a Who Concert.

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]]> A tidy desktop http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2013/04/11/a-tidy-desktop/ Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:32:56 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=777 I was at a client’s today to fix a network problem and saw the tidiest computer desktop I have ever seen. The network issue was a broken cable, causing an intermittent fault, disconnecting the wired devices from the internet, it took an hour or so of tracing and testing cables to find the faulty one …

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]]> WordCamp UK 2012 http://jeremycatton.co.uk/2012/07/18/wordcamp-uk-2012/ Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:26:00 +0000 https://www.octagontech.com/?p=376 Now I am back from the weekend’s WordPress Conference and have caught up with this week’s work, it is time to start to implement some of the changes I learnt about. Top of the list is making my personal and business WordPress sites more secure – I know of several sites who did not make …

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