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Microsoft have acknowledged this is a bug, I just wish they would hurry up and fix it  Really annoying!

Absolutely, Paypal, banking or anything reliant on secure credentials. 

As with most security, most of it can be covered off with a little commonsense and being  a little streetwise.

Few people will be trying to hack your average home WiFi network, but make sure you do use complex passwords, use an up to date decent antivirus and malware (not a freebie one) and if you are sat in the Premier Inn using their WiFi, it's probably not the best time to check your online banking 

The bigger question is do you want to do business with someone you already know to be toxic and unpleasant?

Unless this is a unique and very niche, there are a multitude of opportunities out there.

Echo Izzy and make sure your opportunity is given the once over by an accountant. Better to find any skeletons now than have HMRC knocking at your door in 18 months time 

Hi Angela, tend to agree with Fish, look at magnetic signs. They are relatively inexpensive so minimal risk.

We did a taxi wrap years ago, it's very hard to attribute genuine customer sign ups and an expensive way to build brand. We also made the schoolboy error of putting a telephone number on the side. We got inundated with requests for a taxi  

You live and learn!

I dream of being 40

To be honest I cried at 30  In your teens it's expected you'll act like an idiot. In your 20's you're finding your feet and become an opinionated idiot. But by 30 the expectation is you're a responsible grown up, although in reality took me another ten years!

Then 40 arrives and you start reminiscing of the carefree 20 days. Your hair goes grey, or in my case just disappears. All youths have no discipline, education isn't what it was in my day and before you know it you've morphed into your parents.

Now with 50 knocking on the door I am now visually turning into an old fart although although my brain has rewired itself to convince me that nothing has changed and I'm still in my 20's 

I hear you had a surprise party, hope you enjoyed yourself and welcome to the old farts club 

Found a really useful resource online if you need help creating your social media profiles and need to know the dimensions of the images.

Louise Myers created the info graphic and she has lots of useful info and resources if you check out her page:
Louise Myers Visual Social Media 

There has been a lot of noise and hype about the WiFi WPA2 encryption vulnerability and I must admit I didn't really understand what the implications were or how worried we should be.

In a nutshell, the vulnerability is with the encryption handshake a device makes to the WiFi router. 

In simple terms the handshake is a series of messages a device (phone, laptop etc) needs to connect securely to a WiFi router. It goes like this:

1. hello world, I'm the WiFi router and anyone with the right password can connect.

2. Hello router I'm a trusted phone, can you send me the encryption key.

3. No probs phone here is the key.

4. Thanks Router got it, lets send lots of data securely.

The Krack Attack is where it makes the router resend message 3 (the encryption key) by inserting some noise, so the router thinks the phone didn't get message 4. At this point the router will reset the encryption variables  which is where there is the potential for another device to decrypt or insert code.

In reality, few people really care about your home network, or even your office network. The real threat is more likely to be in public WiFi spots such as coffee houses, garages while you get your car serviced, libraries etc. But as with any public network common sense and basic security will serve you well.

Don't browse or look at anything that's sensitive in a public network. eg don't do your online banking in the Coffee Shop!

If you want to learn more about it and fancy going a bit techy, there is a great video to watch below.

Uh oh we're heading to that time of year again when we get bombarded with promotions and special one day only offers, as the retailers fight it out to boost their annual sales.

I've just heard there is also a Green Monday,  apparently the 2nd Monday in December.

Maybe we should just make every day in December a special shopping day 

So are you as cynical as me or do you look forward to collecting genuine bargains. From a business point of view do you take advantage of the hype and cash in?

Has it worked well for you in the past? I do you like the idea of a Who Cares Tuesday as an antidote to the Christmas hype, but I guess my attitude would be different if I was selling relevant products and could cash in 

This has been a really annoying issue over the last couple of weeks. As soon as you open an attachment using Microsoft Outlook, a prompt appears asking you to reenter your password.

Tried all the usual things like removing the credentials from credentials manager and a bit of googling showed up lots of other people having the same problem.

The issue seems to be related to Office 365 and a recent update (thanks Microsoft ). But there doesn't seem to be any resolution. People have eve tried re-installing office, deleting profiles and really intrusive heavy handed measures, all to no avail. 

The only work around I've spotted is to roll back the last update, but I can't be bothered. I'm hoping MS must be about to release a new fix.

So is anyone else having the same problem? Anyone received any magic fixes? 

Nothing at all, just transparency. Just make it clear you aren't actually in London.

Unfortunately we get absolutely inundated with overseas spam and SEO style listings claiming to be located in the UK, some even use fake addresses. Our filters automatically delete 99% of it, the rest are flagged. 

In this case if you genuine, then apologies all round.