One of the side-effects of working in the IT industry is the constantly shifting sea of technology-related buzzwords that you have to navigate on a daily basis.

I discovered this weekend that somehow or other I had been paying £7.95 a month for an online service from Which (noble guardian of the consumer), not once but twice. Quite why we were shelling out over fifteen quid a month for a service we were unaware of consuming was something of a mystery which needed to be investigated immediately.

I recently visited a friend who was bemoaning the fact that her teenage son was becoming a virtual hermit, spending most of his waking hours and several hours when he should have been sleeping, playing Grand Theft Auto on his PlayStation 3.