Dialogue Box 4.1: A unique peek at a bright LED future 
Video Last year, we wanted it. This year, we've got it. In the first of a brand new series of Dialogue Box, Charles and Rupert throw light on a revolutionary new LED technology that gives you more than just a glow [08 Jul 2008]
Computer blunders of the technologically inept 
Photo Over eight years as a PC technician at a major computer-retail store in the US, Rod Shelley documented all manner of operator-induced hardware misfortunes [16 Jul 2008]
- Eve of Distraction - 319762
Bletchley Park: The preservation challenge
Photo At the home of British WWII codebreaking efforts, the Bletchley Park Trust faces the challenge of renovating rotting buildings and developing poor infrastructure [11 Sep 2008]
- And the Gov spent how much on the LHC??? - thinkfeeldo
Bletchley Park calls for aid
Video Security experts and Bletchley Park directors discuss fundraising efforts to stop the deterioration of buildings at the historic code-breaking centre [12 Sep 2008]
Here Comes Everybody
Review Improved communications have widened the notion of business competition. This book documents the next stage: competitors who are as hard to compete with as the many-headed Hydra. [28 Jul 2008]
Security Engineering
Review The world has changed in the seven years since the first edition of this seminal book was published. Anyone involved in designing any kind of security system should read this second edition. [03 Oct 2008]
Dialogue Box 4.7: Transcontinental laptop challenge
Video Rupert lands in San Francisco with a non-booting laptop, which Charles tries to fix remotely from London. Then a colleague from down under calls in with a 'crook' notebook. Can Charles banish the blue screen of death? [27 Aug 2008]
Dialogue Box 4.8: Powerline networking
Video Connecting your office or home via the mains wiring is quick and easy, but what are the drawbacks? Dialogue Box uses a vacuum cleaner, a desk lamp and a fluorescent tube to demonstrate some of them [02 Sep 2008]
- 200 is only a theoretical maximum - pround
- Wireless can be worse! - 82412412
- Perennial or Hardy Annual? - Tezzer
Next Colossus challenge 'will make nerds sweat'
Video National Museum of Computing director Tony Sale discusses work that remains to be done on the rebuilt WWII-era Colossus computer, and the next cipher challenge [10 Sep 2008]
