I am not an IT expert, but we all need to be. We live in a computer technology dominated world, and people without computer skills are going to find themselves less and less popular. In fact, these days you would certainly expect a staff member to be able to do some basic repairs to their computer, to restart it, and before calling in specialists to at least make sure that it is plugged in, and the printer they say is not working is actually connected!

I tend to get lazy as the year goes on, and do less and less of my own IT, but I spent quite a bit of time during December and January having to sort out problems with 8-ta, not to mention replacing monitors and trying to figure out what was eating all my bandwidth at home. That is when I learnt never to allow a young person to load a computer game on one of your computers because in this case it came with a community, a server and a programme called Steam, which continually downloaded massive amounts of data on my account which unfortunately is not an uncapped account. The game itself – well, I never saw that, but is meant to be very good – Call of Duty: Black Ops.