Having tried several anti-virus packages over the years, I have settled with Avast!.  It normally sits on my taskbar quietly monitoring things and I generally forget about it.  The only time I remember it’s there is when I do a complete scan, or when it makes me jump with a loud advice that it has just updated itself.

Every couple of months, a banner flashes at the bottom of the screen to warn me that an infected mail has arrived.  Sirens blare, and I have the opportunity to delete the mail, which I do.

Yesterday, it went off twice, which is very unusual.  Normally I could expect five or six alerts in a full year, so two in one day was exceptional.

So far today, I have had nine infected mails.  Yes – nine.

Is there a new flood of the damn things on the Internet?

Or have I just been chosen as the lucky recipient of this month’s batch?

There is a feature in Google Earth that I was unaware of.

I discovered quite by chance that it is possible to download all the information in my Garmin SatNav onto the application.

As the SatNav retains a considerable backlog of journeys taken, I downloaded mine, which still contains a lot of the French trips. I now have a record of every single journey I made since the 20th of September, including start and end times, distance covered, speeds and more.  Most importantly though is the track data, which displays precisely where I drove.

What is not apparent from the first image is the level of detail.

This is the track from the 22nd, which is the day we went to Domme.  That loop through the woods is not a tracking error – the road has to climb around 300ft up a cliff.

My one regret is that I didn’t discover this feature a long time ago.