Sometimes, I feel that my technological awareness has not proceeded much past the clockwork-toys-and-building-bricks stage.

Yes Deni - many thanks, I've visited the page, and would be very grateful for a words-of-one-syllable rundown. If you can make them less than one syllable, so much the better. PM or through www.skywriter.demon.co.uk, whichever you prefer.

Where exactly are you, geographically?

Thanks, - Ian