Apologies for the dull-sounding headlines to my blog entries of late. Apparently it's what you've got to do if you want to drive traffic to your blog/web site, although I don't think it's going to make too much difference in my case. This week the big story so far has been everyone's favourite supermarket Tesco moving into another sector it hopes to dominate, although it might find a little bit more competition in this one from the resident incumbents; Microsoft, Symantec et al.

It's difficult to see where the retail giant is going to get all its customers from here, I mean there might be some technology-averse consumers who think it would be a good idea to buy their computer software here because they've been eating Tesco canned tuna for years and it's never given them food poisoning. But anyone wanting a bargain would surely choose the free open source out there, of which there is plenty. It's a bit worrying to see software so cheap that isn't open source; there may be question marks over the support package (online only apparently) and the quality…have you tasted Tesco Value bread recently?

That said it would be foolish to write them off, and I approve of what they're doing with internet delivery. After my tirade at Parcelforce, it seems Tesco Direct, its new non-food catalogue-based online service (or Argos-killer), features two-hour slots for home deliveries, short lead times for some orders and the option to pick-up deliveries from some stores, which are, after all, more plentiful than Post Offices these days.