Last week Jayne treated me to some new toys as a 50th birthday present. She said she wanted to get me something special, but I really couldn’t think of anything I wanted. It isn’t that I have everything, just that I have everything I want. She suggested a new PC that I wouldn’t complain about [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
The way we were
September 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Technology
At the moment I am re-reading a humorous book about computers from 1996 called Dave Barry in Cyberspace. I have quite a few of his books and like to dip into the ones that are basically collections of his newspaper columns every now and then because they are light reading and more or less timeless. [...]
Headphone smackdown
August 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Technology
The other day I took possession of a pair of Philips Fidelio M1 headphones. They were a free sample for me to test out, which is nice. Coincidentally, Frankie had left his headphones behind (Beats by Dr Dre Solo) so it was an ideal opportunity to compare them head-to-head. The Beats headphones are ubiquitous. You [...]
Terminology
August 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Technology
Quick question: what to you call one of these? I have captioned it as a USB stick, but they are also called flash drives, pen drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, USB memory cards, and various combinations of those names. How is it that a device can become so ubiquitous so quickly and we can’t even [...]
Council twits
July 6th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Politics, Technology
I like to keep an eye on the blog of our friend and one-man political soap opera, James Doyle. The soap opera comment is because of the complicated nature of his political allegiances. He was a Lib Dem but quit the party after the general election (at which he was a Lib Dem candidate). He [...]
The way we were
April 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
While I was sorting out some old books to get rid of recently (I only managed to force myself to get rid of about a dozen or so) I came across an old business card of mine that had been used as a bookmark. To be honest, most of my business cards from that, or [...]
Just a test
March 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Technology
Because8 hours at work is not enough for me and I have to mess around with computers at home too.
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IMAX coming to Crawley – or is it?
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Technology
The local papers are making a lot of fuss about the Crawley multiplex opening an IMAX screen next month. On the face of it this is a good thing. At the moment there are only 19 IMAX screens in the UK, so it is a bit of a coup. The only worrying thing is that [...]
Should I stay or should I go
January 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Technology
I really don’t know what to do about LinkedIn, which is sort of a business equivalent of Facebook. A while ago I was getting invites from people to join their networks so eventually I did set up an account. I put a little bit of information in it but just enough for people to know [...]
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Kindle vs Sony Reader
December 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology
A lot of people got a Kindle this christmas, according to Amazon’s PR and verified by my Twitter feed where half the people I follow seem to have one now. Jayne and I bought each other a Kindle. I thought it might be fun to do a little review and compare the Kindle to the [...]
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