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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
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 [...]
Tags: Gadgets
The tide of spam
December 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Technology
I seem to be getting a lot less spam e-mail now and I am not sure exactly why. It sort of started when my PC packed up because ever since I set email up on the new one I have had hardly any spam. Ther is still a fair amount of junk mail but nearly [...]
Tags: Spam
Technologically challenged
November 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Technology
For the last few days I have been wrestling with technology. My PC died over the weekend and I spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate it, then a few days deciding what to replace it with. I finally forked out on a new one on Tuesday when trying to use the laptop annoyed [...]
Still offline
August 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Technology
We are now on our 4th day without broadband and some how I doubt anybody is going to fix it on a sunday or bank holiday. Amazed that in the middle of the breakdown of society in Libya they seem to have a better internet connection than Virgin Media can manage in Sussex.
Tags: Virgin Media
Infamy, infamy
August 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
…They’ve all got it in for me! Now that WordPress seems to be all up and running I have no internet connection. Had a little bit of a row with somebody at Virgin Media this evening and may have vented a bit at the bloke who told me they would get an engineer out on [...]
Tags: Virgin Media
Baby Got Back
August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
Strap in and brace yourself, because this could get boring very quickly. Keen-eyed regular readers will have noticed the unavailablility of this site for a few days and wondered whether it was the latest victim of Anonymous or Lulzsec or a Tory conspiracy. Nothing so exciting: just technical problems. I won’t describe the problems in [...]
Tags: Wordpress
Is it just me or…
August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
…is this all really slow now? Anybody else find that pages can take forever to load or time out?
Tags: Wordpress
Live long and prosper
August 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
After my experience of having the BlackBerry die on me I implemented nearly all the advice about extending battery life and it has had a dramatic effect. Now the thing still has plenty of battery life left after a couple of days.
Tags: BlackBerry·Gadgets
Too much information
August 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
I was a bit late into work this morning. This was indirectly caused by information overload. More directly, it was caused by the battery totally dying on the mobile I have been using as an alarm clock, but information overload contributed to that.
Tags: BlackBerry·Gadgets
