…is this all really slow now? Anybody else find that pages can take forever to load or time out?
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
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
Google Plus
July 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
So I finally got onto Google Plus. Its a bit hard to judge how good it is or even whether it is any good at all because it is a social networking tool and any benefits to it will only really become apparent when I have a bit of a network on it – at [...]
Tags: Google Plus·Internet
Blackberry
July 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
Test from mobile, using a wordpress app for the new phone.
Tags: Gadgets
No comment
June 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
It turns out that I effectively turned off comments here when I upgraded WordPress the other day. I forgot that the captcha plug-in I use always screws up when I upgrade WordPress and I have to de-activate and re-activate it to make it all work again. I always forget. I expect I will forget next [...]
Kindness of strangers
June 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
I have been having a bit of a frustrating time with WordPress lately. After not writing anything at all for ages – all my recent thoughts have been short enough to fit on Twitter or Facebook – I wrote a post today and when I hit ‘publish’ I did not get the normal message about [...]
Tags: Wordpress
More mobile dilemmas
May 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Technology
The contract on Jayne’s Vodafone finally came to an end, so I dumped them and got her a BlackBerry from Virgin because it was a bout the cheapest deal when factoring in the discount for being a Virgin Media customer.  It could have been even cheaper but I went for the new 3G version instead [...]
Tags: Gadgets
Mindboggling aviation statistics
May 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
For some reason I was looking at the Wikipedia page for the B-24 Liberator WWII heavy bomber, saw the numbers that were built and it got me thinking. It sounded like a lot (18,482 built in 6 years) so I started looking around at the numbers built of other aircraft for comparison and came up [...]
Tags: Aviation·Statistics
Anorak paradise
April 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
Jayne and I went to Amberley museum for the second time in three days today. They do a deal whereby if you keep hold of your tickets you can return for free within 5 days, so we did. When we went on Saturday we left without seeing everything because we had to do some supermarket [...]
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