Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

My good deed for today was nothing more than persuading someone else to do a good deed, not that he took much persuading.  The Broadfield Community Centre was recently given a decent network colour laser printer.  Last week I wired it all up to their hub and then ran into a brick wall when I […]

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After work today I went straight up to London for a sort of conference on web 2.0 stuff, with an emphasis on using wikis in business.  It sounds like the sort of thing I am about 20 years too old for, and maybe I am, but it was a reasonably diverting evening.
The theme was 'enterprise […]

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After much nagging I got around to re-installing Windows XP on Charlie’s computer today. It was my fault for giving him the idea really: I was getting very frustrated with his PC being so slow. Every time he wanted help with something I could not believe how long it took just to start up […]

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Its 200 years since the abolition of slavery - but about a month since I was sold into slavery myself. Not that it has had much of an impact on my lifestyle.
It was all Jayne’s idea. She decided it would be a good idea to have an auction at the Broadfield Community Centre fete […]

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If you went around all the offices in the UK and collected every ream of photocopying paper which is sitting underneath a computer monitor to raise it up 5 centimetres you could build a stack of paper which would reach three-quarters of the way to the moon.
I just made that up, but it sounds plausible[*].  […]

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I do like the idea of this: hot on the heels of having a museum of computing at Bletchley Park comes the idea of a museum for computer games.
It might sound like a trivial thing to devote a museum to, but if we can have whole rooms dedicated to silver thimbles in the V&A why […]

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This evening I downloaded Safari from Apple to see what it is like. it is not that I am unhappy with Firefox, but there is a sort of novelty value to having Safari running under Windows and a certain amount of hype about it, so I thought I would see if any of it […]

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I have been reading the trade paper Computing, or similar publications for more than 20 years. At first I felt it was a good idea to keep up-to-date with industry goings-on as I was in an IT job within a major computer manufacturer.  Now its more out of habit than anything else.
The industry has changed […]

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As an IT professional I decided that it really was time I got my printer to work across the LAN at home. 
It all used to work perfectly, with my old colour inkjet shared between 4 computers - and one of them running Windows 98 - but then a few tings changed.  In rapid succession Jayne […]

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For all those heretics who used to have a Commodore C64 instead of the mighty ZX Spectrum, here is something which may bring back some memories - someone has written a theme to make his blog look like the command line interface from the C64.
Having never had a C64 myself I can’t say how authentic […]

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