I may have noted how it feels like the more trivial a purchase is, the more time I spend agonising over it. In the last month I bought a car and a house. In both cases I got the first one I saw. In contrast I have spent a month or so dithering about getting […]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
New Phone Who Dis?
April 12th, 2026 · Comments Off on New Phone Who Dis? · Life, Technology
Tags: Phones
Random List #2
March 5th, 2025 · Comments Off on Random List #2 · Life, Technology
Here are 5 gadgets I have loved
Tags: Gadgets
Blue Sky Thinking
November 9th, 2024 · Comments Off on Blue Sky Thinking · Life, Technology
I have finally reached the point where I am taking steps to ditch Twitter/X. The only reason I lasted so long is that I like to avoid too much admin in my life, and if I want to move to another network rather than just unplug completely it seems like a lot of admin. A […]
Tags: Social Media·Twitter
Losing it
September 27th, 2024 · Comments Off on Losing it · Life, Technology
The good people who host the skuds.org domain and it’s contents recently migrated everything to new servers. Everything looks OK now, but it was not without incident. The main thing is that this site suddenly showed up as being suspended, which turned out to be because I had not updated DNS details to point at […]
Tags: Internet
Am I The Idiot?
June 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on Am I The Idiot? · Life, Technology
A thought occurred to me today. While I was out walking I saw, as I so often do, somebody talking on their mobile phone and holding it in front of them horizontally. I think it might be learned behaviour from watching The Apprentice or something. Whenever I see this my inner monologue is always “look […]
Flying High
June 4th, 2023 · Comments Off on Flying High · Life, Technology
Well I finally got round to getting my drone off the ground today. My drone app said that it was not good to fly, because of the wind speed, especially the gusts, but I just couldn’t wait any longer. Because of the no-fly zone around Gatwick I can’t fly in the back garden or over […]
Just a test
March 3rd, 2023 · Comments Off on Just a test · Technology
I did that thing you should never do the other day. I tried to fix a trivial error by tweaking settings a bit, without backing the site up first and broke it. At my age I should know better. Broke it to the extent that I had to ask for everything to be restored from […]
Tags: Wordpress
Moving to Mastodon
November 21st, 2022 · Comments Off on Moving to Mastodon · Life, Technology
I’m not sure I can cope with all the hassle of moving to, and learning about, a new platform, but if Twitter does go completely tits-up it is either that or abandon social media completely. I have mixed feelings about it. There are good and bad aspects to social media. If I decide to just […]
Eye in the sky
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Eye in the sky · Life, Technology
It looks like I now have a hobby at last. For my 60th birthday the kids clubbed together and bought me a drone. A proper serious one. Apparently there are implications and extra conditions for drones of 250g and over, so this one is 249.5g but very sophisticated. In fact it is so sophisticated that […]
Just like starting over
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Just like starting over · Life, Music, Technology
Quite a long time ago I sold my turntable (a gorgeous Linn Sondek LP12) and all of my vinyl. We were moving to a smaller house and the vinyl was taking up a lot of space, not to mention the space needed for a proper rack for the turntable, amplifier, speakers, etc. I found that […]
Tags: Music·Technology·Vinyl
