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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
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
Upgrade time
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Upgrade time · Technology
So. The place where I host all this is upgrading the version of php and this site was not compatible with the new version of php. My fault for not touching anything for ages: I had an ancient version of WordPress and some ancient and problematic plugins and themes installed. At the moment I can […]
Tags: Wordpress
Today’s bright idea #11 – laptop screens
June 24th, 2020 · Comments Off on Today’s bright idea #11 – laptop screens · Life, Technology
It has been a little while since I blurted out one of my bright ideas, about six years actually. In that time I have still had ideas of course; some of them impractical, some of them impossible and the rest just stupid – in other words, the same as usual. I just couldn’t be arsed […]
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Working from home
May 13th, 2020 · Comments Off on Working from home · Life, Technology, Work
For the last few months, like anybody else who is able to, I have been working from home. It hasn’t actually been a massive adjustment because I had only just got used to being back in the office full-time after either being on post-operrative sick leave or because of an immune system suppressed through chemotherapy […]
Tags: Commuting·Coronavirus
Holiday post mortem
September 29th, 2019 · Comments Off on Holiday post mortem · Life, Technology
This week we returned from a 10-day visit to Crete. It was the most boring holiday Jayne and I have ever had, but that is not a bad thing. In the past we have rented a car or quad and gone out around the island, visiting the many and varied archaeological sites, but this time […]
