I have been getting a lot of spam comments lately. Most gets caught in the filters, but a lot ends up in the to-be-approved queue and takes time to clear out. I have noticed that nearly all of it is on the same page – and it is a ‘page’ in WordPress terminology rather than […]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
Lenovo fanboy
June 19th, 2018 · Comments Off on Lenovo fanboy · Technology
I bought a new mobile phone last week. After several Sony Xperias I went for a new Moto G6 after finally acknowledging that my eyes and fingers don’t cope so well on a compact phone I wanted something bigger, but the big Sonys are a bit pricey. When I turned it on I was greeted […]
Tags: Gadgets
Three little words
September 2nd, 2017 · Comments Off on Three little words · Life, Technology
I am finding the website what3words.com endlesslessly fascinating, especially the map part of it. Basically it is a concept for a geolocation system. The whole world is overlaid with a grid of 3-metre squares and each square has a unique name made up from a combination of three randomly-assigned words. The idea is to have […]
Random nostalgia
August 30th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Technology
Today I remembered, for no particular reason, Serif PagePlus. With the benefit of hindsight I think it may be my favourite bit of software ever. At the time it was truly remarkable. It seemed to do just about all the things that high end DTP software would do, or at least all the things a […]
Tags: Nostalgia
Mind the gap
August 25th, 2017 · Comments Off on Mind the gap · Music, Technology
Most of the famous gaps in Spotify’s library have now been filled, with Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Metallica all becoming available with a lot of publicity, and the Prince back catalogue reappearing after his death. I think Jay-Z is largly unavailable because he has his own rival streaming service, and a few […]
Tags: Spotify
New ways to spend money
June 17th, 2017 · Comments Off on New ways to spend money · Life, Technology
It seems like each new advance in technology just gives you more opportunities to spend money buying stuff you already have. The advent of CD led a lot of people to buy new copies of LPs they had on vinyl – a trend that is now getting reversed to an extent. The advent of DVD […]
Tags: Doh!
Inflation madness
December 14th, 2016 · Comments Off on Inflation madness · Technology
I had an email from Virgin Media the other day. Remember how we used to just have razor blades? And then we started to have razors with two blades? They were advertised by an animation showing how the first blade left a bit of stubble and the second blade caught that? And then it turned […]
Tags: TV·Virgin Media
Time lapse
December 7th, 2016 · Comments Off on Time lapse · Technology
Well this is fun! But also frustrating because we are now used to quite high resolution satellite imagery and obviously the whole time lapse thing can only be done to the resolution of the worst in the dataset. If you zoom in to Crawley you can see the major changes, like Maidenbower springing up, but […]
Tags: Links
No more ‘Chinese friends’
October 5th, 2016 · Comments Off on No more ‘Chinese friends’ · Life, Technology
The news today is that Amazon are banning ‘incentivised reviews’. What that means is that you can’t accept anything in return for reviewing a product, not even a free or discounted product. It has always been the case that you can’t accept payment in return for writing a review, and especially not for writing a […]
Trouble adapting
October 3rd, 2016 · Comments Off on Trouble adapting · Technology
Why is it so hard to find an adapter that lets you plug a 3.5mm TRRS jack into a 3.5mm TRS socket? The reason this is a problem is that it is getting harder and harder to find headphones with an old-fashioned TRS jack to plug into my old mp3 player. They are all TRRS-style […]
Tags: Toys
