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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
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
Bloody Windows
August 18th, 2016 · Comments Off on Bloody Windows · Technology
I have a laptop. I know. Everybody has one these days, but I can remember when that was something to brag about. It is 6 or 7 years old but should still be OK for basic tasks. The trouble is that it doesn’t get used very often. I fired it up yesterday for probably the […]
Linking to Twitter
August 11th, 2016 · Comments Off on Linking to Twitter · Technology
This is a bit of a test. I recently dumped Facebook and may well go back to writing more on here, so I thought I would look into a WordPress plugin to cross-publish posts to Twitter. I used to have that ages ago but when it stopped working after something somewhere changed I just dropped […]
Gotta catch ’em all
July 16th, 2016 · Comments Off on Gotta catch ’em all · Life, Technology
Tonight was not exactly how I imagined my middle ages to be. At home, babysitting the grandchildren, while the wife takes the dogs out for a walk – returning after two-and-a-half hours, dead chuffed because she now has a Pikachu.
Tags: WTF
Losing Face, gaining Book
July 6th, 2016 · Comments Off on Losing Face, gaining Book · Life, Technology
“Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, we’re so glad you could attend, come inside! come inside!”, as ELP said, or as the legendary George Costanza would say “I’m back baby!” All of which is just to say that, having neglaected this website for ages, I shall probably be posting more often […]
