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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
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 […]
The Internet of Things
May 14th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Internet of Things · Technology
My Blu Ray player packed up recently. Ironically, the real annoyance about this was not that I couldn’t play discs – I also have a DVD player so it was only the few Blue Ray discs I could not play – it was that I could not watch Amazon Prime content on my TV because […]
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plug in baby
February 23rd, 2016 · Comments Off on plug in baby · Life, Technology
We are having an electric car event at work on Thursday. I am actually on holiday, but I might pop in anyway to have a look. There is a lot of this going on at the moment. The Town Hall has Nissan coming in to show their Leaf off, as is the business next to […]
Tags: Cars·Electric Cars
Bye bye branches
July 2nd, 2015 · Comments Off on Bye bye branches · Life, Technology
I had an interesting email from Barclays today, inviting me to take part in a trial of paying in cheques via online banking. Interesting because this is exactly the feature I was saying they should have when I last received a cheque from somewhere. With online banking capable of doing most things and cash available […]
Tags: Internet
Programming flavours
June 3rd, 2015 · Comments Off on Programming flavours · Technology
This evening I came across a great passage in the book I am reading. The passage is about programming languages, the book isn’t. Not really anyway. But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don’t just read it; you write it, too. You make it do things for you. And this, […]
Technology nil, Skuds 2
May 19th, 2015 · Comments Off on Technology nil, Skuds 2 · Technology
I got my user ID and password for the Town Hall network today, so I popped in after work and got myself all set up so I can now get to the emails from home. That is going to make everything a lot easier from now on. I think I got to it in the […]
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