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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Back from the dead
April 10th, 2015 · Comments Off on Back from the dead · Life, Technology
It has been an exciting day today for various reasons – the council published the lists of candidates for next month’s elections, I picked up my new glasses so I can read the list, and I managed to give the kiss of life to my Nexus 7 tablet.
No wonder he’s going
February 20th, 2015 · Comments Off on No wonder he’s going · Politics, Technology
When Francis Maude first talked about combining all the government websites into one big one, that part of me that had worked in IT since before there even was an internet, thought it sounded a bit risky. The principle isn’t too bad: why not provide a single front end, or a portal? It could be […]
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Partial fact of the day
February 2nd, 2015 · Comments Off on Partial fact of the day · Life, Technology
The fax machine was invented before the telephone. For its first fifteen years of existence it was only used to transmit transfer requests between football teams.
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A blast from the past
January 27th, 2015 · Comments Off on A blast from the past · Life, Technology
While looking for something in the system32 directory of a Windows 7 computer the other day (I still can’t quite bring myself to call it a folder) I came across the file pifmgr.dll It was a bit like when you are on Facebook or Linkedin and see the name of somebody you knew or worked […]
Todays bright idea #10 – smartphone video feature
November 23rd, 2014 · Comments Off on Todays bright idea #10 – smartphone video feature · Technology
Tonight I was being a grumpy old man at a concert in London, where I could hardly see Toyah onstage because of all the smartphones being held up by people filming it. I think we have reached the point where this is now considered normal and it is too late to stop it but perhaps […]
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