My girlfriend was working for the London Golf Show and asked me if I’d care to join her in for a few days ad take lots of pictures of the show. Naturally I agreed.
These are a few snaps as we arrived the night before the show began, at the Excel Centre, London.
An old pal was studying at at Prague University on an exchange year for his degree. He asked me if I would care to join him for a week or two. So I made my way to London’s Victoria Bus and I hopped aboard a Prague bound bus carrying a small bag of clothes and…
Went to visit my uncle in Brechfa Wales , with former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen to take a look at the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth while I was in the area. This has been posted retrospectively. This images were originally taken and scanned from 35mm film to appear in articles I…
You can finally dump Windows! Several people people have written in asking questions along the lines of, "why are you dumping Windows and using Linux instead?" The answer is simply that we now have overwhelming technical, financial and perhaps most importantly, moral reasons for no longer wishing to use Microsoft software – if it can…
Just across the road form us there lives a pair of Ginger cats. For some bizarre reason they like kipping on my girlfriend’s Nissan Micra, despite the fat the street is lines with much posher motors. And they have to be some of the grumpiest looking cats I have ever seen. We call them the…
Discussion came up on a forum to which I belong whether it is better to use NAS (network attached storage) or external hard drives for backup. My answer is why not use both? Effectively I have three NAS servers. One is a media server. The others are purely backup – though they can quickly be…
Some of my favourite computers require no PSU, no batteries, no RAM, no disks, no upgrades and they are 100% resistant to all known malware. No, I’m not talking about some newfangled Linux. I’m talking about good old fashioned sliderules. 🙂 Sliderules top to bottom… Top: Darmstadt 304. Despite its German-sounding name, this sliderule was…
