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Power Cuts
Currently there’s a powercut at work. This is a bit awkward considering I teach computer science. No power, no computers. Except it’s not so bad, everyone has a laptop. I’m writing this on my Remarkable 2, next to me is my work Surface Pro. And in my bag is my personl Chromebook. They’re all battery…
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What a load of farmyard manure this gardening thing is.
It’s only taken half a year, but my greenhouse is now finally ready for things to be planted in it! It has all its windows, won’t blow away and after a trip to Wickes the ground is now suitable for growing plants again. Can confirm the manure is real manure, from real cows, it might…
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Copilot – your unwanted everyday intrusion
After last night’s Windows update it appears I have something new to disable on my computer that was installed without my asking… I asked it how I could remove it, it gave me pointless generic information I could have found using Google. A bit more of a specific question made it get the point. It’s…
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Roku Express 4K
Back in the mists of time I used to watch video on my TV using an XBox that I’d modded with a mod chip, running XBMC. It played videos off a Linux file server. While everyone else was playing DVDs on their telly, I was the oddball streaming video. Things have progressed, and after a…
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DofE 2024
Where I probably walked more miles than the children, and everyone got very very muddy. Last weekend was the annual Duke of Edinburgh silver expedition, and once again I was herding children around the Yorkshire Dales. There wasn’t any snow this year, but it was raining and there was plenty of boot-sucking mud. Normally I…
