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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…
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Tech bubbles are so annoying
To a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail. I remember when next door’s kid was learning to talk and form his own opinions, everything coming out of his mouth started with “daddy”. The tech world is just as bad. AI is the new hotness, we’re actively encouraged to use it at work,…