In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Google – The Cause Of My Crash?
Scary. Very scary. Having spent the past week getting my PC back up to speed by reinstalling the various programs I’d lost with the reinstall of Windows XP, today I reinstalled Google Earth in preparation for creating some more Google Earth Challenge posts. It installed just fine — but when I downloaded some of the [...]
Computer Crash: Update
As I write, it’s nearly 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening, and I’m coming to the end of the worst few computing days I’ve ever had. You’ll know from my previous post that my main desktop PC crashed on Friday morning, for the reasons explained. I added a comment written on Tuesday morning while I was [...]
Computer Crash
My desktop PC’s crashed. Big Time. It’s been misbehaving a bit for the past couple of weeks — an occasional flicker would cross the screen and I’d think, “Hmmm — what was that?” Then it wouldn’t do it again and I’d just carry on working. But on Friday morning, after bringing the PC off standby [...]
I’ve Seen The Future. It’s Web 2.0
My web browsing the other night brought me to a new level of understanding. Suddenly, I get it. No, I mean, like, I really get it. Web 2.0 is the future, man. For years, we’ve been inputting information such as web pages, images, audio files, databases and catalogues into the web at a vast rate [...]
