4 August 2024
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Barcodes were invented in the early 1950s, although it took another twenty or so years before they started to become more widely adopted. They are essentially a style of font that is pretty impregnable on its own to human vision … Continue reading
3 August 2024
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It was 5 July 1993 that Peter Steiner drew his “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon. That turned out to be very prescient. It was true then even though relatively few people had access to the Internet … Continue reading
20 June 2024
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Cruft is a term widely used in programming circles to indicate code that has gradually become cluttered with redundant or confusing material. It’s the kind of thing that happens when code passes through a succession of maintainers, each with their … Continue reading
6 June 2024
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I recently took the plunge and upgraded my Windows box from Win10 to Win11. It is a free upgrade but I decided not be an early adopter on that one in case anything broke. As it happens, it all went … Continue reading
25 April 2024
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At church, we’re between regular computers for the projection system (OpenSong) we use for liturgy, song lyrics and other things we want to put up on the screen. The computer we used to use had a terminal hard drive failure … Continue reading
18 April 2024
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I’d have to say that Facebook is becoming less and less useful. Of the first ten items that I’ve quickly scanned over on my feed, only 2-3 are from people I know posting something about things they are doing or … Continue reading
12 April 2024
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QR codes have been around for quite a while and my feeling is that they still haven’t become entirely mainstream. They haven’t died on the vine but I haven’t seem them become ubiquitous to the point where people don’t also … Continue reading
4 April 2024
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It was about twenty years ago that the world (of web developers) was getting excited about a concept called Web 2.0. That was my world at the time and, as I recall, the two key pillars were user-generated content and … Continue reading
13 March 2024
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The projector in the hall at church overheated again today during the toddlers session. Fortunately we’d got through most of what we needed it for and the newish song I was bringing was simple enough to teach verbally. We’ve been … Continue reading
1 March 2024
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We recently got given a DVD drive (including multi-region playback and Blu-ray facilities) but it was missing a couple of things. One was a power lead but, thanks to my habit of hanging onto that kind of item, I was … Continue reading