Spring has been here for a while now, things are growing and I’ve got to get a move on with keeping tabs on my garden data. If I want to be able to look back and, for example, see how … Continue reading
27 March 2021
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Category Archives: Computers
21 March 2021
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Be Counted
Today is census day in most of the UK (Scotland is waiting until 2022) and I completed it online. This is my second census since starting this blog and it doesn’t surprise me to see that I wrote about it … Continue reading
18 January 2021
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Force Restart
The first thing I do most mornings is pick up my iPad and skim over social media and news updates, check the weather forecast and read a news story or two in a bit more detail. Not this morning though … Continue reading
13 January 2021
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Works… with some work
I help with the Toddlers’ group at church and, after a recent online catch up, one of the team emailed me some files with lyrics for songs we are going to use this term. However, it turned out that they … Continue reading
28 December 2020
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New Software for Creativity
In software, my bit discovery of this year has been HitFilm Express. Looking back, I see I had installed this free video-editing package sometime in late April. I can now report that I perservered with it and have far exceeded … Continue reading
23 December 2020
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How Insensitive
For all that it is a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, Google doesn’t seem to be applying that all across the board. The particular case I have in mind is the Messages app on Google’s Android operating … Continue reading
28 November 2020
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Dinner in Brazil
As with last weekend’s Korean ‘trip’ this was again a virtual visit but, gosh, isn’t the internet amazing sometimes. We have a dear friend in Brazil who spotted my posts about the virtual holiday last weekend and asked if we’d … Continue reading
6 October 2020
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Choose the Right Tool
They say that a bad workman blames his tools but, anyone who has experience of a practical field, like woodwork, knows that making a poor choice can render a task difficult to do well or plain impossible. You can drive … Continue reading
4 October 2020
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Mixed Mode Meeting
Today was our church’s Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). Normally this would have happened at the end of March – the week after lockdown fell. It could be well past next March before things are back to normal, updated Diocesan … Continue reading
30 September 2020
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Prettier
Some who’ve known me a long time will be surprised to hear that I’ve recently welcomed a new computer onto my desk… running Windows 10. Why have I gone back to the ‘dark side’? Macs are just too expensive for … Continue reading