I once heard a joke that went something like this: At the sunday church service, the preacher delivered a rousing sermon. The following week he delivered exactly the same sermon again. And he did the same thing for the next…
I'm not sure if I speak for everyone - but I'm sure that I speak for many - when I say that I really hate all the advertising that's placed in many web pages that we view on our iPhones…
From time to time some people have told me that I have a unique way of explaining things - so I thought I'd have a go at using an analogy to explain why people need not fear the Pfizer BioNTech…
Last week I got a call of a long-standing elderly client; his adult son was having iPhone issues. I spoke to the son and learned that in addition to being locked out of his phone, he'd also received some very…
TL:dr "Some Arduino / C++ code to handle switch activations & calculate press durations using interrupts" I spent almost the entire last weekend trying to get a piece of Arduino code working properly for a project. It sounds like a…
Last week a new customer came into the workshop with a dead laptop; it was an easy fix - but while they were here he mentioned that his partner also had a dead laptop that contained about a decade of…
I checked my spam folder this morning (as we should all do from time to time) and - as usual - there were a bunch of the usual extortion attempts. They often start out with: "I am sorry to inform…
Yesterday I got this text from my partner: Being a family man I find things like this heart-breaking because it's just so unnecessary. So let's look at a few simple ways we can stop this happening to our precious memories.…
We now live in a world where some people will take advantage of us if we let them. From a computer perspective we need to give attention to 4 main areas to stay safe (in no particular order): Avoid risky…
Whilst online helping someone code an Arduino to act as a stopwatch, I thought "this would actually make a cool little showcase project". I wasn't quite sure what to call the "style"; I had "steamPunk" in mind ... but that…