Usually, if I hit an IT or programming problem, I put words I think are appropriate into Google, and out pops a solution. Sometimes though, that doesn’t work — because the people who’ve hit the problem before chose different words to the ones I thought were appropriate. In cases like those, I like to [...]
Debbie bought a nice new laptop a couple of months ago, for her online exam marking.
Tonight, for the first time, she needed to burn a CDR. Each time she put in a CDR, the error “D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.” would appear.
Microsoft’s support pages suggest that we’ve installed an incompatible version of Roxio [...]
I did some recreational programming last night. For some reason I got it into my head that it would be useful to have a tool to tell you whether a given picture was correctly entered in the Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
A first stab using PHP and the phpFlickr library gave something functional but not [...]
You’d have to be completely uninterested in rock music not to have heard of the Arctic Monkeys — two no. 1 singles and an album which outsold everything else by quite some way on the week of its release. It seemed I knew everything about them except what they sounded like. To be honest [...]
I’ve been browsing camera shops’ web sites because I reckon our forthcoming trip to New York might be a good time to buy a new one (smaller so I can carry one around more; higher resolution video; not wrecked from being in my pocket with my keys).
For a few exhiliarating minutes, I seriously thought [...]
It’s easy to forget that digital equipment can wear out, but it looks like our Freeview receiver is on its last legs. Whether components have worn out due to extended use, whether it can no longer cool itself sufficently, or whether there’s some other reason, it seems to crash unpredictably as often as once [...]
There’s a new release of Thunderbird, Mozilla’s rather nice email/news/RSS application.
Things didn’t look good at first: after installing, it would run momentarily then disappear. Apparently this is because I installed it over a previous version — I had to delete everything from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\ and install again. That’s quite poor, and the installer [...]
While my hosting people beaver away fixing my database issue (not paying for backups, and not bothering to take my own, I won’t be surprised if all comments get lost), [Update: look, they fixed it with no losses. Hooray.] let’s take our minds off things by watching how Apple lies to you.
Here: [...]
At the dinner table the other day, Tom asked me “So what’s the big deal about Flickr?”. He’d been trying to get to grips with “Web 2.0″, and something he’d read held up Flickr as an example of what “Web 2.0″ is all about.
A little hint about “Web 2.0″ and “The Semantic Web”: lots [...]
I’ve adapted a Perl script for uploading to Flickr, to migrate pictures from Fotopic.net to Flickr.
If you’re interested in the script, there’s more about it here.
But the main thing is, there will be a lot of oldish pictures showing up in my Flickr pages in the near future.
Update! Look at all my sets!