I find Logitech a superb brand, one I always go for if I have a choice. I bought one of their K750 Solar powered keyboards last year. I was just after a decent keyboard, the solar feature is not that important to me. But the keyboard is the best I have ever had the pleasure…

Just wanted to say, if you have the chance to see 10cc live, take it.

What an amazing story. If you were involved in the creation of that amazing resource, it must be a wonderful feeling to read stories like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17693816

Yeah I know Outlook 2003 is out of support now, but for those who still use it… Users were noticing that when they sent longer emails, large chunks of the emails were not sent. That is they were truncated at some seemingly random point in the text. It came to light when recipients were replying…

I’ve only just leaned of the passing of my old headmaster, Donald Samuel. I wanted to say something because I always felt he had influenced my life over many years. He was an old school type of headmaster, you knew not to do anything wrong as he could show great displeasure! But he ran the…

Is it just me? The article below contains a couple of counter-arguments in an attempt to balance the rights of hackers against the attempts by GCHQ to disrupt their activities. For example: “Legally, we enter a very grey area here; where members of Lulzsec were arrested and incarcerated for carrying out DoS attacks, but it seems…

I don’toften feel so moved by a film that I immediately want to come home and share it with the world, but Richard Curtis’ ‘About Time’ is one of those very few. What a masterful piece of work, full of smiles and humour and definately tears. I love Time Travel, it is the single most…

Well I’ve never seen this before. I was visiting Godmersham Church recently. It’s a small village about half way between Ashford and Canterbury. Just to the left of the entrance to the church stands a tree which appears to have received a lightening strike. A ‘gouge’ runs from as far up as I can see…

Take a look at this news story on the Beeb news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23158579 I say good for the checkout operator, ignorant bloody woman. I see it as the height of bad manners to be chatting on a mobile whilst the operator scans your stuff. They have to tell you how much it is at the end,…

I have spent some months now using wxtoimg to receive the NOAA APT images on 137MHz. It is a well designed program and produces superb results. Two small niggles I found are easily remedied it seems. Both require modification of the configuration file c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\WXtoImg\wxtoimg.cfg.  This filecontains all of the configuration settings for the software Changing…