After many years of looking, at last I have become a member of this inspiring group of people. I wear sunglasses a lot, I think my eyes have become more sensitive as I have aged. They have polarised lens and they bring out the edges and detail in the clouds like you wouldn’t believe. Sometimes…

As you may have seen elsewhere here, I am a Radio 4 / Radio 4 extra maniac. I am always wanting to keep programmes I have enjoyed and frequently search about for a piece of software that would let me download them. There are plenty out there but none really do the trick. Until today…

I’m writing this one up as it took me hours to locate an answer on the net. I had been working on a project in Visual Basic 6. The project was issued and distributed and I had to move on to adding new features. I wanted to do this by saving a copy of the…

Ain’t it? Once upon a time, a memory was just that. Now you can find those memories and order them up from goodness knows where in the world. Then the memory drops on your mat… As a lad I remember a tv programme that really inspired me. I thought it was called Search Control and…

Well my youngest talked me into bringing her to Bluewater to attend a book signing by the Olympic Diver Tom Daley. Now I know what it must have been like for the Beatles! If i were Tom, I would be scared. Teenage girls are a scary prospect at the best of times. But several hundred…

I bought one of those tiny little HD quality cameras from ebay some time back. There are lots of these on the market and they record to a micro SD card. I’ve long had a strange interest for aerial photography and it occurred to me that the small size and very low weight of this…

Well the first steps to working with new hardware usually go through the age-old step of making an LED flash. I finally managed to do that very recently and recorded the moment for posterity! I recommend reading MagPi magazine – it’s very professional and very informative. What more could you want from a mag? Please…

Same day that my Pi arrived, I tried to write the Debian squeeze image to an 8GB Sandisk Micro SD. Actually I tried it with a 2GB unbranded and found the same problem. The problem was that when clicking the ‘Write’ button in Win32DiskImager, it would say it could not lock the disk, the disk…

my Pi has arrived. Having ordered it on 3/3/12, it arrived by First Class Royal Mail this morning. The anticipation was unnatural I’m sure. I thought once opened, that huge anticipation would quickly ebb, but now there is SO MUCH that can be done with it. It’s not like a dvd or a book i.e….