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Here you will find my most recent Blog posts.
The blog is an eclectic mix of musing which range from reviews of products that I have purchased, nerdy technical musings through to strategic professional observations that I feel might be useful to share.
I can’t promise that it will always be a “family show” – I spent years suppressing speaking frankly about how I felt on a subject (due to the work that I was doing in the wider technology community) – so, basically if I want to swear or write about random things that nobody else cares about – then I will. Let’s face it I pay the bills on the site so I’ll say pretty much what I want … within reason!
This site is primarily for others – but it is also for me to express.
Tangy Thai Fish Cakes
I am not a fan of what might be considered in the west as “traditional fish cakes“. Typically in the UK they are coated in […]
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[ SOLVED ] Web browsers randomly stop talking to the Internet on MacOS … the WI-FI Strikes Back and Sophos so Good (actually bad)…
So, in the last part (this wasn’t intended to be a series) – I looked into a problem that I was having with my 2020 […]
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Web browsers randomly stop talking to the Internet on MacOS…
This is a weird and utterly frustrating problem. It’s an issue that I have seen on two totally different iMacs which I’ve owned with completely […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 5 – There maybe trouble ahead …
So we’ve hit part 5 of this series and we’re now at the point where I’d like to cover some of the little challenges that […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 4 – ROM COMS and happily ever afters …
So the in the previous three parts I took trip down memory lane of my past love affairs with retro gaming from the late 1980’s […]
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Apple 2020 27″ 5K Retina – an honest review ….
I guess if I was to sum up the 2020 27″ iMac I would say; “Everything stays the same, but everything changes”. Cryptic I know, […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 3 – Enter my son’s build of the console version …
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I have had a trip down memory lane in terms of the games of yesteryear that still […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 2 – All the fun of the piCADE …
So in part one of this series I set the scene in regard to my love of computers from yesteryear and how what is regarded […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 1 – Setting the scene …
I have loved computers since I was very young – if I recall correctly I got my first real computer when I was about seven […]
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MacOs Catalina: There was an error in internet accounts preferences
Just a quick little post which I hope might help some folks out there. Over the last few days I had the need to totally […]
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Low volume on videos on YouTube via a Mac….
So here’s a thing … I am a mad Foo Fighters fan. It’s not even funny, I like to think of myself as Taylor Hawkins’s […]
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Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of my three part series on using Splunk Community Edition to track for unusual activity on your Apache based […]
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Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 1
Like a good tenant, I tend to keep an eye on the resources that my website uses on the hosting platform that I use. I […]
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Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 2 (So we wanna a thingy with a dowaadi-diddy…)
Well, so it seems that finishing this series could take years (literally) …. hmmmm! So, in the last part of this series I had a little […]
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Apple iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and Samsung C34J791 Quad HD 34″ Monitor…
This is a little something that I thought that I would put something out there on – as quite frankly, As I was astonished that […]
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My MacBook Air 2018 (honest) review…
So, just to be upfront and people don’t accuse me of being a total Apple “Fan Boy” – I’m not; over my years working in […]
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Quick Tip – tracing insecure items on SSL pages using Firefox
So, I have been doing quite a bit of web development recently (as you can see from the new site) and have learned some new […]
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Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 1 (Setting the Scene – and what is this Digital Thingy??)…
Part 2 of this article is (finally) available here Wow, I’ve been writing this post for a year! I really need to make sure that […]
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