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Certainly not praise for Windows 10, which has proved to be a significant step backwards from Windows 7 on my PC: slower boot time, odd incompatibilities, and, worst of all, mysterious and annoying random freezes for about 1 minute). But praise for the Surface 3 which I received as an unexpected Christmas pressie. I’ve had […]

So I went through the formal switching process to change banks, all DDs in place two days before the switchover date, npower sent e-mail acknowledging the new account details – then five minutes later another e-mail saying “We couldn’t collect your Direct Debit amount of …“. The DD was already in place, and they shouldn’t

Hmm… that wasn’t particularly difficult, was it? Just delete it from the template and add it to the footer menu… No need to be frightened by jdoc:include…

Went. Saw a lot of people. Came home.

Just a reminder to myself… Been bugged by how to remove the © notice that Joomla sticks at the bottom of every page. Google turned up loads of stuff that has no relevance to what I see with Joomla 3.4.5. Eventually discovered that it’s defined in /templates/protostar in the footer section. So took a copy

Always nice when one of your favourite books intrudes into real life. I’m having the routing problem again, Dear old Origin Broadband are insisting that I query the issue with Hostinger; but the only way I can do so is via their cpanel – which is what I can’t connect to! So when I am

Saw a neat tweet from @sam_bambs today: You can spell the word ‘upside down’ upside down by using other letters of the alphabet: umop apisdn Ranks along with “eleven plus two” = “twelve plus one”.

Unable to connect to my own website or Cpanel this morning, even though checkers show that both are up, so looks like a routing issue – which a traceroute confirmed: packets go from my ISP (Origin Broadband) to some outfit called Call27 (who don’t even have a working website yet…), and then timeout. Of course,

aka “Unfortunately Guardian”. The bloody Guardian android app is becoming totally unusable with its constant “Unfortunately, Guardian has stopped” messages. And past experience shows that it’s a waste of time reporting issues to them. To think, I used to be a paid subscriber: you’re no fun any more, Genghis…

Aches and pains… The doc confirmed today that I have Tennis Elbow, and used the word “degenerate” (verb, not noun): once you hear that word, you know it’s all going downhill – and even downhill will probably leave you out of breath. Also had my first flu jab while I was there. Supposedly available once