Decided to put in a call to Origin in order to fully understand my account with them. After being held in queue for 1 hour 10 mins, I finally got through to someone. My first question was whether or not I am in any sort of contract with them. I’ve been on a rolling month-to-month […]
After successfully getting wifi to stay up, Microsoft kindly decide to force me to update to the dreaded WIndows 11 24H2. OK, it seemed to work well, but I was back to the wifi adaptor struggling to connect to the router, or else bouncing up and down. Seems the update didn’t carry forward the power
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This can be a pretty miserable time of year, but we were lucky to wake up to a rather impressive cloud inversion over Sheffield this morning. This is looking south-east from Greno, and Keppel’s Column can be seen on an “island” to the left. Just a pity the camera on my phone is disappointingly crap.
When I first got this new PC back in August, I never had any issue with my wi-fi connection. Then occasionally the adapter would not connect automatically on power-up. Which gradually deteriorated to 90% of power-ups, and I had to go through disabling/enabling the adapter a few times till it would connect. Annoying and mysterious,
Or didn’t until yesterday… Storm Darragh’s been wreaking havoc along the west coast (especially Wales), but we usually get off lightly with these storms. This time, we got well and truly hit with a power cut around 4pm. And Northern Power Grid became a pain in the arse with their constant text updates: “We are
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Just had a ‘delivery’ from Evri. Saw the bloke approaching so I was waiting, 1m from the door. Heard the side gate being opened, so thought I’d better see what was going on… He’d dropped the 2 packages round the back of the house, and was a bit shocked to see me waiting on his
Was in for a repair filling today (LR8) and heard the dentist ask the assistant for the famous Fuji 9! Famous because of Bob Mortimer, of course. When I queried it with the dentist, it started a 10-minute conversation and demonstration during which he gave me a guided tour of all their Fuji 9 stuff.
Belatedly realised that I have free access to Proton Pass password manager, along with the ability to use a “fake” email address it offers when registering to a site (so as not to expose my real address). I’ve been using 1Password for some time, and it’s been absolutely fine – but it is subscription-based, so
I suppose it had to happen sometime, but I’ve now had my first spam getting through Proton Mail – after over 4 months. And it’s to one of my email aliases rather than my main address; an alias that is used in only one place – the contacts page on this site!
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