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
We never have power cuts! Read More »
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!
Shocked, I tell you! Read More »
… woke up to find my PC strangely silent… It refused to boot and so it was open-the-case time… It did initially get power, CPU fan spinning, but that soon cut out, and no attempt to access the drives. After a bit of fiddling I got the CPU fan to keep running, but nothing loading
I just had a nap. And then… Read More »
Mel’s work for today was cancelled at last minute, so we decided to go off for lunch at the Ladybower Inn, seeing as it’s been a year since our last visit. But a bit surprised on arrival to see an array of beer kegs out front, and a notice telling people not to park there.
Can’t stay away from the place! Read More »
Don’t really use a VPN very often, and PIA has been quite good enough. But it’ll soon be time to renew the PIA subscription after 3 years, so I had a random think. I’ve been more than happy with Proton Mail, and not had a single piece of spam in all the months I’ve been