Back in late February, while Rose was away, Tilly (may she rest in peace) and I departed on one of our campervan trips. As is often the case when I’m doing these out-of-season jaunts, I set off not really knowing where I would end up, my itinerary being driven partly by the weather forecast, and Continue Reading| Status-Q
Back in January I wrote about how Microsoft had increased their Office subscription prices by a third, but you could still get it for the old price by saying that you wanted to cancel, and then selecting the ‘Microsoft 365 Family Classic’, which comes without all of the AI features that lead to the extra Continue Reading| Status-Q
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I’ve never really had the urge to buy an American pickup truck. And I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen a small electric car and wished it would be exported from the U.S. to Europe (rather than the other way around)! So, for me, the Telo electric truck is a first on two counts. Continue Reading| Status-Q
I was doing some electrical work on the lights in our guest bedroom this morning, and wanted to turn the power off at the fuse box before I did so. However, we have a lot of circuit breakers, and, though I have most of them carefully labelled, the three controlling the upstairs lights were not Continue Reading| Status-Q
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I’ve avoided talking about the whole ‘gender identity’ debate here because, frankly, only fools rush in…! And where there is rational discussion on this topic, it often isn’t happening online. But Richard Dawkins is braver than me, and seldom shies away from pointing out actual facts, even when it makes some people uncomfortable! So I Continue Reading| Status-Q
Current AI systems excel at generating large amounts of text. You can give ChatGPT a few bullet points, and it will turn them into a paragraph, an email, an essay. So we’re all going to get a lot more text in the future. AIs will soon force us to confront the fact that we live Continue Reading| Status-Q
My thanks to Terence Eden, who recently reposted on Mastodon the fact that Google are shutting down their ‘goo.gl’ URL-shortener in a month’s time. URL shorteners are those services that take long URLs and turn them into shorter ones by maintaining a database mapping the latter to the former. Tinyurl.com was perhaps the first; Continue Reading| Status-Q
It’s good to have something to make you laugh at the start of your day. Today, I was particularly taken by this article on a UK government website: It wasn’t the headline that made me laugh, of course – that’s pretty serious. No, what caught my attention (thanks to mhoye on Mastodon) was further Continue Reading| Status-Q
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