Seven Days In

My friend Rachel is taking part in the #maywriteabit project and is going to write for half an hour each day (unedited) for the month o...

Walking into the back room where my computer, keyboard and stringed instruments lived I thought I'd left the light on , I hadn'...

Yesterday I sort of didn't read, I had finished the 400 page "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins which I have passed on...

That's what I woke up to, and it wasn't particularly early , the day shortening seems to have come fairly quickly this year. La...

French Favourite As I have mentioned Feedburner has been a huge boost to th esite visits. As far as I can gather it is a result o...

Last month I expected to get 30-50 hits per day on the blog with maybe 20-30 for each post. At the end of April Feedburner seems to h...

It looks like the huge increase in visits is due to being picked up by something called Feedburner which is some kind to data feed....

Today is the thirtieth anniversary or the World Wide Web as we know it, and it came into my head that my two wonderful daughters are b...

I was going to write a Christmas Day Free post yesterday but in the end couldn't be bothered. This morning I realised that I had n...

Another made up word, although it may be real. Sometimes Google is a positive. Turns out there are bands, artists , twitter users wit...

It's a hell of a long time since my daughter Juliet palmed off her old mobile to me introducing me to having a mobile phone. Since...

There is so much idiocy about security. Banks tell us to hide our PIN, enter it under a cover so you can't see what you are typing...

I don't know why that word came to me but it did. If you do a Google search this is what it brings back. It's among other t...

When I sign in to do this blog I have to press "Sign In" on three different screens. Now OK I habitually delete cookies and ...

I just got a new phone, a Google Pixel. Getting a new phone is a bit like jumping off a metaphorical cliff, there's no going back...

I love showering but always find drying myself a bind and was thinking what a great idea a full body air drier would be. No wet towels...

On Wednesday I ditched the iPad and got a Kindle Fire. Basically the iPad was an excellent device but tried to tie you into Apple an...

And it hardly looks like summer, the ground is wet and the clouds are grey and it's cold out at the moment. Yesterday the five o...

For some reason I decided I wanted a theremin, then found this theremin app on Amazon. If you want I'd suggest you get the free ve...

It is quite amazing the number of people who focus on the bad things and miserable events. These are usually people who have more than ...