Rant page aka blog...
If you want something hold up a sign
Big Amazon is watching you catch a train
UPDATED June 2024: Paying for a new 'smarttech' dumbphone is dumb
With the benefit of foresight...lessons from Mad Mike Mosley's Misadventure
Mad Mike, an Englishman, goes out in the midday Greek sun
UPDATED June 4th 2024: The NHS (National Hacker Service) Strikes Again!
How Nicholas Cage can help you sell your old junk for cash
Samsung phones are the worst of the worst?!
Cashless society? It's a trap!
Yeah, about those self-driving cars...
UPDATED 22 May 2024: Crisis? What crisis?
Lessons from the Post Office Horizon prosecutions case
Journalists busy shilling for the Zuck
How I learned to stop worrying and hate the Mac
Websites are not the only things that need downsizing
I'm sorry Dave...Algorithms leave workers in the dark
HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey has become a defining warning about putting too much trust in artificial intelligence, as per this article -particularly if you work in space.
It's blogging Jim...but not as we know it
Yes, I know...
Yes I know this page is a mess. Yes I know the CSS is all over the place. It's a long time since I've handcoded straight onto an html text doc. Yes it should be like riding a bike but it's really not; it's really like one of those use-it-or-lose-it type deals...Yesterday for instance I spent longer than I care to admit trying to work out why an image wouldn't display before finally discovering it was the wrong kind of quotes. Instead of " I had copied some code which used ” (look closely) and Neocities didn't like it.
LXLE works out of the box? Not quite...
LXLE installed OK on my old 2009 MacBookPro and runs OK but the screen brightness, keyboard backlightand volume keys do not work - except curiously the mute button works. Also NordVPN was interminably difficult to install which was odd because I've installed it plenty of times on Ubuntu-based systems. There are supposed to be fixes for this but I might go back and see if I can get Manjaro Mate working on this thing.
Social media explained
If you want to get ahead get a milkman!
Privacy? What privacy? Who cares about privacy?
Talking to the police and... other wastes of time
No Time To Die? Live and let Bond die
Tweet if you must but Tweet not all you think
Feel tempted to give advice? DON'T
Paperless office? Pah! I have a paperless kitchen!
If you want to get ahead... get an antique!
So much for encryption
Never relax...around apps
What are your favourite wastes of time?
How much effort is too much effort?
Once more unto the blog but a paper or digital life?
Twitter, what Twitter?!
Secrets, what secrets? Just imagine the uproar!
Free coffee? What free coffee?!