Category Archives: general

Family, day-to-day, stuff, etc.

All hail the papernet

A couple of days ago BERG released its Little Printer onto the World. Being released in 2012 its one of things that could be (and is) easily dismissed by some quarters, but warmly embraced in others. In this age of … Continue reading

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My issues with YouTube & Google accounts

I’ve been ignoring the emails for a couple of months now, but the time came last night to decide what to do with my second YouTube account.  You see, before Google even had accounts, I had a YouTube account as DMWebsites.  Then, … Continue reading

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New Facebook is too much work

Facebook have gone and made some changes again. Of course there’s the normal slew of “show your disgust” posts whenever Team Zuckerberg make the slightest tweak, but these latest changes just reinforce my reluctance to spend much time on the … Continue reading

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Being hit by odd comment spam

Today alone I’ve had 56 comments, for various posts on this site, all spam. This is day 3 like this. Now I know this isn’t a highly trafficked site and I do get waves of spam every now and again, … Continue reading

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Stepping off the Path

Path is a photo sharing service that’s been around for a little while now.  I hadn’t tried it before as they didn’t have an Android app, but now they do I though I’d give it a go. First off the … Continue reading

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My frustration with Android apps (especially Google)

So I’ve had my smartphone for sometime now, and like most I find it invaluable.  I quickly ran up against the problem of having limited space (145mb) to install apps on.  Bear in mind this also held most of the … Continue reading

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Helping out with Cleveland Give Camp

Had a great time at June’s NEOUPA meeting.  It was a free event and they partnered with Cleveland Give Camp to help with the upcoming Give Camp weekend. After some pizza we got to meet one of the charities being … Continue reading

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Why I will avoid buying HP again

So Julie‘s desktop hard drive went South.  While Windows kept giving us these “imminent failure” messages, I backed-up her data and called HP. Now we’d bought the HP Pavillion a little after Christmas so I knew it was past its … Continue reading

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Trimming the list

So I decided to run a little twitter experiment and for one week, I followed anyone who followed me. I started the week with 619 followers and ended with 657. not a huge increase but enough to make a difference. … Continue reading

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My Twitter experiment closes

A week ago I wrote about following my followers on Twitter. Now my little experiment comes to a close. Today is the last day I’ll automatically follow back.  Its been interesting to see some patterns emerge as well as getting … Continue reading

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