Following my recent articles on how to build a Family Memories Website, one may be left with the impression that I’m some sort of WordPress guru, but that’s a long way from the truth. However, I have learned to take the path of least resistance, […]
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My family memories website is up and running and like all things tech, it’s been a learning curve, an enjoyable one. For a start, I use features of WordPress that I don’t use here on DCT, such as inserting galleries of pictures which can be
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I first started playing around with building a family website back in 2000 using Microsoft Front Page and the result, although not stellar, was a small site with photos and stories of my family. Today, building a website of any description is light years ahead
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I would hate for this to be a shameless plug for my book, The Last British President, and that is not the intention, I promise. But getting a book translated and published correctly and using the technology currently available is a major undertaking and isn’t
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Ludonarrative Dissonance This morning I was reading a gaming article and these two words literally jumped off the page and into my mind. I love different ways of forming words and terms, so I needed to discover what this meant. But before hitting Google I
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Tomb Raider Is Back! After nearly four years of silence from Crystal Dynamics, the company has finally confirmed that a new Tomb Raider game is being developed. And that’s not all, because Lara’s new adventure will run on the brand new Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)
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It’s been a while since I played around with voice recognition, as it used to be called and so, when I recently came across a couple of articles by fellow author Carol Bratt* where she explains to us how to use dictation in Office 365,
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Warning – contains spoilers! Bad Vegan Last night we finished watching the documentary, Bad Vegan, on Netflix and boy was I glad when it reached the end. I became so annoyed with the protagonist, Sarma Melngailis, for having fallen into the swindler’s trap that I
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A woman called me yesterday asking how she could get rid of the green FPS (frames per second) counter that was showing while she played League Of Legends on Steam. She said she had tried everything, to no avail. I told her not to worry
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eBooks and self-publishing have transformed the book publishing world for the better in so many ways, not least by enabling authors to get their work out into the wider world in ways that wouldn’t have been possible a couple of decades ago. Back in the
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If you use Twitter, you’ll know that it’s mainly used for arguing with each other, usually between people who have never met and probably never will meet. Don’t you just love the Internet? A place where you get to exchange punches with trolls who love
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Living up to my nom de plume, Mr. Off Topic, I couldn’t help but notice that some books are now banned in many US schools, so I ventured forth to discover which books were so vile as to deserve this treatment. The results of my
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In a quite staggering act of double standards, Meta, the parent company of Facebook has apparently sent emails to Facebook’s moderators to allow posts from certain countries that call for the deaths of Russian soldiers, even going so far as allowing posts calling for the
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I’ve been on a retro game streak recently and it’s clear that older games are still as popular as ever. I’m talking about games launched around the year 2000 and even before, with hundreds still being available on platforms such as Steam and GOG (Good
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