It’s said that during both Gulf Wars the US military blocked commercial GPS, but in fact this was known as selective availability to confuse the enemy, which luckily wasn’t the case during our road trip to the north of Argentina last week, where we met […]
Is it a brick? It’s been a bit slack in the shop recently, which is an understatement, as during January and February, Buenos Aires resembles a ghost town, much like Paris in August. Fortunately for me, there are still a few souls left in town
Dirty windows Whenever possible I like to put my machines to bed in an orderly fashion, which usually means hitting SHUT DOWN or SLEEP. However, there are times when unknown forces conspire against me and I feel trapped in a dark world of swirling demons,
I’ve just realised that it’s two years since I started using Netflix or to put it another way, binging on Netflix. Is that healthy? I don’t know, but I’m not complaining since I must have totally ignored TV for the best part of ten
…two nations divided by a common language… When I started writing articles for DCT a couple of years ago, the team would get together for a Skype session once a week, comprising three Americans, one Australian and a Brit (there’s a joke there somewhere). You
Real time GPS tracking in action Last year the owner of Jawa Argentina completed a timed ‘raid’ on a motorcycle, joining the most northern and southern points of Argentina, that is to say, La Quiaca, Jujuy to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, a distance of
A one man revolution I first became aware of David Bowie in the early 70s whilst serving the last three years of a twelve year boarding school sentence at the age of fourteen when, to have the album was a passport to popularity; a kind
It’s just been confirmed that Rise of The Tomb Raider will be released for PC on January 28th through Steam, Windows Store and other outlets. This is great news for fans of Lara Croft, especially since we were spurned by Microsoft when they decided to
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Steven Avery – Guilty or Not? The ten episodes of this gripping Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer spanning a decade of the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey trials were bleak and often disturbing viewing, regardless of your opinion as to their guilt or innocence. That’s
A few years ago, if you Googled Facebook suicide you’d more than likely come up with a page full of results showing you how to delete your account and wander off into your own private world of freedom. But not today; today the result is
Following a dramatic election campaign in Argentina that seemed to go on for ever, including a historic and nerve rattling runoff, President Macri was sworn in last Thursday. If that wasn’t enough drama, the ex president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner refused to attend either
This picture isn’t really the best representation of gamers, but bear with me; the fact that Wartune is said to be the worst possible example of oversexualisation does matter though, because it’s a fleeting demonstration of how the gaming industry is viewed by many people
Writing a game review isn’t all that difficult and is normally fun to write, read and watch, unless of course it’s produced with a clear agenda to ram home, in which case those viewing or reading the review are going to be in a pretty
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Socks to go Running a computer shop means that you never quite know what surprises are going to come through the door from one day to the next, particularly in Buenos Aires. Little old ladies often wander in and ask me if I repair shoes
