Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
As many of you know, I ride a motorcycle for both work and pleasure, but I never hankered for motorcycling and hadn’t even sat on a bike before. It was more of a fait accompli because we had sold a car, I needed wheels and […]
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Although I was trained as a salesman back in the ’80s when the mantra was and still is, the customer is always right, it’s a device used in rigorous sales training in order to allow the customer to think they are right. This is much
I spent most of my life living in the United Kingdom where you can experience four different seasons in just one day. Christmas can either be wet and windy, crisp, clear and frosty, or buried in snow drifts. Clearly, one gets accustomed to the climates
In April 2004, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set off on motorcycles from London and travelled east in search of adventure. Their destination was New York, some 20,000 miles away, and into a world that was very different from what it is today. No Google
This week I decided to change gears and share something different. It has been a few years since I have given you my Top 10 Tech Gifts list. I used to do one of these each year. Since I have been shopping for birthdays and
The old lady and the naughty cat, the burning gaming machine, and the angry masseuse. All in a day’s work for Marc the PC technician. The cat, the tablet and the mysterious virus A few weeks ago an elderly lady phoned me sounding more than
Take a look back at what topics were trending in 2016. Top 10 List For the curious, I’ve compiled a list of the most-viewed articles published by Dave’s Computer Tips in the year 2016. I’ll start with number 11, and work my way up (down?)
With only a couple of more weeks before Halloween here are my 5 top picks from YouTube for the best short horror videos. Descriptions are from YouTube. Click here for last year’s picks: My Top 5 Short Horror Picks From YouTube 1. Thingamajig A man
Just because two of my articles related to AI (Artificial Intelligence) were about its failures with math (https://davescomputertips.com/artificial-intelligence-failed-a-math-test/ & https://davescomputertips.com/another-ai-math-flop/) doesn’t necessarily mean AI is a failure. What I will be describing here is one of the best uses of AI that I’ve seen so
Warning – this post contains much ranting! Last Wednesday at 11.15 am, our Internet service unexpectedly went down and my immediate thought was that it was a glitch and it would probably come back in a few minutes. Five days later and we still have
1. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. Who was the second man to walk on the Moon? C) Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin During the early planning stages for the first lunar landing, Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) “Buzz” Aldrin expected to be
According to the Daily Mail, a civil servant robot working at Gumi City Council in South Korea committed suicide and the locals are now mourning the loss. This is the first reported robot suicide. I will call him Robby. Robby was found unresponsive after what
55th Anniversary Of Man Landing On The Moon On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced to a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American to the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end
