Happy Labor Day 2024!
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Off Topic
Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
AI Can Do Some Great Things
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
Living Without Internet – Part 1
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
Quiz: Test Your Knowledge – Answers
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
Robot Commits Suicide
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
Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
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
Itchy Boots Has Accident In Africa
Itchy Boots Crashes In Tanzania In October 2022 I wrote about how globe-trotting motorcyclist, Itchy Boots – Noraly Schoenmaker – became a YouTube sensation. Since then, she has completed her tours of The Americas and South Africa and in February 2023, began her latest tour
Titanic II – Lavish Folly Or A Reality?
Titanic II Ten years ago, Clive Palmer, the Australian mining billionaire from Queensland, announced plans at The Ritz Hotel, London, to build an exact, to-scale replica of the doomed liner, RMS Titanic. Many observers, myself included, were aghast at this idea, saying that the
Memorial Day 2024
“Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day 2024 will occur on Monday, May 27. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years
10 Years Of Writing For DCT
Like many visitors to Dave’s Computer Tips, I came across the website in December 2013, looking for a solution to a PC problem. Well, I found what I was looking for and then posted in the DCT forum where I was noticed by Dave Hartsock,
Please Don’t Text And Drive!
As a motorcyclist I usually have a birds-eye view of motorists in their cars and, in spite of local authority warnings, I can honestly say that about 75% of the drivers I pass are fiddling around with a mobile phone in one hand and steering
“Everything’s Fine!” And Other TV Quotes
“Don’t worry, everything’s going to be fine…“ This is probably the most used saying in disaster, spy, homicide, kidnapping, and apocalypse-genre TV shows and films. And of course, when you see our hero speak those words, you know there’s trouble ahead and everything is not
The Zombie Universe – On TV
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS! The Walking Dead Consider this an update on my other zombie article, Let’s Talk Zombies from July 2021, because a lot can happen in the zombie universe during the intervening years. As I mentioned in 2021, I managed to reach the end
Living With Hyperinflation
I was going to title this as How To Live With Hyperinflation, but since there are no real answers to that particular conundrum, I would have found it difficult to summarise in just a few words. Furthermore, this is not a political rant, because we