Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
It’s more than eighteen months since my last post in this series and I’ve had a busy time. Thankfully, the pandemic is just a bad memory and life has returned to normal, although much has changed, some of it for the better. New PC builds …
I’ve just returned from an eight-day, 3000km motorcycle adventure to Patagonia, Argentina and while I usually lean off-topic here on DCT, it is possible to describe the trip with at least some tech involvement, I promise you. I had been planning the trip since last …
Hey look, I’m not Australian, know little about the land Down Under, but I do know a bloke… In fact, we all know the bloke in question – our esteemed raconteur, a man of many wise words, and faithful friend – none other than our …
Yesterday while watching a YouTube game review I scrolled down to the comments, which is always a futile exercise, only to discover that I didn’t recognise what I was reading. This could be down to my age now that I’m on the wrong side of …
The football (soccer) World Cup in Qatar was controversial from the moment it was chosen to host the tournament back in 2010 with allegations of shady deals and later, human rights abuses. But I don’t think anyone can deny that the country put on a …
ItchyBoots, whose real name is Noraly Schoenmaker, is a Dutch motorcycle adventurer who has ridden more miles around the world than most of us will ever do, not to mention the years she has spent backpacking and working as a geologist. I first came across …
What is Labor Day? “Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. …
CONTAINS SPOILERS! ALIEN films by date released: Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Alien 3 (1992) Alien Resurrection (1997) Alien vs. Predator (2004) Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Prometheus (2012) Alien: Covenant (2017) ALIEN (1979) Some films stay with you forever and ALIEN, released in 1979, is …
There was a prediction for two stars in a binary system to collide and form a massive explosion, a Red Nova. A star called KIC 9832227 in the constellation Cygnus located about 1,940 ± 30 light-years away. A YouTube channel called THEREALPAX has a live …
I recently came across a backup of my old web page from Oct 2002. I decided to share some highlights from back in 2002. First, I wrote about using an uncompressed drive. This was back in the Win 95, 98, 98SE, and later the ME …
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 …
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 …
Why Microsoft Rewards Are Worth It? With Edge being my default browser and Bing my default search engine, I tend to get a lot of Award points added to my account. Originally named Bing Rewards, Microsoft renamed it to Microsoft Rewards to extend the rewards …
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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