Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
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 […]
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“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
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,
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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Back in 2007, “The Simpsons Movie” came out and Burger King sponsored a website called “SimpsonizeMe.com” (the site is no longer active). It allowed you to upload your picture to turn you into a Simpsons character. I tried it once but the result, I didn’t
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(Ed note: If you missed the original post, you should read it first. Spoilers follow.) 1. Forget it – four “get it”s 2. Black Jack – word Jack surrounded by black 3. Somewhere over the rainbow – I think this one is obvious 4. Back
I came across this puzzle on X (formally known as Twitter). It seems to be one of those things that get posted and re-posted on both Facebook and Twitter. I like this one because I think I know the answers. I say “think” because I
I blame the internet for my short attention span when watching movies. 🙂 I like horror/science fiction, mainly. And it’s nearly Halloween, so here are my Top 5 short horror video picks from YouTube. Descriptions are mostly from YouTube. Click on a title to watch
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Beeline GPS I’ve written numerous articles related to GPS and mapping software, the most detailed being Which Maps Do You Use? from November 2022. Back then, I concluded that Beeline GPS was my preferred device. However, I simply couldn’t get used to tiny arrows instead
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In a move said to be bowing to the cancel culture, woke mob, Queen has removed Fat Bottomed Girls from an edition of its 1981 Greatest Hits Vol 1 album for Yoto, a children’s music streaming and audio platform. One of the reasons given by
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I’ve written about Argentina’s crisis economy on numerous occasions as far back as 2015 and here we are again, eight years later, with the country on the brink of yet another financial disaster, similar in proportions to the meltdown of 2001, or possibly worse. If
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