Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
I often cringe at the incorrect spelling and grammar I come across regularly in posts and comments across forums and social media. I’m not sure if this has eventuated because of the abbreviated language often used in messages these days or because of poor schooling. […]
Are Modern Communications Ruining The English Language? Read More »
Yesterday morning, I finally got into the Exclusive Website. Read: Mystery – The Exclusive Website And as one commenter stated, not much to see. It’s a black page that states, You are in the website. It only has three clickable links: The first is at
The contributors to Dave’s Computer Tips would like to extend our best wishes for all of you on this Thanksgiving day. Be safe during these trying times and above all, be kind to one another. —
Twitter has announced that David Icke, the British conspiracy theorist, has been permanently banned from its network. This follows his earlier bans from both YouTube and Facebook for apparently posting misinformation about the Covid 19 virus. Other notable bans and suspensions include Professor Jordan Peterson
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Devaluation In All But Name Here we go again, in what seems for many Argentines, a recurring nightmare, with the spectre of 2001 ever-present and hanging over the country like the sword of Damocles. That was the year when the country entered the record books
Enough of the computers, let’s take a break. Let’s keep our brains busy doing something else. Like riddles. Here are six. I don’t think they are too hard. Comment with what you think the answers are and in a week or so I’ll tell you
Computer repair work is filtering in again now that quarantine has been relaxed a tad. However, I’m not going into customers’ houses and am combining it with my motorcycle courier service, so in many ways, it’s the best of both worlds. Naturally, I charge for
Exclusive Website Here’s a quick and odd one for you. The Exclusive Website. Only allow 1 visitor at a time. Otherwise, you have to wait in line. The site tells you how many are in front of you. What’s behind the site, I have no
Brazilian Food To Go Last month I was called by a wealthy client to deliver Brazilian meals to 26 different addresses within Buenos Aires. My first thought was that it was going to be a nice little earner and if given the time, I could
A Day In The Life Of A Motorcycle Courier – Part Four Read More »
Since I don’t have any computer work at the moment, please forgive me for veering off-topic and into the realm of petrolheads yet again. However, there is some tech involved in being a motorcycle courier, I promise. My License Plate Was Stolen Up until last
A Day In The Life Of A Motorcycle Courier – Part Three Read More »
This is a photo of one of the wealthiest areas of Buenos Aires and no, that’s not me being a courier, but a cartonero, a person who wanders the streets collecting cardboard and other materials which they sell on for recycling. At the beginning of
A Day In The Life Of A Motorcycle Courier – Part Two Read More »
The Inconsistency Of The Lockdown Call it what you will — lockdown, shelter in place, stay-at-home, quarantine — it is enforced to varying degrees around the world and I don’t think anyone needs a history lesson on why the lockdowns were implemented in the first
This is way off-topic for a tech blog, but since my customers can’t bring their computers to me for repair, I’ve had to branch out into other trades because, like millions of other people, my income has gone down to a big fat zero. If
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — ‘child hero’ was the phrase generally
