Bits and pieces that aren’t necessarily tech or computer related.
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
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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
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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
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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
Many years ago I worked for a bank and the calculators were mechanical and huge. There was no such thing as electronic ones. They had many buttons and a roll of tape that recorded every calculation. We would use them to balance the ledgers for
Thanks to the onslaught of the obviously highly contagious coronavirus, people are now living their lives in an entirely changed and unusual environment, where isolation is the new norm. COVID-19 – The Good All major grocery stores here in Australia have suspended normal deliveries but
Traffic And Dogs Okay, we’ve only been confined to our home since last Friday morning, but already I’m feeling the effects of this abnormal situation which in turn makes me question the very idea of normal. Where we live, the road outside the living room
Home Is Where The Heart Is Or so they say, but with millions of people now confined to their homes, that expression may seem a little hollow to many. However, there are advantages to spending more time at home, especially if your normal life involves
When I first started taking pictures it was with a film camera and my dad explained that the person I was focusing on should be in the middle of the picture. From that point on that is what I did. My pictures always had the
”No hay mal que por bien no venga” roughly translates to every cloud has a silver lining, words that may strike many as somewhat hollow during this COVID-19 pandemic. But, as with so many aspects of life, where there is a negative, a positive has
I thought I’d share details of my home workstation and workbench with you good folk. I call it ”workstation” and ”workbench” just to sound fancy. In reality, it is just a section of my dingy old garage. No mod cons here. Here is my workstation
