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Category Archives: Internet
So long. I may be back some time.
My first post on this blog was an introductory post, posted on January 24, 2013, and I’ve posted roughly once a week since that time. In recent times, it has become a real chore to keep up this schedule, and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, General, Internet, Miscellaneous
Tagged It's been good to know you, So long
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Cashing in the Cash
I can’t remember the last time I used cash. In fact, I actively avoid it. I don’t want crumpled grubby bits of paper in my pockets and heavy pocket wrecking pieces of metal weighing me down. When you have a … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, General, Internet, Miscellaneous, Politics, Society
Tagged banknotes, Bitcoin, Cash, cheques, coins, commodity currency, crypto, cryptocurrency, currency, fiat currency, gold, Money, money laundering, transfer funds
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Email me!
I’m going to do something different this week. This post is going to be more technical and will offer advice, yours to take or ignore as appropriate to you. To those who are technically less able, you might like to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Computing, General, Internet, Society
Tagged Domain Name, Email address, Facebook, Google, Internet, Internet service provider, ISP, SPAM, UCE, Unsolicited Commercial Email
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Looking for Inspiration
I suppose that everyone has seen the so-called “Inspirational Quotes“. If you haven’t, it is unlikely that you have been using the Internet a lot! Inspirational Quotes are short sentences, usually totally devoid of context that, supposedly, provide guidance or … Continue reading
Round it up!
Quite often a visit to Wikipedia starts of a train of thought that might end up as a post here, and often I forget the reason that I was visiting Wikipedia in the first place. However in this case I … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, General, Internet, Maths, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Science, Society
Tagged 256, coin, Decimal, float, floating point, Round, rounding, truncate
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Writing
I’ve written about my process or lack of one when writing these posts. They sort of grow from an idea, a seed, a notion, a comment on something I’ve read. I rarely have a plan. I rarely have even an … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, General, Internet, Miscellaneous, Science Fiction, Society
Tagged A Memoir of Jane Austen, Anne Elliot, Bank of England, Banknotes of the pound sterling, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen, Mark Carney, Mr. Darcy, Polymer banknote, Pride and Prejudice (Broadview Literary Texts)
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Two Hundred and Fifty
This post will be my 250th. 250 times approximation 1,000 words. A quarter of a million words. Wow. I didn’t think that I could do it. I hit the target. I reached the summit of Everest. I ran a marathon. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, General, Internet, Maths, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Weather
Tagged 2016, Cable television, CNN, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, MSNBC, Stop Trump movement
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