Yesterday I posted a general update containing a picture of some "work in progress" (WiP). Now I don't normally post...

Introduction I make a lot of use of Firefox containers in my daily workflow via two extensions: Multi-Account Containers . Th...

Introduction I've seen lots of event t-shirts & polo shirts: both printed and embroidered. I began to wonder just how hard cou...

Introduction Whilst setting setup my wife's new smartphone, I (re)discovered the delights of FOSS accessed via F-Droid for ...

Introduction My love of a good spreadsheet and a pretty data table has become far more widely known than I ever imagined. Recently, it...

Background Back in the mists of time I used to write my own web pages in a simple text editor then upload them to a web server by FT...

Introduction Last weekend saw a sudden surge in wargamers leaving Twitter for the Bluesky social network. I wonder why? Thanks t...

For over ten years I've been using gPodder to manage my subscriptions to music and hobby podcasts.  Recently, I realised that gPodd...

I'm sure we have all noticed the torrent of news about AI.  I've remained sceptical, but I've found some of the AI image pr...

In this post, which I admit falls into the category of "a blogger writing about blogging", I want to discuss the histor...

Anyone who spends any time online knows the benefits of using the Internet as well as the annoyances.  The key is to strike a balance b...

As I've said before, things change and sometimes not always for the better.  Recently, I've been trying to figure out what to d...

Things change and sometimes not always for the better.  Recently, I've been trying to figure out why my desktop computer kept dropp...

Way back in 2021 I wrote about how I use Twitter .  I say way back because I'm using "technology time" which passes far...

Over the last week I've gone through all 470 odd pages on this blog to:  Remove dead links to long defunct sites like dmbmm....

I've been considering writing this post for quite some time.  The main reason for my procrastination being I wasn't sure how us...

This site is based on Google's Blogger. One of the features I like is the slide show. You know the feature; you click on an image l...

This is not really a hobby related post.  It's also going to get very "techie" very quickly. I've spent the last two or ...

In August I wrote about the demise of the RSS feed feature associated with the new interface for Yahoo! Groups. In the intervening three mon...