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The Perseids 14 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
I spent a hour or two outside in the garden looking for evidence of the Perseid meteor shower. I really should have been out on Monday – when the shower was at its peak – but, as usual, cloud cover wo...
Remembrance Day 12 Aug 2013 | 10:09 pm
I travelled to Scotland last week for a funeral. It was not an unexpected trip, but one that came too soon, nonetheless. David, my niece’s husband, was diagnosed with a brain tumour a year ago, and h...
Canal Parade 2013: Flyboarding and More 5 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
I didn’t make the trip to Amsterdam this year for the annual Canal Parade, but by all accounts, it was a great success. The Armed Forces had a boat in the Parade, and the Minister of Defense was on bo...
The Xbox Music App Is Lying To Me 2 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
Last month, I mentioned that I was having difficulty with the Xbox Music App installed on one of my systems. It does not see my music collection, and claims that there’s no music on the PC. A couple o...
SkyDrive – Still No Proper Support For Tags 31 Jul 2013 | 05:26 pm
Yesterday, Microsoft added some functions to SkyDrive – its online storage service. The additions are described in this blog post by Omar Shahine, a Group Program Manager at SkyDrive. Now, some of t...
I’m Clearly Missing Something… 30 Jul 2013 | 02:22 pm
I don’t understand what all the fuss is about over news aggregator services, such as the (now-defunct) Google Reader. For years now, I’ve simply used the “Feeds” feature in my Internet Explorer to ag...
There’s the Demo, Then There’s the Reality… 28 Jul 2013 | 12:04 am
A new input device for your computer is available. I don’t think we’ve quite got to Minority Report fluidity yet… http://bcove.me/bydxiwxr (hat tip to Ars Technica)
Microsoft’s SkyDrive – Room for Improvement 23 Jul 2013 | 04:21 pm
SkyDrive is the online storage service offered by Microsoft. It’s been around since 2007, and has been through a number of iterations. It really started to come into its own with the introduction of W...
A Sense of Wonder 23 Jul 2013 | 02:20 pm
The moon has stirred the imagination of humans for millennia. It still does. Here’s a view of the rising moon captured by Mark Gee. Worth watching. Full Moon Silhouettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo. (...
Watch Anytime, Anywhere… 17 Jul 2013 | 06:45 pm
I notice that some DVDs are now advertised as including a digital copy of the film, intended for playback on PCs, Smartphones and Tablets. I seem to recall that at one time, the digital copy was physi...
