Random thought for the day
Don’t appear to be too smart. People will expect more from you. It’s amazing how many people are getting really good at this deception.
Rant Mode On
Fly Spray – non-toxic
We have screens on doors and windows so don’t often see a fly inside the house. Occasionally one will sneak in when a door is open. Years ago we used Raid branded fly spray but I noticed that it had lost its “knock down power”, so we switched to Mortein […]
LED lighting
Next we have LED lighting – after compact fluorescent – after halogen – after incandescent. Following are some of my thoughts on lighting. Any experts or professionals who disagree, feel free to comment, but you are wrong. Incandescent and Halogen Incandescent worked but was not very efficient in that a […]
Plasti-kote – spray cans
I don’t know what they’ve done but it’s gone from being great to being a waste of money. You buy a full can and the thing blocks up and fails about half way through – Even when you follow the instructions for clearing the nozzle after each use. It used […]
Asus – downloads
I needed a motherboard manual to sort out some USB headers. So rather than searching through all my files I went to Google on the laptop which took me straight to the product page on the Asus web site. To download anything Asus wanted to know what OS, so I […]
Mozilla Thunderbird Bug – open with 1
Problem Using the laptop instead of the main PC I needed to refer to an email attachment. No problem, open Thunderbird and find the email. The attachment is a.bmp file; no worries, double click to open it. Problem; Thunderbird doesn’t know how and offers 2 options, “open with”and “save file”. […]
Computers Piss me off 1
Why is nothing ever simple????? I’ve been experimenting with this WordPress Blog with Wiki plugin. The idea was to make much more use of it as a blog, to keep notes and document projects. In theory this should work. It should provide a framework that I just have to feed […]
Keep a local copy
You create a document or take a photo and where do you put it? Up until recently it sat on the hard drive on your computer and you may have shared it over a network or posted it on a website so that other could see it or possibly even […]