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I read this on BBCNews.com on December 30 which the BBC found in the Daily Mirror: Dead passengers on British Airways flights used to be given sunglasses, a vodka and tonic and a copy of the Daily Mail to disguise them from … Continue reading →

Just in case someone else has the issue of the menus not showing up in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and VMware Workstation 10.0.4. Simple problem: The only menu item that shows up is File. The rest are there if you click … Continue reading →

Seems that digging a little further that my problem may be solved by enabling the “Disable touchpad while typing” option. Hopefully it works!

After over four years my Dell XPS 15 laptop (L501X) had gotten a little long in the tooth. The video card – an nVidia GT350M – is only slightly faster, by the narrowest of margins, than the Intel® HD Graphics 4400 … Continue reading →

I found this article on Gizmodo while eating lunch about The World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Carrying Over 17,000 Crates, NBD. These are the Maersk Triple E class. Now this is is large however one commenter puts the maximum capacity of 18,270 TEU (twenty-foot … Continue reading →

I found these pictures I took during winter 2000-2001. Now, THAT was a winter that I do NOT want to repeat. I found this report One for the History Books: The Winter of 2000–01 in St. John’s, Newfoundland by Bruce Whiffen with the Meteorological … Continue reading →

I have never been satisfied with the design of the websites. I have accepted a long, long, long time ago that I did not have much in the way of artistic ability. However since getting a real smartphone for myself – a … Continue reading →

As most people know, this is the one hundredth anniversary of the start of World War One. The Great War. The War To End All Wars. It wasn’t of course. I tend to think of this as World War (Part … Continue reading →

Yeah, yeah, yeah…. This is the first post in a long time. I did say waaaay back that I was terrible at keeping this up-to-date. Anyway, on August 9th we had, for the Avalon Peninsula a wicked thunderstorm. My son … Continue reading →

I originally bought a PlayStation 3 with my first HD TV. It was the best Blu-ray player on the market. It still may be… Anyway, once my son reached 9 the PS3 soon abandoned me for him. Well, to tell … Continue reading →