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Sometimes I think that I keep this blog simply to act like an aide-mémoire for me… 🙂 Anyway, for those of you using Linux Mint and Logitech mice and keyboards (which I really like) the way to manage the devices and the … Continue reading →

Just found this on ZDNet’s “CES Fails of the 21st Century“…

After having to purchase another gottverdammt Apple iPad charger for Christmas (do these things have legs and simply walk away?) I happened today to note on ZDNet’s You may also like section at the end of an article for a product called thingCharger that looks … Continue reading →

Happy New Year everyone! As a start to the new year Stratfor has an article on the evolution of the calendar and possible solutions to various issues such as New Year’s Day being on different days of the week not … Continue reading →

If you are interested in military strategy or just read too many Tom Clancy novels this will appeal to you. It is Alex Wellerstein’s Nukemap. Just for fun (likely not the best word…) I used a 10 kiloton surface burst in St. John’s, … Continue reading →

I have my first Windows 8 tablet from work. It is an HP EliteBook Revolve 810 that replaces my old EliteBook 2740p.  The old 2740p was starting to show its age – the battery only had two of three cells … Continue reading →

  According to the article in Wednesday, 2013 October 30, of The Washington Post titled NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say this “back-of-the-cocktail-napkin” details how the NSA gets into Google’s data centres around the world. Apparently … Continue reading →

You’d have to be living in the middle of nowhere (e.g. central Siberia) and totally off the grid to have missed the news stories on the NSA data interception. Anyone in the data security world really just had their suspicions … Continue reading →

This is a great tweet from NASA’s Voyager 2 probe. Someone at NASA has a great sense of humour… But did I hear “Open the pod bay door, HAL”??? NASAVoyager2‏@NASAVoyager2 Due to government shutdown, we will not be posting or … Continue reading →