This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour – World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour. The WWF want a billion people around the world to sign up and switch off their lights for one hour. If they achieve their billion people [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Politics, Scams
Yesterday was mad: A man was jailed for having a crash in his truck A man was jailed for flushing somebody’s heroin down the loo Captains of two nuclear submarines went unpunished for bumping into eachother Tony Blair was given $1 million for being a great leader I think I’ll get my coat……
There is a lot of noise being made about the proposed windfarm at Cheverton Down. The main complaint seems to be about the visual impact on the area, but to my engineering eye, wind turbines look rather pleasing. They certainly appeal rather more than this: In all its glory this is the latest Red Funnel [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Photography, Politics
I recently ordered a couple of 2Gb compact flash cards to update TomTom gps units. memorybits.co.uk came up with a decent price so I ordered from them on Jan 6th with a promise of 4 day delivery. The fact that I am blogging the subject should give you a clue that they didn’t deliver on [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Scams, Techie
Outlook provides a neat autofill facility when completing email addresses, all very useful until somebody changes their email address. As the system populates the autofill from a list of previously sent messages, the old email address keeps on showing up. I had exactly this happen today and thought it was probably about time to give [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
Ever wondered how long it would take to upload some data? Well of course it depends on at least a couple of things – namely how much data and how fast the connection is. Obviously you know how much data needs to be moved, and the speed for your broadband connection can be found by [...]
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Filed under: Search Engines, Techie
