Pandemic Platitude Post

 

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC UPDATE

Please keep 2m away from your screen when reading this.

Normal inane ramblings will resume once "normal" returns.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Normal, please return Normal to Mainstream Society ASAP.  Thanks.

Subscribe To LDTV For A Chance To Win...

Subscribe to my LDTV YouTube Channel for a chance to win absolutely nothing.  Well, no, not quite true, you will have the chance to win either some sleep, some technical knowledge, or just knowledge of the fact that computers bore you and talking about computers bores you even more to the point of never having anything to do with stories and stuff about them unless there's the chance of getting or winning something in return.

Which reminds me - subscribe to my LDTV YouTube Channel LDTV for a chance to.....

Fact-Up Friday: TimBL - Bournemouth Bloke Who Invented The Web

Did you know that the World Wide Web was in fact invented by an Englishman?  Not only that, but he used to call the South Coast home?

OK, the title is a little white lie - he wasn't from Bournemouth, but the inventor of Web sites lived in Colehill, Wimborne, for a time and worked for Plessey in Poole, J D Nash in Ferndown, and for over 3 years he worked at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in sunny sunny Bournemouth!  In fact, he is a patron of the East Dorset Heritage trust to this day.

Linuxdoc is doing an HTTP 301

Apologies for not posting any drivel for a week or so, I have been preoccupied with giving myself an actual (as opposed to virtual) HTTP 301 redirect (301 for you unenlightened heathens is the HTTP response code for Moved Permanently).

Turing gets his mug on a Nifty, but no Colossal Flowers

I think it's superb news that Sir Alan Turing has been chosen for the face of the new £50 note.  While Turing developed the electromechanical Bombe first used in Poland, he did not design and build Colossus.  Colossus was designed and built by a man from the General Post Office, a man who dreamed of one day having a telephone exchange that was fully automatic with an electronic machine replacing the many human ears and hands and plug boards and wires.  This man was Tommy Flowers.

Bournemouth featured on new UK passport

I recently renewed my passport, and whilst flicking through it I saw something that looked slightly familiar... It seems Her Majesty's Passport Office has decided Bournemouth is so awesome it deserves it's own double page spread:

What's in me blog?

I thought I might keep a record of some of the crap I get up to.  I'm sure it'll bore the hell out of most people, but this blog isn't really for most people.  It's mostly about situations when I've had some piece of technology or program or similar that hasn't really done what I've wanted it to, or it has done what I've wanted but I now want to see what else it can do. It's about breaking technology to create technology. It's about hacking, in the old/new/old sense of the word.

And that's it. Mostly. It might also contain little snippets or how-tos of simple things that I find either extremely cool or extremely useful.

Peace out, y'all.