Thursday, 14 November 2024
KEVIN'S BLAKES 7 SPACE STATION INTERIOR SCRATCH BIULD
Saturday, 21 October 2023
In the Lap of the Gods
Just a quick update on my laptop. I have now managed to fire it up with a brand new power cable and I am typing on it this very minute!
Alas, it is having a few serious teething problems as it re-boots! It is sporadically deleting whatever I type!
I will try to post some of the fine material I've received from readers this past month over the next few weeks if at all possible.
At some point I may have to fork out for a new laptop, much as it irks my Yorkshire pockets!
Bear with me.
Saturday, 14 October 2023
The Computer Says No
As regular as the demon in Jeepers Creepers, every six or seven years my latest laptop packs up.
It's happened again.
There's always a final scrabble to retrieve stuff somehow, which usually means forking out at the local PC repairs shop. This time it's my second JR21 toys draft book that's on there, so it'll be worth it to persevere with one last go, even if I have to shell out. Don't forget, I'm an adopted Yorkshireman!
As for blogging, I'm doing it on my mobile phone. It's much harder to edit long posts with lots of photos, so I apologize if you've sent me anything like this in the past couple of months readers; it'll just take me longer with one finger!
At some point this year I'll get a reconditioned laptop and get back fully on board.
Where's HAL when you need it!
Thursday, 21 April 2022
SCHLAPPTOP
I have just fired up my laptop again after a gap of 5 weeks to do some blogging. Its taken at least 25 minutes to start itself up and is chugging and buffering as if its having to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Klingon before it starts.
Its such a complete pain in the arsch.
This is in complete contrast to my new smartphone, which is an absolute breeze and worked instantly and perfectly every time I used it abroad this past month. It fires up in a milli-second. There is no wait at all. Its just small.
So I have to ask myself - apart from Apple and it's iPad tablet - why don't mobile phone companies simply make a version of a smartphone that's much bigger and folds in the middle like a laptop.
A lap-phone?
Thursday, 16 April 2020
DEVS
This union of code and playing God has spawned some great sci-fi movies like the Forbin Project, the original Tron, The Lawnmower Man, War Games and probably the sub-genre's poster boy, the Matrix.
With the rise of global computer corporations mysterious magnates have emerged now; driven, separate and somehow smarter than the rest of us, the likes of Zuckerberg and Jobs have shaped the way we perceive the idea of computer bosses, the new Masters of the Universe.
And so too some films have re-focused onto these gurus and their private empires. Films like The Social Network, Jobs, Ex-Machina, The Circle and now the TV drama Devs.
I enjoyed the first episode. Everything's there. A God-like hippy boss, a bizarre Silicon Valley complex full of indulgent wackiness, a loyal misguided assistant and a programmer who mysteriously vanishes.
I shall be tuning in again tonight 9pm BBC2.
Will you?
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
HOT AND TETHERED
This has ended our broadband for the moment until Friday.
I am currently enjoying a wonderful thing called tethering, in which my mobile provides an internet connection for my laptop. What a great idea!
Alas, the downside is that it will cost me so I need to keep my connections short. It may slow down my responses to comments and emails.
Hopefully my landline and broadband will be back on track for the weekend.
Monday, 26 August 2013
CONSOLE YOURSELF: DIY SPACESHIP DASHBOARD
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Your Computer Is Updating For the Next Ten Years!
Microsoft, Java, Adobe, AVG et al all seem to want to update constantly and together!
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