Recently I made the mistake of upgrading my Mac to Big Sur. I now can no-longer use Microsoft Office or the Adobe CS5 Suite, and of course licenses are not Transferable so I have thousands of dollars in new licenses to pay (again)… Except I won’t, I’ll just use the old machine for the photographic…
Introduction. A friend recently asked about abuse in relationships, and didn’t know whether they had wandered into abad relationship. So after a discussion with them I pointed out a number of factors that could point to control or manipulation and therefore abuse. The things discussed I decided I’d share with all, this therefore is the…
So many years ago many of you will know I was stalked to the point it affected my mental health and left me in fear of violence being perpetrated against me. Now I recently had someone use the excuse “I didn’t want to be accused of stalking you” as a reason not to communicate, and…
It seems that over the years of the seemingly constant WordPress security updates, the registration system was broken at some point, when they forced all SMTP connections to use ‘STARTTLS’ even when not needed (e.g. connecting to a TLS only port). A minor patch restored previous functionality and now the registration system and therefore the…
It’s been a while since I blogged, but a recent experience alerted me to what Gas Lighting actually means, and that over the years I have been subjected to Gas lighting on more than one occasion, though in later years it seems to be getting more and more common. The official definition is: Gaslighting is a…
So I’ve written a little on climate change, and tweeted/posted on climate change, talked to people etc and one reoccurring theme seems to keep coming up and seems to cause the biggest rifts between climate change activists, climate deniers and even those who know better! So lets look at a few arguments and dispel a…
So a short post on climate change and the hypocrisy surrounding it. It occurred to me a few minutes ago the massive hypocrisy of the “Climate Deniers” so I thought it was about time I made comment, and get a whole load more people hating me for just confronting them with an uncomfortable truth. No…
So this article is about the Zeta File System (ZFS) a relatively new file system and one that is supposedly very resilient to errors. It has some great features to prevent dataloss and is touted as the be-all and end-all of filesystems. Well my experience is varied, both good and bad, but the reality for…
Some of you will know I’ve been a diver for many years, the more astute of you will know of my love of underwater photography. So a little about my policy on gear.. I tend to choose a manufacturer after doing a bit of research and stick with it, for everything. Its called brand loyalty……
So as usual my New Year’s post, this one comes with a heavy heart, and hope for the future. It comes with some reflexions and observations that I hope some will be able to take away and use to protect themselves from hurt, or just learn about happiness, and unlike previous posts has some clearly…
The Internet of Things So here I am seeing issues, reading about issues and trying to stop issues in the Internet of Things… Everyday someone seems to be publishing articles on the issues, people are getting more aware (you’d think!) but there seems to be no real movement. Some of my readers will know what…
Its been a long while since I’ve posted anything, but in todays news how many of you out there are on Facebook and how many of you like to respond to these little gems: Or perhaps statuses that ask you to cut/paste in your answers: Thursday Night fun… Six names. Real Name: Michelle Sullivan Soap…