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January 17, 2012, 11:29 pm At midnight tonight, a WordPress plugin will kick in which “blacks out” this blog (and my travel blog). I know I only get a few hits a day (around 50-100, usually), but it’s my small way to take part in the STOP SOPA Wednesday.
For those who don’t know, SOPA (and also PIPA) are [...]
January 11, 2012, 5:51 pm Raspberry Pi – almost actual size. Image via Wikipedia
For those not aware, Raspberry PiĀ is an initiative to supply incredibly low-cost, tiny little computers for school children to use. They retail at $25 for a standalone model and $35 for one with a network port soldered on. They’re also being distributed by a [...]
November 19, 2011, 12:36 pm Don't use one of these…
Hint for anyone planning on moving to BT‘s fibre optic broadband – forget the packaged HomeHub3 and go for a router capable of 300Mbps throughput on the wifi. We’ve gone for a NetGear though there are plenty of alternatives.
Reason being that most areas have 40Mbps (max) broadband speed [...]
September 13, 2011, 4:33 pm The first game, which we haven't got. Yet.
Harking back to a recent post, I mentioned that there is very little in the way of small-child-friendly software for the Xbox as opposed to the Wii or the PC.
One of the titles we picked up by chance some time ago is called De [...]
May 5, 2011, 11:10 pm [links for all programs at the end of this post]
There’s a really popular game for Android called Alchemy which Gillian’s eldest took quite a shine to on my phone. It’s a really simple game, involving dropping icons of the basic four elements onto each other to create newer items. These can then be used [...]
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