For the first time in well over a decade a Windows device of mine almost succumbed to a virus. I've only recently upgraded to a new laptop and with it transitioning from Windows 10 to Windows 11. But, this near miss was not due to any error on my side. I didn't click on anything I shouldn't, or from a dodgy download....

I'm now into the fourth week and all in all I think I've done fairly well at writing frequently enough. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to write a post daily. This is both due to things happening that mean I don't really have the time to write something (even though they don't take very long) and also that it's...

This is the first of what will be an irregular series. Not so much reviews, rather just highlighting bits of tech that I like and enjoy using.For the first entry and what actually contributed to me coming up with this series is the EarFun Air Pro 4. I had heard about EarFun as a company in various random tech YouTube...

I haven't posted the past couple of days. Partly because of continuing lesson prep and partly because of the second weekend of the Battlefield 6 beta. This time the public beta was available to all from the Friday and what's more the waiting times to get into the "game" were minimal to non-existent this time. It feels...

Like many people today I listen to my fair share of podcasts. My friend first introduced me to one that was essentially just a repackaged version of a Radio 4 comedy slot all the way back around 2007 I think. Not long after Rooster Teeth started up their "Drunk Tank" podcast (later renamed "The Rooster Teeth podcast"...

Today I went to see The Naked Gun. This post isn't a review of that film. In short, regardless of if you have seen the original films, if you laugh at Family Guy then you'll laugh at this. They're not the same, but the humour is similar.What I want to talk about instead is what I observed whilst watching it. I had a...

Firstly, yes, I missed yesterday's entry. Just didn't have the time to fit it in. In addition though, I couldn't think of something even remotely interesting to write about. It would have been at most a paragraph basically saying "I can't think of anything". This is a waste of my time and your time reading it. I want to...

I'm terrible at coming up with names and titles for the things I write. When I was writing for Thumbsticks my editors would often take the dull title that I still agonised over and turn it into something actually enticing - but without being annoyingly "clickbaity".Whilst I've got slightly better over the years, it's...

Recently I got new chargers and power banks for when I'm out of the house. These work really well, as intended. But it also drew my attention to how bad charging can be when using "standard" USB charging. Yesterday I was staying at a cheap hotel and they made the in hindsight poor decision of replacing nearly all of ita...

I'm on a short trip via train for work. Because I'm trying to keep my bag light I purposefully didn't bring my Switch 2. But I did want to bring a videogame device. I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of retro handhelds, so that leaves me conveniently with the Playdate. I've had one for quite a while, I think I was in...

I've been teasing quite a bit on this blog that I would end up going with the premium plan so that I can access the additional features of Pagecord. However, that's not to say that I was unhappy with what the free version provides. It has everything you need for a blog. Heck, the fact that I have been posting so much...

I'm not sure what my thoughts are when it comes to blogging themes? I've taken part in a couple back when I was using Bear Blog for my Relative Nostalgia blog, but one of the main ones was just my "uses" are now (which you can find in my Now page link at the top).I've seen a few bloggers mention about this...