The complex calculations governing Easter meant Maelstrom's first event was very early this year. The weather decided to have a last blast of winter the very same weekend. After suffering through the biting wind on Friday night (which was apparently not as bad as the experience others had on Thursday …

I'm not sure what did it but I upgraded the firmware on my phone last week and this week I noticed the "My Location" option now works on Google Maps while running on the phone. I haven't been able to find a Changelog for the firmware version (Dave/Sheila/Jo …

David Braben has an opinion piece on the BBC today as they celebrate the legacy of the BBC Micro. My family never actually owned a BBC Micro, although we did own several other esoteric machines which came with the premise that the main activity anyone owning one would be to …

I had to perform emergency surgery on Jack last night after I got a message from my brother saying he couldn't login into the webmail. It turned out the rather aggressive dropping of bounced messages (usually replying to messages faked as being from bennee.com) wasn't aggressive enough. Changing the …

It is odd staying at your parents place while they are away. Although I spent over a decade living here as a child it's quite a different experience while pottering around preparing your own food and doing your own thing. For one thing I'm paranoid about rectifying the bumps and …