Following with time-honoured tradition of being late, this update on my tech of the union is arriving at the tail-end of January. If nothing else, I am consistently inconsistent. No real changes on the rigs, I did buy another (and another) pair of cans but ultimately beyond a new phone and a dac …
Rant Warning: Dell Battery Swelling? Don’t Bother With Tech Support
I just don't get companies the size of Dell having sub par customer service in this day and age of information being so readily available for mass consumption. It's utterly shocking to me that enormous multinational corporations act, when faced with criticism, by performing the public relations …
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Old People on Social Media (& Eventually Becoming One)
In mid 2013, I found myself flicking through my Facebook feed. This particular habit is something that my generation had adopted as an almost ingrained ritual in our daily lives. On this day, I saw something that made me question social media and resulted in me deleting my Facebook account. It …
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Tech Spec 2016
Lots of tech changes this year (2015's Tech Spec for comparison). As you know, Elise and I moved continents for our new home in Old Blighty' and consequently we have overhauled our primary workstations with some shiny new hardware once we'd settled in. Sadly, some changes were as a result of tech …
A non-fluid, permanent environment
As Elise mentioned a couple of days ago, we officially moved into our new digs. Pretty happy to finally have a true "home base" after what feels like a decade of pseudo vagrancy. There is nothing like sitting on the floor of a property you outright own with a true sense of independence. No mortgage …
Why Tech Company Start-Ups Are a Shitstorm of Fail
Today I received an e-mail that I almost expected, but still for some reason hoped would never come. As a citizen of the digital ecosystem, I have invested terabytes of data and countless hours into the cloud, and today yet another service (albeit one I never used) decided to go tits up and close …
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