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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 1986 Comments

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2465 Comments

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2101 Comments

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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10th April 2025 Patrick Barron 2232 Comments

In the past few months several reputable aviation magazines, such as Combat Aircraft Journal Magazine, have stated that the F-35 is not combat capable. Its April issue had many reports related to the progress of [more…]

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Who Does It Think I Am?

29th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 1495 Comments

“How long are you going to keep this up for?” “I don’t think of myself as a flouncer, plus I don’t read the comments. In it for the duration, I would hope. Change of heart? [more…]

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Ensh*tification of The Internet

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I’ve just finished the first in a series of articles relating to the privacy and security of your electronic life. This has led me down some rabbit holes that are very worrying. Seriously scary. One [more…]

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Hasn’t Time Flown?

19th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 1897 Comments

The conversation ended as it often does with a young colleague reminding me it’s because I’m old. Perhaps because I really am old, I can’t remember the topic. Maybe the latest delivery of dog food [more…]

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The Wankpuffin Song Two Tier Remix

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An August Conundrum

27th August 2024 Going Postal 2551 Comments

On August 18th 2024, Mr Stephen Chamberlain was “fatally struck” by a car whilst he was out on an early morning jog in Cambridgeshire. Chamberlain was put on life support after being taken to hospital, [more…]

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