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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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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighteen

21st January 2024 Going Postal 2555 Comments

Monday Hi folks, I’m back! Now my scribe has returned from his cruise it’s back to business for your favourite cat diarist. I have had a very pleasant Christmas and New Year break in a [more…]

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Letter From Stafford, Three

30th March 2023 Going Postal 2630 Comments

I don’t get out as much any more now that I’ve learned to do my work online. Slouching behind a steering wheel 200 miles a day has been replaced by slouching at a screen waiting [more…]

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How to replace a broken laptop screen

1st September 2020 Tom Pudding 2631 Comments

Introduction I suppose I’ve always considered myself to be pretty practical and over the years I’ve rebuilt car and motorbike engines and done all my own servicing and repairs saving a fortune in the process. [more…]

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Sit Down At Your Computer

16th April 2020 Going Postal 2742 Comments

QWERTY – Why? Sit down at your computer (or typewriter) and type a few lines. You can work out your speed and efficiency fairly easily – you have a rough knowledge of where the keys [more…]

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Gmbd, something about pixels

10th March 2018 Gmbd 1035 Comments

I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]

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