El Cnutador

Saucisses en croûte

17th November 2018 Going Postal 0

Dead easy recipe for a midweek treat. Prep time – 15 mins Cook time – 30 – 40 mins You will need: 2 packs of good quality sausages 1 pack of bacon 1 medium sized [more…]

On blogs

2nd November 2018 Going Postal 0

As devoted puffins may notice, I have spent quite a lot of internet hours to date. From the times of 56k modems all the way to what BT laughingly describes as “best” internet, I have [more…]

Sunday Lunch

21st October 2018 Going Postal 0

There has been much activity on GP regarding recipes and food. I was thinking of this the other day after making a full on Sunday roast for my family – why are we obsessed with [more…]

I so fight, but not as one that beateth the air : 1 CORINTHIANS 9:26

20th October 2018 Going Postal 0

Are you soft, lad? FIIIIGHT! This is a great English tradition, we get raucous and fight. It is part of our heritage, and I will not have it any other way. Not the ritualised fighting [more…]

My word is my bond

14th June 2018 Going Postal 0

Much has been made in recent days on “bond rolls” and “gilts”. As a technologist working in the financial sector I get to look at these things in excruciating detail and have to deal with [more…]

Following on from Sweaty Dave’s excellent series on modelling railways, here’s a missive on what I term “active modelling”. Radio Control stuff is now awesome. Forget 12 hour charging times and a 4 hour trip [more…]

The Internet

6th January 2018 Going Postal 2,527

So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, then typing them in as DATA statements in decimals. A [more…]

The Internet is Simple, Part Four

13th September 2017 Going Postal 0

The UK, of course, ever keen to gild the lily and gold plate the restrictions that everyone else was putting on the internet, began blocking the torrent sites like The Pirate Bay, through the Cleanfeedsystem. It [more…]

The Internet is Simple, Part Three

30th August 2017 Going Postal 0

We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here but without really going into them. Encryption is a way of scrambling data so that it is unreadable, unless you have the key to turn it [more…]