Narrowboat

I am back from my week afloat and now have 10GB of photographs (as each is about 80-100KB, that’s quite a fair few), or there about, which considering I took three 4GB cards did at least mean I had worked it out right. I was using the Canon camera I had bought second hand and [...]

In past years I’ve ventured out on my boat over Christmas or New Year, but not being in education sector any more I don’t get the big slack periods to gallivant off. So I’m not afloat until March, unless I grab a free weekend.
The boat is moving bases this year, we’ve managed to get a [...]

In running this blog I was using Wordpress and Gallery 2, the latter is quite an extensive system with lots of features I don’t use – it’s also a fair bit of my server space, so I decided to try a change.
I’ve gone to Coppermine, which is a lot smaller and a great for what [...]

When sorting out PC problems, its best trying to reduce the possibilities. The error code windows gave me (when I turned on the option to give it) indicated a hardware fault. As it often crashed when in BIOS (so XP not loaded), I decided to try with components removed (as had been suggested on a [...]

Oh fun. I’ve been having PC problems – it keeps crashing once I turn it on, though after several attempts it stays on and is stable. I’ve been searching for solutions, and although quite a few tech support sites suggest hardware, I don’t seem to be able to find any way I can test as [...]