24/11/2017, 20:08

The problem with having a kid who’s a) really small for his age and b) really good at cycling is that you go:

Balance bike -> 12″ -> 16″ -> 20″

Not:

Balance bike -> 14″ -> 20″

This is a delightful, if expensive, problem to have!

21/11/2017, 13:07

Survived cycle-assassination attempt this morning. Notes to driver:

1) NO, it is NOT acceptable to overtake cyclists on roundabouts

2) You MUST be prepared to stop at a roundabout, look right, and give way

20/11/2017, 11:47

“a next generation crypto-currency and decentralized application platform, written entirely in JavaScript” – ???

Anyone else think this is like using a blunt pencil to do brain surgery?

19/11/2017, 23:11

And yes, we totally take the internet for granted. With any other family IT query I’d be sending pictures, or screen-sharing or getting him to allow remote access to help him out. Without internet I was working blind and that was what made it so hard.

19/11/2017, 23:11

Paper-clip-reset incident update: I managed to, over the phone, with no visual on what was going on, use a PDF of a 10-year old NetGear router manual to help my father-in-law piece together enough information to get back online. Man that was hard work!

19/11/2017, 23:11

Actually, I remember now. BT asked my father in law to factory reset a router that *I* provided him to replace a single-port, WiFi-less USB modem years ago. Resetting would delete the ADSL connection settings anyway. So unhelpful.

19/11/2017, 23:10

The BT customer support person that told my father in law to stick a paper clip in the back of his router needs a really good talking to!

18/11/2017, 20:50

Hosting experiments: I thought this new hosting I was trying out was fast. And it’s good. But it’s not as good as ServerPilot on a cheap DigitalOcean box. Spot when the move happened!

13/11/2017, 17:36

Nearly-6-year-old son to nearly-two-year-old daughter, while Star Wars music plays:

“Ada, this is not the Lego you are looking for!”

????

13/11/2017, 11:23

Me to cold sales email: Please delete me – your cold calling makes you look desperate and I don’t want your services.

Reply: “Certainly not desperate to get clients. With X, Y and Z to name a few recently coming on board business has been thriving.”

Look…just…ARGH!!!!!!!

13/11/2017, 11:19

Twitter should let people write “threads” or long posts *with titles* so we can skim through the feed easily.

People could then write these on websites. Twitter could pull in the content using feeds.

Imagine, then, if there was an open feed protocol & free publishing software?!