Work as if it’s 2001

06.04.2019/08.05

Asus One beauty to having new tech, even if it stretched my budget, is how my use of the desktop and laptop computers is more efficient. I don’t just mean the speed and stability (since the previous computers were both Windows 7 machines that had been upgraded to 10) but the way I use the […]

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Fighting intolerance is the key to a tolerant society

01.04.2019/09.22

Hat tip to Mauricio Freitas. Source: Pictoline. pic.twitter.com/eJVhZxA4ZW — Merlin Ks (@Merlin3ks) July 14, 2018 Quite simple, isn’t it? I sense my parents’ generation (who were kids during WWII) would have understood this, but I worry about my generation and the ones following. You may also like The easy-to-spot signs of the social media […]

Alarm für Cobra 11: why the inconsistent season numbering?

29.03.2019/12.25

RTL Above: From the first episode after the half-season break, ‘Endstation’. All three men have, at some point, played the sidekick on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei: Erdoğan Atalay, who was hired to play second banana in the third episode but has since become the star of the show; Rainer Strecker, the man whom […]

The end of the long Instagram video

27.03.2019/08.59

After the last 11 months, only two Instagram users—myself and an Indonesian user called TryAink—uploaded videos of over a minute (his were up to four). It looks like he and I were experimenting to see how much Instagram would really allow. I guess we were the guinea pigs before IGTV was launched, though unlike those […]

In the wake of terrorism in your own country

20.03.2019/11.47

Above: Flowers at the Islamic Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington on Monday. On 9-11, I wrote an editorial in Lucire immediately. It was clear to me what I needed to write, and the editorial got quite a few readers at the time. Today is March 20, five days after a terrorist attack on our country, […]

Autocade turns 11 as the web turns 30

12.03.2019/13.12

The latest model to appear on Autocade today: the Mazda CX-30. It’s March, which means Autocade has had another birthday. Eleven years ago, I started a car encyclopædia using Mediawiki software, and it’s since grown to 3,600 model entries. The story has been told elsewhere on this blog. What I hadn’t realized till today was […]

The Singer of desktop PCs

24.02.2019/12.22

I never planned to spend quite this much on computers in the first two months of the year. The laptop was in dire need of an upgrade, so I had budgeted for it. After getting it, I was impressed, but thought that the desktop PC, which dates from 2012 and upgraded with a Crucial […]

More reminders that Google lies

21.02.2019/10.14

Nest/Creative Commons We’ve been here countless times before since last decade. Funny how many of these “errors” Google has, and funny how they only admit to these “errors” after they get busted. How many more “errors” are there? If you have a Nest Secure, please be advised that there's a microphone in the system whose […]

Autocade passes 15 million page views, as SUVs and EVs take hold

11.02.2019/12.03

Over the weekend, I noticed Autocade’s page-view stat had ticked over the 15,000,000 mark. In fact, it was at 15,045,000, and I estimate that it hit the milestone around February 6—fitting for it to have taken place as the (lunar) year began. With how busy things have been, Autocade has been updated less, but […]

How to get a perfect 10 in reliability on Windows 10

02.02.2019/09.45

I’ve had a great week with my new laptop, though it exhibits some of the same traits I’ve frequently seen with Windows 10: settings’ windows vanishing when attempting to load. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, demo PCs I’ve seen at the store have terrible reliability history scores, and mine is no exception. It […]