Normal Service will hopefully be resumed...soon!
Regular readers will have noticed that the last few weeks on Joe's Jottings have been a bit patchy in terms of the frequency of posts. It's been a perfect example of 'life happening when you're makin…
Tagged: personal-stuff
Tethering a Blackberry to a PC
This is one of those 'good to try, might be useful' sort of things that I've been intending to try for some time. First of all, a couple of caveats - some service providers don't like you doing this,…
Crystal Reports...where did you go wrong?
Many moons ago, when you could write useful software on a computer with less processing power than my last cellphone, there was a reporting tool called Crystal Reports that was incredibly useful for t…
The obligatory General Election Post
Some years ago, a joke did the rounds about the first Albanian astronaut. The main thing you need to know is that at the time the joke was told Albania was a head-bangingly totalitarian Marxist state…
Seafood Pornography
There's a superb episode of The Simpsons where various discussions of actor 'Troy McClure are taking place: Louie: Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead. Tony: No, what I said was: "He sleeps …
Politically Correctly Dead
This story is desperately, tragically sad on a number of levels, and also makes me pretty angry. Read the story - unless you've had a very sheltered life (oh, working in the public sector or the hall…
Arrogance 2.0
Maybe I'm just old, or maybe I just don't get some aspects of modern business - or are some people online purporting to be business experts just arrogant and opinionated folks with insufficient experi…
Apple - why 2014 could be like 1984
Back in 1984, Apple had Ridley Scott direct a very imaginative advert)to launch the Macintosh computer. It ran twice - once on a small TV station late at night to get it in the running for some award…
A hint of mortality
Today Guy Kewney died of cancer. He'd been ill with Liver and bowel cancer for a year. For those of us who got involved in personal and home computing 'at the start' Guy was effectively 'Mr Personal…
Too few experiments in school science
I'm a science geek - always have been, always will be. When I was a kid I had microscopes, telescopes, chemistry sets - anything that allowed me to do experiments. By the time I went to secondary sc…