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March 2024
- The adverts on my Pixel 8
Finally, a Pixel since the Pixel 5 that I like. Well, ignoring the adverts that have turned up.
January 2024
- Full fibre is (almost) in my area
Some new gear appeared on my telegraph pole.
- Unwanted PC problems: fixing a Core i9-14900K freezing during gaming
Maybe it wasn’t a worthwhile upgrade after all.
- The regularly irritating message from HMRC
Can my taxes be used for better systems for the tax collector?
- Intel Application Optimization: not very interesting
I gave Intel Application Optimization a go. And then uninstalled it.
December 2023
- I upgraded my Intel Core i9-13900 to an i9-14900K
There was a good deal on a 14900K during Black Friday weekend, so I decided to buy one as a fairly low-cost upgrade from my non-K 13900. Did I get a good…
November 2023
- Be careful buying an Intel BE200 M.2 card
Here’s a picture of an Intel AX210 card: And here’s a picture of an Intel BE200 card: If you’re observant, you may have noticed that the connector is slightly…
- Jupiter and Saturn with my Canon camera
I recently bought a Canon RF 800mm F11 IS STM lens for my Canon EOS R camera. While the lens is light for an 800mm lens, it’s still too large and heavy to take…
October 2023
- The bugs in File Explorer
The latest version of Windows 11 includes an updated version of File Explorer, built using the Windows App SDK. Some parts of File Explorer haven’t actually…
- I made a website for my photos
Photography is a small hobby of mine, and I used to post some of my photos on photography websites like 500px. But, apart from blurry photos, on that site you…
August 2023
- A super blue moon
Taking photos of the moon is always fun. Here’s one I took last night, from London: (It’s not quite up there with the one on the Wikipedia page for the moon,…
- A Win32 tree view scrolling oddity
It turns out the Win32 tree view control has a novel way of selecting items. If you hold down Shift and scroll your mouse wheel up (but not down!) it will…
July 2023
- The case of the misplaced GitHub username
Recently, when using GitHub’s global code search, I noticed something amiss with one of the results: The file path of the result was somewhat confused.…
April 2023
- A new PC build
I had been using an Intel Core i7-8700K since October 2017, patiently waiting for a good opportunity to upgrade. Fed up of waiting, I ordered some new…
March 2023
- The 404 errors in the Google Pixel Discover feed
My Google Pixel 5 Android phone has a feature called a ‘Discover’ feed, which I often look at. The feed contains articles that Google thinks I’d be interested…
- The pervasiveness of caret browsing in Windows 10
When I’m using Visual Studio, I often press the F7 key to start a build. But, a few days ago, I accidentally tried to do that when a taskbar item context menu…
February 2023
- Week bits: A turbulent day with Ubuntu
I’m trying something different for this post – it's spoken (a short podcast, if you like). Week bits 19/02/2023: A turbulent day with…
January 2023
- ‘Your business contact information is processed by Lusha Systems Inc.’
A few days ago, I received this text message: The sender was simply a mysterious ‘Privacy’. Was this a genuine notification about some company having my data,…
- An unexpected DPI-scaling failure
Recently, I printed this colour chart using X-Rite’s i1Profiler calibration software: I was creating some calibrated ICC profiles for my printer for the first…
December 2022
- The oddness of the BBC Weather scroll bar
I often would find myself confused by the scroll bar underneath the days in the forecast on the BBC Weather website. Sometimes it would look like the days were…