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Computing, archiving, digital media, and a bit of historical speculation

Friday, 4 July 2025

Smartwatches - what's the point?

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 A long time ago I bought myself a cheap no name fitness tracker , which worked quite well, allowing me to track my bike rides and to beep w...
Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Linux on an old imac

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 I appear to have accidentally done something useful. J's old 2017 iMac had been sitting in a corner in the study, waiting to be wiped a...
Sunday, 29 June 2025

Indelible pencils

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  Ebay (and Etsy) can be an excellent research resource for finding resources and artefacts relevant to daily life in the late nineteenth a...
Friday, 13 June 2025

Data recovery at home

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 J was looking through some documents to do with her mother's death  that she had got some years ago from her sister, deciding what need...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Really really finished!

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 Back in April I blogged that I had completed the documentation of the contents of Lake View House in Chiltern for the National Trust.  Yes...
Friday, 30 May 2025

Digitising heritage libraries

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 Earlier today I tooted the following Essentially, La Trobe university has digitised and catalogued the Sandhurst Mechanics Institute histo...
Sunday, 25 May 2025

Pocket is shutting down

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 As I guess we all know by now, Pocket is going to the data centre in the sky on July 8. It's an annoyance, I principally used pocket t...
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Been an IT professional, a field ecologist and tried my hand at research in psychology. Now retired, I'm a blogger, traveller, pontificator and classical and early medieval history geek - I'm also known to enjoy a decent pinot noir, and late night conversations about central Asia, the Russian Revolution and just about anything else. Some claim I know too much about some things, some that I know too little.
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