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There you are, thinking “Well, I’ve been posting data on an Instagram feed – might be nice to organise and visualise it a bit differently?”. No problem – surely there are various ways to query Insta based on hashtags? Oh. [i]You CAN search Insta for a hashtag, but it only shows you ALL posts with…
Resources are scarce – we know this much. So what can be interesting is seeing how people deal with that. We’re lucky enough to be on holiday in South Africa for the 2nd time in 12 months, and there’s a thing going on here which, frankly, I don’t know how Australia or the UK would…
Yesterday I needed to phone my broadband provider to give them the news that we’re moving to another company, on account of the fact that their modus operandi is to sign users up for a certain monthly fee and then 18 months later to double it – entrusting in apathy, I expect, to retain customers…
For someone who’s worked in the tech industry since 1998 I’m constantly astounded at how frigging difficult I find it to do things. In this case, I’d been doing some work for someone on a WordPress site about 5 years ago, and they came to me the other week asking if we could make some…
Haven’t blogged in a while but I enjoyed writing about that black metal gig, and realised that I’m never so happy as when I’m sarcastically complaining about something – so I thought I’d take a moment and recognise the contribution to my life of a very special contraption. At work we have what most people…
I left my phone on the bus yesterday. Generally I’ve done pretty well at not losing phones or other tech gadgets compared to many of my contemporaries, but even as a once off* I still felt pretty bloody silly about it. Not LEAST because as someone who supposedly “knows what they’re doing where tech is…
I’ve gone on at length before about how I don’t like the British electoral system, and last night’s General Election is a shining example of why. Before going further I’d like to make it clear that this viewpoint is totally removed from the outcome of who won. In truth, I don’t recall ever voting for…
The gripping chronological account of our hero’s valiant but predictably futile attempts to try to sign up for a new mobile phone. Unmissable. ** The Scotsman.