I've written before about being careful of your personal data, what you post and 'skewer tea' (security.)  Now the whole 'Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data-capture and possible selling on' affair has blown up ( Read more... )

A couple of things:

1) Cybersecurity, particularly at home - I know I bang on about this, but seriously, Dear Reader, you don't want your home system to get 'infected' or 'taken over', do you? Advice here.

2) Maybe we should also be aware that ATMs (Cash dispensers/Hole in the Wall machines) are easily hackable.  It's not just that ' ( Read more... )

In the interests of 'security' the Bank of England will be issuing a new £1 coin at the end of March this year.  There are estimates that we have around £433 million worth of such coins stashed away in piggy banks, 'spare change' jars and various other places around the homes of the UK.  Dear Reader, should you have any such £1 coins, and it might ( Read more... )

I found a bedside light for the spare bedroom, from Wilko.  It's got a cream ceramic base and a cream shade.  I even got a light bulb (ES, small) and a spare for it.  So that was good ( Read more... )

There now, Yahoo was hacked back in July last year by 'state sponsored' hackers.  They finally admitted the fact this August, but have only now gotten around to admitting that the breach was a whole lot bigger than they'd first thought.

1. Should you have accounts with Yahoo, Dear Reader, go change all your passwords.  I mean, that was the second ( Read more... )

Looks like being another warm day, though not as warm as Wednesday, thank goodness.  Sunday may come as a bit of a shock, temperatures of around 20-21°C forecast.  This will be welcome relief for some of us.  Thank goodness we had the fan going last night, or we'd have slept less than we did ( Read more... )

We try, we really do.  At present there is a plethora of planets visible in the night sky, most of them around or shortly after sunset - Venus (doing duty as the Evening Star), Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.  Oh, and the waxing moon.

The skies have been clear the past few sunsets and we've gone out to look.  Alas, there are the 'ahses in ( Read more... )

Regular Readers will know that I occasionally bang on about Security and How To Maintain It.  That's cyber security - you know, passwords, hackers, identity theft and the like.  Should you wish to scare yourself a little, try this article Where in the World is my data and how secure is it?  We've all heard of overworked people leaving important ( Read more... )

So the thing to look for in the night sky at the moment, always assuming we can see it, is the Leonid meteor shower.


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The washing dried yesterday.  In fact it dried so well I was able to peg out a second lot, this time towels, and they dried too!  It's amazing the difference the wind makes at this time of year.  I mentioned that it's been unseasonably warm the past few weeks.  So much so that H was sat at the computer (second coldest seat in the house) yesterday ( Read more... )