If you’ve sent any email to anyone with a ridey.net address in the past 24 hours or so, it probably bounced back. Sorry about that. But apparently I’m a very lazy system administrator because I got caught out by this bit of geek nastiness.
I think I’ve sorted out the problem now with the help […]
Ridey.net is changing to a new internet service provider some time on Monday, so the website and email will be unavailable for a day or so. But rest assured that no email will be lost over the down time. We’ll soon be back up and running faster (we hope) than ever.
Our crappy old HP printer packed it in this morning while I was trying to print out all of our travel documents. So it was down to PC World to get a replacement. Technology has moved a long way and prices have come down considerably, so I got a printer/scanner/copier, a Canon MP180, for less […]
The eagerly anticipated start of another baseball season brings joy at last for Mac owners who have struggled to watch mlb.tv for the past two season. They’ve finally released a Mac version of the Mosaic player and it seems to work, sort of. But it’s only for people with some kind of fantasy league fetish […]
We’ve discovered something that actually rivals Lego Star Wars II, called the No Limits Roller Coaster simulator. It’s a very clever piece of software that lets you ride dozens of different virtual coasters, plus an editor that allows you to build your own (engineering degree required). Charlie absolutely loves it, which is funny because he […]
My supposedly high-speed internet connection has been a little flaky lately - very slow and lots of dropped connections. At first I thought it must be the fault of the internet service provider but finally realised it was the broadband modem that I’ve been using for at least six years. It was never an easy […]
We’ve added another webcam, and although it only cost me £5 at Tchibo (our new favourite store), it takes a very sharp picture. It only works on the laptop, though, so won’t always be on. It will finally let me use video on Skype.
The other new feature is called Snap and should reveal itself whenever […]
Old friend Chris Gulker has finally given up on his ancient blogging software and upgraded to WordPress. Looks pretty good, Chris. What took you so long?
The Einsteins at mlb.tv have just launched their new Mosaic player, which allows you to watch six live baseball games at the same time. Surely the silliest tech innovation since the scratch and sniff MP3 player? Who wants to watch six games at the same time? Who wants to waste that much bandwidth? I […]
Today AOL UK launched its new web portal. What used to be available only to subscribers is now out there on the whole world wide web. We think it’s pretty good. What do you think?