SEO and Logos
Boy am I getting tired of people ringing me up and telling me I can’t design web sites. It may well be true, but it’s very rude! Just fielded a call from a total idiot (from a unknown company based …
Author: Dave
Electric bikes – Stuff is arriving
In fact, all the expected parcels are here, and I can start to see what is missing! The battery racks arrived yesterday, and one went straight onto my bike, but the one for Lynn’s bike is taking a little sorting. …
DPC Watchdog Violation blue screen
A customer (or rather their young son) had a blue screen with DPC Watchdog Violation error showing, and a request to scan the computer. This is normally something to do with an SSD in Windows 8, but sometimes just with …
Electric bikes – delivery progress
The battery packs arrived a week or so ago, which was a real surprise. Just the cells though, no bus bars or holders, so I can’t actually get on with building the batteries. They were repackaged to conform with the …
Electric bikes – It starts
The backstory Lynn (my better half) and I want electric bikes. I have wanted one since I was 12, when I used to live in one of the few towns in Cheshire in the UK with a reasonable number of …
Anatomy of an LCD screen
Have you always wondered what’s in an LCD screen? Reading on the web, there are a lot of different ideas on what it is made up of. As part of what I do I replace LCD screens in laptops, when …
Gallery formatting in responsive theme
If anyone actually looks at my site, they will have spotted that the galleries on 3 pages looked pretty bad there for a few weeks. I use the Responsive Child Theme from CyberChimps, and the latest update to 1.9.4.5 of …
Porting Lazarus development to Linux
This morning I downloaded and installed the Lazarus RAD IDE, Free pascal and its resources to my workshop PC Ubuntu 12.04 image. It all went very smoothly. I tried to run my project (Sudoku Solver) from a USB key, but …
Back to programming
Hi, I’m Dave and I am a programmer. It says so on my passport, and to save hastle, its what I give my job as whenever I have to put it on a form. In reality, I haven’t had the …
CryptoLocker – a Ransomware Trojan Horse Malware Infection!
Eh? What does that mean? You may have already heard about this, “the worst virus ever known”, “once it is on your PC you have lost the whole thing”, “10s of million PCs in the UK at risk” etc. The …
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