General updates, night shift, and working from home
Well, it’s been a while since my last post. An unintentional hiatus due to quite a few changes, including moving the whole site to a new location, https://robert.hawdon.net/. In February, I started working night-shift on a permanent basis, still for the same...
The 2010s – Another ten years
Ten years ago, I wrote a rather dreadful post summarising my life from after the year 2000. At the end of the article, I jokingly said: So, unless the world ends on 21st December 2012, expect another round-up on 31st Dec...10 Years Online
Just a quick post to mark the anniversary of this site, which I originally launched from a hotel room in Ireland 10 years ago today. Thanks to everyone who’s visited and supported the site over the years. More to come soon. Cheers.
Bert Sommer – The forgotten Woodstock artist
August 2019 is a special time for music. It marks 50 years since the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Whilst many of the performers there was already well known, the festival and its subsequent documentary feature film helped propel them to new fans. However,...
Our visit to Turkey inc. Laguna Beach Resort & Spa mini review
I recently returned from a holiday with my girlfriend and her family in Turkey. This was a package holiday from Jet2Holidays, where we stayed at the Laguna Beach Resort & Spa, Okurcalar, Alanya. We started our holiday from Newcastle International Airport where,...
Fixing the workplace coffee machine.
My place of work, Bede Gaming, is a software house. Because of this, we hire a lot of developers, and, as everyone knows, developers have the amazing ability to convert caffeine into code. So when our beloved coffee machine (The Sage (Breville) “The...
My adventures into the world of GNU/Linux. Part 6 – Just another Linux server
It’s been well over a year since the last instalment. But here’s the long-awaited 6th part. It’s now November 2005 and I’d been using Linux on and off for 3 years as a desktop/workstation. So I started looking at how Linux systems could be used...
Major security flaw in Logitech wireless peripherals
Rejected title: The mouse that got the cheese On my desk, I have a very sophisticated hacking device. Want to see it? Sure. The most sophisticated hacking device. A mouse? Really? No, I’m not talking about some metaphorical “Here are the peripherals I used on a...
Repairing a mains powered timer
So it’s getting close to Christmas, so as usual it’s time to put the decorations up. All was going fine until it was time to put the tree lights on a timer. That’s when I discovered that both devices I have were not functioning when unplugged. Two...Hello and welcome to my site
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