by Robert Ian Hawdon | Nov 12, 2020 | Robert Investigates, Tutorials |
With the current world situation, it’s becoming more and more important to not only protect ourselves in the real world but also online, especially as that’s where a lot of us are spending our time, whether it be for work or leisure. But what happens if...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Oct 30, 2020 | My Life, Robert Investigates, Tutorials |
So, me and my fiancée have a little obsession, it’s a little card game you may have heard of called Uno. Yep, you know the one, a colourful combination of Yellow, Red, Blue, and Green cards with a few wild cards and numbers. You’ve probably played it...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Aug 19, 2020 | My Life, Technology |
In February, I bought myself and my partner AirPods Pros, Apple’s flagship wireless earbuds. At £250 a pop, they’re a pricy investment, but are they worth the cost? The choice to buy these was partly because I’d seen a lot of people using the second-generation AirPods...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jun 30, 2020 | My Life |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 31, 2019 | My Life |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Sep 7, 2019 | My Life, Site News |
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.
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Aug 8, 2019 | In The News, Music |
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,...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jul 17, 2019 | My Life |
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,...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | May 5, 2019 | My Life, Technology |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 3, 2019 | Uncategorized |
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...