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 | My Life, Technology |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 18, 2018 | Robert Investigates, Technology, Work |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 15, 2018 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials |
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...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Sep 13, 2018 | Technology, Tutorials |
I recently switched server hosting and whilst rebuilding, I decided to optimize my setup by switching my web server exclusively to Nginx. The challenge was getting WordPress to work with the new set up. The majority of independent guides for setting up WordPress will...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jul 3, 2018 | My Life, Robert Investigates |
Ah, who doesn’t love a bit of YouTube drama? Whilst I’ve tried my best to stay out of it (mainly by being a total nobody on the platform), I think what happened to my account is the start of something that’s going to spiral out of control. A light...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jun 11, 2018 | My Life, Technology |
I’ve been into computing for a very long time, being introduced to computers from a very young age. Some of my most fond memories of this particular hobby are from my youngest days, where even most the mundane things seemed really interesting, probably because...