Once again it is only a couple of weeks, less than a week, a day until the start of this year’s RPM Challenge, so it’s time for me to once again write a long-overdue blog post about last year’s recording… As ever, your regular reminder that the RPM Challenge is a challenge to record an […]
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I Love The NHS
Today is the 75th anniversary of the NHS, and I thought I would recount one of my more extreme experiences with it. I’ve been meaning to type this up for quite some time. Some years ago, I woke up and I had the most incredible pain in my chest. Taking more than about half a […]
Continue readingThank You, Sir Clive
Yesterday (Thursday 16th September 2021), I was sad to learn that Clive Sinclair has died. When I was younger (back in the early 1980s), I had a passing interest in electronics. My dad (a telephone engineer) taught me to solder. I built a few kits. I could understand simple circuit diagrams. It never went very […]
Continue readingDear Apple, Please Let Me Give You My Money
I was reading a very interesting article by Charlie Brooker on the Grauniad site which reminded me of the time that Apple wouldn’t let me give them money without installing their software.
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