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My 1st Apple Mac9 years ago
I bought a Mac Book Pro last week. 10th August 2009. I’ll probably write up some notes about how I get it to do a job of work. The first set of notes I need were the HTML editor. despite having already installed Open Office, which has an editor. This …
UK Defence Review 20204 months ago
Thinking about defence policy, there’s going to be another review. This started as a collection of articles leaked or inspired probably by senior army officers but in Nov. Johnson made a financial announcement seemingly in advance of the review announcement which led to me doing some reading and looking at …
Using my Mac remotely8 months ago
I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party …
iF THIS THEN THAT8 years ago
The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. I have today, just created a trigger that takes my blog feed and posts it to facebook. Obviously I need to test it. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, …
UK Parliament Embedding Terms of Use7 years ago
I chose to embed a parliamentary video cast in one of my blog articles and this is the agreement required before it can be embedded. I can’t find a link, otherwise I’d do so. This was created in Dec 2013.

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