Phone Car AccessoriesPhone Car Accessories
Tree Frog Dashboard Mat I’ve been given some more MobileZap products to review. The first is the Tree Frog anti-slip dashboard mat [1]. This is designed to allow a phone[...]
Google Hardware SupportGoogle Hardware Support
Ironically just 5 days after writing about how I choose Android devices for a long service life [1] my wife’s Nexus 5 (with 32G of RAM (sorry Flash storage) to[...]
Android Device Service LifeAndroid Device Service Life
In recent years Android devices have been the most expensive things I’ve purchased apart from airline tickets and other travel/holiday expenses. As they are expensive I’d like to use them[...]
Links May 2014Links May 2014
Charmian Gooch gave an interesting TED talk about her efforts to fight organised crime and corruption by prohibiting anonymous companies [1]. The idea of a company is to protect the[...]
Why I Use BTRFSWhy I Use BTRFS
I’ve just had to do yet another backup/format/restore operation on my workstation due to a BTRFS corruption problem, but as usual I didn’t lose any data. The BTRFS data integrity[...]
My First Ingress AnomalyMy First Ingress Anomaly
Ingress is an Android phone game developed by Google where you have to go to various places to capture “portals” which are based on landmarks or places of note. There’s[...]
Mobile Phones and Cognitive CostsMobile Phones and Cognitive Costs
I previously wrote about the case for a Basic Income in Australia [1]. Since then I read an interesting article by Rutger Bregman in the Dutch site The Correspondent discussing[...]
BTRFS vs LVMBTRFS vs LVM
For some years LVM (the Linux Logical Volume Manager) has been used in most Linux systems. LVM allows one or more storage devices (either disks, partitions, or RAID sets) to[...]
Source Escrow for Proprietary SoftwareSource Escrow for Proprietary Software
British taxpayers are paying for extra support for Windows XP due to a lack of planning by the UK government [1]. While the cost of this is trivial compared to[...]
Links April 2014Links April 2014
Yves Rossy is the Jetman, he flys with a wing and four jet engines strapped to his body, he gave an interesting TED talk about flying along with some exciting[...]