Having a Remote Desktop tool is a terrific bonus. For a few years I’ve used Teamviewer to remote control the computers of my kids and family members. As an IT Consultant, I’m the goto person for fixing any computer problems and/or helping with online homework, answering weird questions about why some piece of software works […]
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Microsoft Project 2010 is arguably the best project management application out there. I regularly brush with it, see its efficacy, try to use it but will sooner later get confused by gantt charts and how they can be setup. I always seem to spend a lot of time trying to create a Project before completely […]
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I haven’t enjoyed a decent blog rant for some time so… nothing technical in this blog but lots of blowing off steam 🙂 There is a disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in 2019 American culture: the flippant dismissal of science, the decline of arts and humanities. Critical thinking is being replaced by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, […]
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This morning I awoke to find an email from a digital blackmailer. This email shows one of my commonly used login email accounts plus one of my more commonly used password. Yikes! My password information has been leaked from somewhere! I’ve received several email just like this over recent weeks. Each time it shows my […]
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What’s new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in favour of GNOME. I was a little nervous about what i was going to see when I upgraded my trusty old Thinkpad W700 from Ubuntu 17 to Ubuntu 18. But, surprise surprise, the desktop looks […]
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Life , Programming , Religion
Hands up and stand away from the keyboard. It’s time for a thinking day. Do a little less for one day might mean doing far more for many more…. It’s not often I blog about somebody elses blog… is that Blogging2? Yesterday, I read this excellent article by John Donahoe, previous CEO of Ebay. Published […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming , RPG
+Happy New Year 2018. One of my new years resolutions was to write cleaner code, and in the spirit of out with the old and in with the new… I already use the RPG COPYRIGHT statement and the CL COPYRIGHT STATEMENT to store the copyright message and (more importantly to me) the Version or Release number […]
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I emigrated from Britain ten years ago… Reluctantly leaving Blighty’s green and pleasant shores, optimistic for my future abroad but sadly mourning the collapse of the England I had grown up in: A gradual diminishing of the essence of what it means to be English. To me “Being English” is a mish-mash of feelings, emotions […]
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Bailey Version 2.0 –Â He’s my wing man and constant companion. He never nags, never complains and is always thrilled to see me whether I have left him alone for a minute or for a day. To test if your dog loves you more than your wife – trying locking your pet and your wife in […]
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But before I waffle about the Litten Family Crest, let’s talk about this blog entry — a few years ago, I decided to start researching my family name “Litten”. I dug around on the interwebs, found lots of interesting stuff and lots of random guff, wrote most of this blog, then clicked SAVE AS DRAFT, […]
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