My gut feelings are that Castro was a good man, and that what he did for Cuba was a good thing. But as someone who tries to get a handle on history, I would like to read an unbiased account of the...
It's struck me for some time that most MP3-type recordings downloaded to iTunes from legitimate sources (Amazon, iTunes, etc)., always sound a bit "low-fi". I fiddle with the equalizer, but never seem...
My partner and me both have reasonable state pensions (40-ish years working and stamp-paying). When I die, does she get any of my state pension (as a regular payment)? Just some forward planning... A...
to a stage that we have to watch out Ps/ Qs without getting prosecuted ? I'm referring to any religion, especially the Muslim religion, it looks like we have to change what has been used for many...
Most older people see a tram as a railed vehicle sharing roads with other road transport. The Croydon 'tram' was on a railway network. Is there a new definition of the word 'tram' to mean a short...
When did studios start using outside filming rather than studio shots (with all the expensive of massive painted backdrops etc)? I take it that it changed when film and/or outdoor lighting progressed...
For the past few years, nearly every t-shirt I've bought from Premier Man or Jacamo has the SAME fault - a collar finished with sandpaper and stitched with sharp wire (or so my neck tells me). We wash...
I want to get an old (but expensive) office chair repaired (a Vitra). Most of the places I Google say "Nah, too old mate, can't get the parts" (etc). What I want is an OLD-fashioned workshop, with...
Are there any new designs of door chains, particularly for modern multi-lock doors?
And are they (the chains) any use, or would they get easily kicked in?
A...
English kids will, at the drop of a hat, go into that singy-songy "nah-nah-nee-nah-nah" thing. What about foreign children? Do French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu kids all have similar 'chants',...
I want to make a web page of b&w photos for other people (possibly a large number) to look at. I could use Dropbox, of course, but are there any others you'd recommend - easier to set-up, easier to...
Mother and father. Essential, otherwise you wouldn't be. Then, each of them has a mother and a father = 4 people. And each of them etc = 8 people. Etcetera. 3 - 4 generations per century. Take the...
I set up a couple of new Yahoo email addresses, as part of my move from Virgin. Fine, easy to do, and I could use LONG passwords. And then I tried setting up new mail programs on my desktop(as i'm fed...
Fed up with Virgin, partly because of their archaic password rules (10 characters only, letters and figures, no symbols), partly because between Virgin and Apple things seem to disappear. Anyway, I...
Continuing the password / security theme... How secure is a browser, in my case Firefox? If I keep passwords in its 'Saved Logins', can they be got at? The machine itself is protected by a 20-digit...
Continuing the internet security theme... Given that I've been around computers for 35+ years, manage my own complicated passwords (different ones for different websites), would a 'Last Pass' -type...
Any thoughts on backing up to 'the cloud'? I do regular back-ups to an external hard drive, but off-site (i.e. on-cloud) back-ups would possibly be more secure.
