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I’ve just migrated this blog to Digital Ocean.  The blog is now located in their New York data centre because most of my visitors are from the US.   Hopefully this should make it faster for the majority of my users.

You can make a user a sudoer in Ubuntu 14.04 by adding them to the sudo group.  Obviously you need to have root permission to do this. adduser youusername sudo

The U.K. Governments new contract which they imposing on the junior doctors is terrible.  Here is a well written article explaining why is it so bad: http://www.drphilhammond.com/blog/2016/03/09/private-eye/the-junior-doctors-dispute-explained-simply-but-in-detail/ I will be supporting their strikes. 

My friend has a reasonably new Mazda MX3.  Unfortunately she could not get her phone to connect to the Mazda’s bluetooth.  The main problem was that the Mazda bluetooth never appeared as a device on her iPhone.   She asked me to help and we followed the instructions in the manual.  The instructions for connecting a … Read more

I never signed up to Vodafone marketing (spam) text messages in the first place but they send them to me anyway. I’m sure this isn’t legal.  Anyhow, they offer the option of opting out but seem to keep sending them anyway.  I really wish there was a good small customer facing mobile company I could … Read more

It seems to be a common problem that people want to stop accidentally making a request to Siri or using the voice control when the phone is locked. I’ve been in meetings when at least four different people have checked their iphone, launched Siri and then had their phone announce to the room ‘I’m sorry … Read more

I hate companies that don’t provide pricing up front on their website and get a software sales person to call you. To stop you having to give them your details they charge – $300 per month for up to 25 hosts. Over 25 hosts – they make up the price each time based on your … Read more

I just visited the Headington Festival and saw the Headington Hillbillies playing. They were really good fun and played so great songs.      There was also a really cool classically jazz pianist with a portable piano.    The Headington festival was great fun and I’ll definitely be going next year. 

I’ve just launched a new website for our flat rental in Aberdovey called Aberdovey Sea Front Accommodation. We started to rent the flat last year and it has been going really well.

I’ve just been trying to buy a few hundred pallets and confusingly there seems to be licensed pallets and unlicensed pallets. A licensed (or stamped) pallet is a pallet that has been made to a particular specification and is guaranteed to carry 1 ton. All licensed pallets are made in the same way, using the … Read more