Introduction Recently Microsoft announced a bit of a climb down over its release of Windows 8.1 to MSDN developers (like me). Their previous stand was for developers to get 8.1 at the same time as commercial release. So I’ve had a look, installing it into a VirtualBox environment… The focus of this article is on […]
Pre-Emptive rationing Behaviour In the spirit of the recent government diktat from dorky Francis Maude for all motorists to get into their cars, then queue for hours to buy up all available petrol, I’ve decided to jump the gun on the water shortage! I’ve now run round the house turning all the taps on and […]
Neonicotinoid pesticides and Colony Collapse Disorder The Register reports on what seems to be a pretty good study from some guys at Stirling and Lancaster Universities in the UK. The “boffin-years” worked (as The Register puts it) by them and another French team now have very good proof that it’s a group of pesticides, […]
Windows 8 Developer Preview I’ve finally decided to test the next Windows edition, probably to be called Windows 8, although things like that are never certain in Microsoft-land. Virtual Box I did a Virtual Box install, which is fairly straightforward. There are many tutorials on-line now which show how to do this, so I won’t […]
It Was 50 Years Ago, Today …when mankind left the gravitational confines of our Earth. A poor boy from the steppes, Yuri Gagarin, simultaneously became the first man in space and the first man to leave Earth and orbit it completely. (This is something that took NASA several steps before John Glenn finally emulated the […]
