Author: Tim
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Serenity and Symmetry
It was a bright, mild day in early spring. A gentle breeze flowed into the room through windows overlooking a quadrangle, bringing with it a freshness and sense of calm.
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Bigger, better, faster, more?
In recent years I’ve become increasingly interested in what are, by mass consumer standards, ‘low‑spec’ technologies. The Arduino range of microcontrollers, available to buy new in 2020, are (compared to the laptop I wrote this post on) roughly as powerful as the first ZX Spectrum I used in the 1980s. CPU speed is measured in…
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Introducing the COVIDator 3000 #COVID19
A friend contacted me the other day with a problem. How could they reopen their office without exposing workers to unnecessary risk and their company to unwanted insurance claims?
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(X)ubuntu cpufreq and cpufreqd (adventures in cooling)
My long-serving and, until now, totally reliable laptop started to misbehave last week. Working from home demanded that I install some new software, which I initially blamed for the system crashes. But the problem persisted when I removed the newcomers and a little digging revealed that the processor was overheating.
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Messiness and the Struggle for Air
I’ve found myself reflecting a number of times on a post written by my friend Mark a couple of weeks ago. I was particularly taken by its openness. I have another, anonymous blog which I occasionally use for the thoughts that feel too personal to put here. There’s nothing controversial or extreme, but it’s interesting…
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Is Labour’s ‘Freebie ISP’ a good idea? #freebroadband #BLBroadband
I don’t give too much credence to election pledges from any political party. They are, in my opinion, carefully calculated bribes incentives to buy votes persuade the more easily swayed elements of the electorate; promises to be broken, forgotten, or re-interpreted once power is secured. Promises to implement policies and implemented policies are two very…
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When masks slip #deception and #honesty
Most people, I suspect, wear masks at various points in their lives. I’m not talking about physical masks in the halloween or fancy dress sense, but the pretence involved when someone masks their true feelings or, more fundamentally, their true character.
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Three fail (again) @ThreeUK @ThreeUKSupport
In a perfect world, this post would have been a discussion of my new 4G home Internet connection, the features of the router, network performance and that kind of thing. Sadly, perfection and Three never seem to be words that I can use in the same sentence (except this one). I probably should have slept…
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Good Day List, Bad Day List #projectstudents
We all have our ups and downs in life and, speaking personally, this certainly applies to study. How can you maintain motivation and momentum on days when study feels like the last thing you want to do? In this post I’ll share a simple technique that continues to work well for me whether it’s a…
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Stats, fun thyself! #students_are_human_beings
It’s easy to forget that our students are human beings.
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