If like me, you’ve been looking at printers recently, you might well have noticed that some printers now come with email addresses allowing you to email the printer with items to print. I’ve already written a few months ago about the fact that I chose to buy a Kyocera laser …
About 10 years ago, my best friend joked to me that she would love to attend a Masquerade Ball in the local barn. We discussed the dresses people attending would be wearing, the decorations on the tables and generally what a lovely event it would be. Since that day, I’ve …
I started my pension pot when I got my first job in 2007. Back then I just had a high savings account and put aside a set amount each month. This worked well, but the temptation can be quite high to spend the money. When I got my current job, …
I have a student loan like the majority of past university students. Every month from my salary a certain amount of money is taken off automatically by HMRC and allocated to the paying off of your student loan. I’m one of those people that likes to know how much I …
We went to watch the Olympic torch relay yesterday in our neighbouring town! One of our friends was running with the torch and we were watching from the point where we thought the cross over would happen. Getting really excited now about going to see the events we’ve got tickets …
There are many cases in a recent project I’ve worked on where we need to configure the app using properties and the properties values represent a list of objects. The list can be a variable size and the objects might not have all the same fields defined. The solution to …
It’s a little different from most peoples cats obsession with cardboard boxes… Mine likes to chew them to pieces! It might be related to the fact that we have a box in the kitchen which we put food waste into. One of them, Blaize, now chews any cardboard box left …
One of the reasons I purchased the Kyocera FS-1035MFP was due to the email functionality. On the night I received the device and plugged it in, I tried to send a document via e-mail, only to receive an error report from the device stating that the device didn’t have smtp …
We print a lot of documents in our household – roughly six thousand pages a year. When my previous employer decided to downsize, they got rid of a lot of furniture and equipment. They were getting rid of a couple of printers, one being an HP LJ5 and I asked …
When I was a kid, I used to get a big box of smarties most Christmases from a lady down the road. I loved smarties; they would be the one sweet I would ask for if my mum was buying us a treat. As a teenager I found that smarties …
We noticed the other day that one of the grey squirrels was checking out the ground below the bird table for peanuts. i joked that maybe the squirrel was rather smart and had lifted the acrylic screen and released all the peanuts from the squirrel feeding box. But we laughed …
As I mentioned in my previous post – Blue Tit bird box – at night – I wanted to capture a video of the blue tit in the box prior to the bird going to sleep. Unfortunately in this video (below), I haven’t captured the bird arriving, but it does …
We were wondering if there was a mouse in the house last week as the new cats were sitting besides furniture in our dining room all day. That evening we were watching TV when a mouse ran out from under the hi-fi stack. We went and got the humane trap …
The previous videos I’ve posted on YouTube have all been from the webcam that is installed in the Scaley’s bird box. The video in this post is from the night vision camera which plugs into a TV usually. Yes there are two cameras! It’s quite cramped at the top of …
As I mentioned back in November, I’ve been working on integrating with the PVOutput website so I don’t have to manually read the Sunnybeam output files and add stats to the website. In order to be able to look at creating a solution, I need a set of requirements. These …
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