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Write letters that create impact - use a personal letterhead
Like most people nowdays in the modern technology filled society I rarely feel the need to write a letter, but on the rare occasion I do I want it to look professional.
It came as a suprise to me that none of my peers shared the same passion as a quick poll showed that nobody had their own personal letterhead.
As I mentioned before my snail mail more »
Musing of the day 20-Nov-2015
I'm currently in Ghent for the famous 6 day race at the velodrome. The atmosphere is awesome the best inner circle is packed with beer drinking spectators enjoying the spectacle and dancing to the music the DJ is pumping out in time to the racing. All this beer drinking has its downside though, every toilet in Belgium seems to be chargeable, even more »
Best way to optimise images and pictures to display on the web
Conscious that hosting a website from a home internet connection from the Raspberry Pi may lead to slower load time than you'd want I've been working on speeding up its response. I've always been focused on server speed throughout its whole development in a bid to speed up load times. I think I've got it cracked – but the only thing I'm more »
Musing of the day 15-Nov-2015
Another 'never thought I'd say it' musing of the day, it turns out I actually found a legitimate use for facebook! It's not that I'm against faffing on the internet - hell I'm probably one of the worst proponents, it is just beyond me why you'd want to depress yourself by endlessly scrolling through facebook as the numerous studies have proven. more »
TF2 Extreme Wet Lubricant
TF2 Extreme Wet Lubricant
Reviewed by Martin Childs
Weldite, 75ml £3.49/ 125ml £5.79 (£46 per litre)
Seriously sticky, but too much goop?
I thought I was on a winner here, an extreme wet lube with TF2 for extra slipperiness at an OK price.
Well I was just plain wrong! This stuff does live up to it's extreme moniker but it more »
Musing of the Day
Pubs where the standard pracitce is to form an orderly queue: Chris Boardman Bar, Manchester Velodrome Mardis Gras, Whetherspoons at the Trafford more »
How to create real time graphs of CPU temperature on a Raspberry Pi
Probably heavily linked with my inner analyst, for a while now I've wanted to create some real-time graphing of some of my raspberry pi stats. I've had a couple of stabs at it but getting it to actually work has eluded me until now.
The below example guides you through how to plot your CPU temp as a graph to an image file, the code is in my github more »
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