Category: tech

7 January 2019

This one is for WordPress nerds, so be warned… Short answer: NO! I run several WordPress sites, and they have all updated themselves to use the new editor (Gutenberg) that came with Version 5. Gutenberg looks to me to be a work in progress, and has been, in…

24 December 2017

I’m trying out a smartphone with a camera on the principle that I don’t always have my proper camera with me and miss things. So far, quite liking the images, but disliking having to carry around a big slab instead of my little dumb phone that fits comfortably…

4 December 2017

I’ve often been amused by the pretentiousness of paint colour names, so coming across this blog article by Janelle Shane about training a neural net to invent names really tickled my fancy: http://aiweirdness.com/post/160985569682/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-part-2 I am planning to paint the downstairs loo in Farty Red with accents of Rose…

3 November 2017

I resisted joining Facebook and the like for a long time – on the (as it turns out justified!) grounds that it would waste too much time when I should be doing other stuff. I did set up a LinkedIn profile just because I thought I ought, but…