I first came across the Retro Computer Museum in 2010 when I saw the guys who run it give a presentation at the Vintage Computer Festival. Back then they didn’t have a permanent “home” and could only hold a few open days per year in the village hall in Coalville. Since then they have worked
Month: January 2013
Evolve or Die! Goodbye Blockbusters, HMV and Jessops
It’s been a bit brutal on the retail front in the UK of late. HMV, Blockbusters and Jessops all entered administration in January 2013. The list of big name retailers to run into problems grows at an alarming rate. In every report I’ve seen or heard about all of these retailers one of the main
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Book Review: Deadline by Mira Grant
So as part of my new year post I said I wanted to get back into the reading habit. I also said that once I actually started I wasn’t expecting it to be problem to read a book a month as the old habits would return. Looks like I was right! As of the of
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Logging Onto A Local Account With Windows
This is one of those really small things I didn’t realise you could do that’s actually really helpful. It’s one of those things that isn’t really a secret but I’ve just never come across it. With a Windows XP or Windows 2003 machine that was domain joined if you needed to logon to a local
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2012–NOT the end the of the world
So 2012 is done and dusted. If i was trying to sum up 2012 in one word…..BUSY. An awful lot changed in 2012, personally and professionally. I haven’t quite gotten a handle on the whole thing and I’m still forming new habits and routines to make sure I can fit everything in! Our biggest piece
