Transferring calendar and contacts from Nokia to Google
I recently upgraded my lovely but old-fashioned Nokia N73 to a shiny new Android – the HTC Desire. It’s a great phone, but I have hundreds of events, contacts, tasks, and notes in the N73. How to get...
View ArticleArchiving RockYou slideshows
Aidan’s amazing primary 2 teacher keeps a class blog, which is full of lovely slideshows of pictures of the class and what they’re up to (mostly taken by the kids themselves – the “media team”!). It’s...
View ArticleSorting MP3s on a Sony Walkman NWZ-B152 player
I bought an MP3 player yesterday for the kids, for bedtime music. They’re currently using an old Nokia phone, but it’s a bit broken and hard to navigate and the internal speaker isn’t that great. The...
View ArticleAndroid recovery
I had to back up C’s HTC Desire phone today, with a broken screen. A bit challenging – how to start random applications on Android without any feedback? adb to the rescue, plus my identical phone....
View ArticleWordPress upgrade 500 Internal Server Error
I used the auto-upgrade in wp-admin to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress on one of my WordPress-hosted blogs. It downloaded, and then presented me with a 500 Internal Server Error. Tediously,...
View Articleplink port forwarding works but PuTTy’s doesn’t
Bizarrely, the answer is “fonts”! Spent ages last night trying to work out why on my new PC forwarding 9418 to localhost port 9418 wasn’t working: Curiously, X11 forwarding worked, and plink -L...
View ArticleSDR and weather stations
I’ve been having fun recently learning about software defined radio (SDR). The impetus is this weather station, which Aidan got for Christmas. We’ve all very much enjoyed the information it provides,...
View ArticlePrécis of Danesfahani and Jeans, Optimisation of modified Mueller and Müller...
This post is a summary of the main content of G. R. Danesfahani and T. G. Jeans, Optimisation of modified Mueller and Müller algorithm, Electronics Letters 31(13), 22nd June 1995, pages 1032-1033 (DOI...
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