In honour of the great, Sir Sean Connery, I thought it would be fun to determine his best film through a film “knockout” competition.
Category: Internet
COVID-19 and Virtual Quizzes
Posted onIt is pretty easy to tell what the UK has been upto during the coronavirus lockdown, virtual pub quizzes! Obviously the scale of the two units, Google search hits (as a fraction of the most hits) and COVID-19 are very different. So I’ve taken a simple Z-transform to plot the data on the same scale.
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Enabling TeamViewer on TalkTalk routers
Posted onBy default the TalkTalk router blocks access to the TeamViewer website/app. Fortunately it is easy to stop it.
Relationship between Car Insurance Price and Population Density
Posted onThere was some discussion in my office today about the correlation between car insurance prices and where you live. The idea being that the prices are correlated with population density.
Number of Unique Song Choices on Desert Island Discs
Posted onDesert Island Discs celebrates its 75th birthday today, and today’s guest is David Beckham. Beckham will pick 8 song choices to take away with him on a desert island. What I wondered was, will all of his song choices have been picked by guests previously? With over 3,000 episodes there are going to be a lot
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Dealing with WordPress Security Issues
Posted onRecently another WordPress site that I manage has had a lot of malware issues.
Goodbye Google Reader
Posted onAs we say goodbye to one of my favourite Google features it is time to find a replacement.
My Favourite Wikipedia Page
Posted onEveryone should have a favourite Wikipedia page, and this is mine…
Google Chrome Extensions
Posted onInternet browsers are of fundamental importance to surfing the internet, you are using one right now! There are many debates about which browser is the best, and at some point I hope to write my own, I use Google Chrome and want to talk about my top 19 Google Chrome extensions. Extensions which will improve
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Time to Replace Spotify?
Posted onToday Spotify announced that it is cutting its free service to just 10 hours of music a month, and you can only listen to the same song 5 times a month. Even worse, this is going to affect ALL free users to the service, not just new ones. What to do?