Category: Journal

  • Huel v3.0:  £10 discount voucher for your first purchase!

    Huel v3.0: £10 discount voucher for your first purchase!

    Huel have changed their recipe! It’s the biggest change since the launch of Huel and I’m not quite sure I’m on board. I reckon it will probably be better for new customers, but I was used to that old gritty flavour 🙂 Lots of discussion about it on their forums and on r/Huel too. Not…

  • Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH / FTTP) broadband installation – BT Openreach (from BT, Sky, TalkTalk and similar ISPs)

    Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH / FTTP) broadband installation – BT Openreach (from BT, Sky, TalkTalk and similar ISPs)

    The route to getting Fibre Broadband This would be three years in the making for myself, so it couldn’t have come soon enough! There are already a couple of blogs that cover off Openreach’s process for installing Full Fibre Broadband, but most are three or four years old and there were a couple of differences…

  • BT, Openreach – consistently incompetent?

    So, after my last blog on super fast broadband a little while ago I did eventually get somewhere with BT.  Hoards of Openreach vans descended on us from September to November 2017 to lay fibre to all the BT manholes around the housing development – FTTH was coming to this part of the North Cotswolds…

  • 4K HDR TV Format: iPlayer 4K device support

    Update: The upcoming Amazon 4K Fire TV Stick will now support HLG – find out more | buy here. The plethora of 4K UHD formats looks like the format wars of  Betamax vs VHS, BluRay Vs … well, whatever the other HD media disc thing was, MP4 and er, OGG(?) all over again.TLDR: your iPlayer…

  • Scream if you want to go faster…

    AKA: Where is our superfast broadband? An open letter to Fastershire, Openreach, Gigaclear, Gloucestershire CC, Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP For 4 years now the our development (comprising >300 new build homes in Moreton-in-Marsh) has been promised broadband as part of the ‘Fastershire’ roll out plan. As far back as 2013 the Fastershire status for…

  • Guide: Automate MP4 FFMPEG video encoding as an Automator Service

    Guide: Automate MP4 FFMPEG video encoding as an Automator Service

    If you frequently find yourself needing to encode files, you can speed this process up by adding a service. You can then transcode your files by right clicking, hovering over the services option, and then selecting your encoding service. Could it get any easier? No.

  • Spending for future growth?

    Firstly this is a political post (albeit politically-agnostic), but also a bit of a rant: There’s a major problem with the table shown below: it shows evidence of short term thinking. Really short term thinking. You can see in the table that the UK is now spending more on nearly everything except education:

  • Nick Trueman – Domestic Appliance Specialists, Sales & Repairs in Moreton in Marsh

    Tel: 01608 652061 Mob: 07976 894868 Email: [email protected] I couldn’t find these details anywhere when our washing machine broke, so I will leave them here and hopefully they will be useful to someone. Update: looks like he’s now online with his own website here.

  • Contact Form Spam

    Not seen that before: This morning I received some spam through a web page. However, this was contact form spam that was promoting software to spam contact forms. ffs… I suppose at least I’m convinced the product works, unlike most of the contact form spam I receive. Not sure I’ll be following it up though.