Entropy1024

Day Trip to Brighton

Entropy1024 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:10:42 +0000

For our first anniversary Tracey and I were going to have tea at the BFI, where we first met. At the Last minute we decided to got to Brighton instead, Tracey had received an invite to a friend of hers Birthday party there. A day trip to the sea side sounded perfect. We got the train [...]

Google Music – The spice must flow

Entropy1024 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:24:35 +0000

I had always thought that by this time phones would have at least 32gig of space built in and that micro SD cards would be in the 64 Gig range. Unfortunately we are not there yet. This may be a side effect of everything moving to the cloud as less & less local storage is [...]

Ireland, an ISO 3200 Country

Entropy1024 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:58:10 +0000

Tuesday 18th October 2011

I have never been to Ireland before. Whenever I think of holiday destinations I think of warm places, it felt very odd packing a woolly hat, fleece and my waterproof cycling trousers for a holiday, but boy would I need them. We flew with Ryanair which was perfectly fine but [...]

Somerset & Sulis

Entropy1024 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:19:06 +0000

Saturday 17 September, 2011

Tracey and I booked a weekend stay in Bath, or Aquae Sulis (Waters of Sulis) if you are a Roman. As it turned out this weekend was a special Jane Austin event, this duth maketh for a most agreeable visit.

Coming Soon at Bath Abbey

We arrived a Bath Spa train station [...]

Crab & Winkle Way

Entropy1024 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:54:00 +0000

On Saturday 6th August, Tracey and I decided to get away from the hustle and bustle of the big smoke and go for a walk in Kent. We settled on the Crab & Winkle Way which is a cycle/walkway that mostly follows the route of an old train line from Canterbury and Whitstable. This line was possibly the first train [...]

Wave-Particle Duality of Light

Entropy1024 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:20:14 +0000

I think it’s about time I wrote about something that rocked my world and really got me interested in Quantum Physics. In an experiment carried out by Thomas Young over 200 years ago he proved that light travelled as a wave, however it would take another 100 years before the true and extremely strange nature behind how [...]

Holiday in Lanzarote

Entropy1024 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:20:39 +0000

Sunday, 22 May

In preparation for the transatlantic voyage next year Dad and I flew out to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to spend one week working on the boat to get it all ship shape (literally). The second week will then be spent relaxing at a hotel in Playa Blanca, also on the second week the [...]

Portland

Entropy1024 — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:25:41 +0000

Friday 29th Apr 2011

We decided to take advantage of the bank holiday and have a few days in Portland, Dorset. It was also good to get out of town because of the royal wedding, can’t be doing with all that nonsense. Because of the wedding the roads were deserted, so it did us a [...]

RAID: Safety in numbers

Entropy1024 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:55:11 +0000

Inside your PC is probably a single hard drive. It may be partitioned into a couple or more sections but it’s still one single physical drive. If this drive fails you can lose all the data on that device. Not a good place to be in. A little known fact is that hard drives have minor failures [...]

The Cloud. Resistance is Futile.

Entropy1024 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:54:38 +0000

When computers were the size of small houses and there were very few in operation; most people accessed them via remote terminals, either in the same building or over large distances. These dumb terminals were effectively simple input/output devices and therefore needed very little processing power. All the main work was stored and executed by [...]

Me and my Droid

Entropy1024 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:30:09 +0000

My old cell phone, a Nokia 82, lasted me 2 years and is still a very capable phone, but with the Symbian60 Operating System (OS) reaching the end of life and the appeal of a large touch screen display with much better web browsing became too much and I had to upgrade.

Years ago buying [...]

Advertising & Zombies

Entropy1024 — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:17:53 +0000

First off; what I am about to say, in a no doubt rambling fashion, is certainly going to be much better summed up by a famous Bill Hicks statement at the end of this blog post. So I won’t be upset if you ‘skip to the end’ here and just go to the quote.

I [...]