random musings
My Cousin

Here is a story in the Belfast Telegraph about my rather brave cousin Diane McCaughan showing cancer who is boss.

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hardware
iPhone connection problems, and how to reset it, so it still won't work

I have two phones, currently a Samsung Galaxy S5 for domestic use, and an iPhone 4S for work. I used to have an iPhone 4 for work but its radio functionality started sporadically not working. Actually it would be better to say it didn't work and would sporadically work. About a week ago, my 4S […]

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Free Software
Upgrading from Serendipity to WordPress on Debian

As you may have noticed, I have upgraded from Serendipity, which was creaking a bit, and seems to no longer be supported by Debian to WordPress. It was a moderately complex task, as I wanted to preserve backwards compatibility and a lot of content with mathematics and code. I installed the Debian package, and tried […]

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STEM
Chess Boards, Exponential Growth and the Ice Bucket Challenge

Yesterday I was finally nominated for the Ice Bucket Challenge, I had actually thought this inevitable for the reasons in this post, but then it all kind of passed by. As it happens, it was my Daughter Aimee's fault in the end. :-). So I thought I would use the opportunity to bore people about […]

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