After my serious posts of late I thought I’d end the year with a bit of humour… Bought my son a new pair of Puma trainers yesterday and I wanted to share a couple of gems that I discovered on the box. The first as you can see here is “Average Contents 2” … as […]
Author: Stuart Lynn
Based in the North East of England, and representing North Shields Poly Athletics Club, Stuart Lynn (M60) is a 100m, 200m and 400m Masters Athlete.
Dell is probably a very reliable company most of the time, but I’ve seen a very different side lately… I’ve been a Dell advocate for at least 13 years now… Having bought a number of Dell machines for home use and having lost count of the many many Dell machines I’ve bought and used in a […]
If you’re having this problem then you’re not alone. A quick look on the Apple forums will tell you that there is a problem with the sync getting stuck either on step4 or 4 if you’re trying to sync by wireless, or step 6 of 6 is you’re plugged in. Read through the forum replies […]
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to show a keynote presentation, or flash up a spread sheet on my iPad and I haven’t had my VGA adapter handy and have had to go through the well documented workaround of screen dumping each slide to a photo and then using Airplay to show […]
There have been lots of reports in the press about how battery life has taken a hit following people buying the new iPhone 4s and from people who have upgraded to iOS5. This isn’t something new as I found that my battery life used to be poor on iOS4 until I turned off spotlight search. […]
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it is Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that […]
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Is Apple losing the plot??
If you read my blog you’ll know I’m a fan of all things Apple but of late I’ve been noticing a few things starting to go slightly wrong: When I connected my iPad to my PC for an update last night the update was a whopping 500meg allegedly only to fix a small security vulnerability. […]
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Stories vs Facts
There is a great piece by Johann Hari in today’s independent where he gives a personal apology around using some not so ethical techniques when creating stories, I’d encourage everyone to read it here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html This piece struck a chord with me for a number of reasons. As someone on the receiving end of this type […]
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Amazon = Amazing Customer Experience
I’ve not posted for a while but I feel the need to blog tonight about the most fantastic service I experienced lately from Amazon. If you’re a regular visitor to my blog you’ll know that I’ve previously raved about the Amazon Kindle. It’s a fantastic device and I have to say that it’s been used daily […]
A colleague pointed out this excellent article in the Financial Times recently by Richard Waters on the subject of the internet bubble. There are lots of very good examples in the article of how tech companies are valuing themselves in order to look attractive to potential buyers. However the key word in that sentence is […]
Stuart Lynn - Masters Athlete 