Last week on Friday 6th February 2016, the latest list of vExperts for 2016, was posted here.
So let the fun begin…
Andy
Archive for the ‘All’ Category
I’m a VMware Expert 2016, that’s six years in a row! @vExpert
Monday, February 8th, 2016HOW TO: Post a URL to Google+
Monday, February 8th, 2016I keep forgetting, how to post a URL to Google+, simply just put the following in front or your URL
https://plus.google.com/share?url=PUT_YOUR_URL_HERE
Your blog may do this automatically, but mine does not!
Simply!
BB-8 – This is the Droid you’re looking for from @Sphero
Friday, February 5th, 2016
Andysworld! Merry Christmas Everyone!
Monday, December 21st, 2015
As we enter Winter today, with the Winter Solstice, Merry Christmas readers and subscribers everywhere! – Andy
Fancy a late Christmas Present! The Baxter Robot!
Monday, December 21st, 2015
Baxter Robot
The Baxter Robot was demonstrated in the Department of Computer Science this morning!
Happy Beaujolais Day!
Thursday, November 19th, 2015I’ve got my Beaujolais Nouveau!
Beaujolais Nouveau stand in Waitrose, Wilerby!
My bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau
Wuala by LaCie service, comes to an end! Goodbye Wuala!
Saturday, November 14th, 2015Wuala by LaCie comes to end today (15th November 2015). You’ve maybe never heard of it, but it was one of the first pioneers of Secure Cloud Storage, that not only offered traditional Sync, similar to Dropbox, but Backup, Sync, Change Control, Version Control – with a Standalone Java Application, that operated across all platforms, to Browser Client, and support for all mobile devices. A brilliant cloud storage platform, which originally allowed you to trade up storage, by offering storage on your computers to share with the cloud, this was withdrawn, a few years after I started using it!
Wuala
I came across Wuala, when I purchase a USB flash drive from LaCie, in 2010, and I’ve been using it every day, with family and friends.
It had a simple interface, and I really enjoyed using it! and I’ve not found a replacement with similar functionality, and I’ve checkout out, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox, Box and finally Tresorit
Wuala
I can only assume, that since Seagate purchased LaCie in 2012, it’s not in Seagate business model, to own and run a Secure Cloud Storage company, or Seagate/LaCie could not compete with the various Cloud Storage platforms available online today, and it was running at a loss!
Happy Halloween 2015
Saturday, October 31st, 2015In an Andysworld yearly tradition, Happy Halloween, and Welcome To The Great Pumpkin Massacre of 2015. I’ve been growing my large Atlantic pumpkin this year, which weighed just short of 10kg, I’m afraid I lost to my work colleague, who’s pumpkin weighed in at 17kg! So freshly picked from the allotment this morning, and slaughtered and carved this evening!
Fresh pumpkin on the allotment
Fresh pumpkin on the allotment
It has been rubbish weather this year for growing pumpkins, and very few fruits, set correctly, this was the only one, early in the year.
Slaughtered, and carved!
Slaughtered, and carved in the dark!
Summer’s End
Friday, September 18th, 2015At Summer’s End, as the Autumnal Equinox approaches (23 September 2015), the butterflies grab a last nectar bite, before the Buddleia Davidii stops flowering, when the day is warm, and the sun is out. Here are a few snaps I took with my age-ing (2013) Google Nexus 4 running Android 5.x something, unedited, not tampered with, straight off the phone, just shrunk an reduced in size. (as I’m often asked, what digital SLR, and macro lens did I use – Answer NONE!)
You can see by the tatty wings on these butterflies, these are old butterflies….
Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa Atalanta
Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa Atalanta
Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria ssp. tircis
Why Einstein A Go Go ?
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
A few have commented on twitter, what a fantastic handle, or why @einsteinagogo ?
so I’ll lift the lid on the secret…very few know the actual reference is to an eighties song (1981) by Landscape – “Einstein A Go Go” – “You Better Watch Out You Better Beware Albert said that E=mc2” – “Einstein A Go Go“! Landscape had hits with “Einstein A Go Go” and “Norman Bates” in the UK Pop Charts in the 80s.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Albert Einstein, and I thought @einstein (although my citizen band radio handle late 70s/early 80s) was to egocentric for twitter, although I do have a rather large head!
so @einsteinagogo it was, I think the first reference (einstein-a-go-go) of using it was on the VMware Community Forums in 2005!
Mike Laverick of VMware fame (from Nottingham, UK) spotted it quickly on the VMware Community Forums, and wrote “fan of Landscape” from an early posting in 2005.
Quotes by Albert Einstein
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Information is not knowledge.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
So now you know!
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