I received a box of chocolates today [so there’s a massive hint!] ; but I’ve changed the greeting, so you can work it out because there is a hidden message there!, so it’s not so obvious, because I’ve not openly as yet blogged about this yet. Close friends and family, may know!
This blog is just a placeholder, for a Big Thank you to – Karen, David, Kate & Matt for the chocolates! For cheering me up, in these dark times!
I’ve wanted to publish/write articles for Andysworld! For many years, directly from Microsoft Word (offline), and then hit a button to publish. I never noticed that Microsoft Word has this incorporated!
You select:-
Simply! Done!
Last week on Friday 6th February 2016, the latest list of vExperts for 2016, was posted here.
So let the fun begin…
Andy
I 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!
As we enter Winter today, with the Winter Solstice, Merry Christmas readers and subscribers everywhere! – Andy
Baxter Robot
The Baxter Robot was demonstrated in the Department of Computer Science this morning!
I’ve got my Beaujolais Nouveau!
Beaujolais Nouveau stand in Waitrose, Wilerby!
My bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau
Wuala 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originally allowed you to trade up storage, by offering storage on your computers to share with the cloud, this was withdrawn, a few years after I started using it!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!
In 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!
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