Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ideas around the home

By John | December 31, 2008

Today I finally got around to correcting the programming for our outside lights, which I screwed up when we switched from summer time several weeks ago. The programming for the lights and for the outside blinds is performed by complicated sequences of button-pushes on the above controllers. The sequences are so complicated, and the handbooks [...]

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Adobe, Mac and the Post don’t get on

By John | December 15, 2008

The German Post and their parcel service, DHL, have a great internet service – you can print your own stamps online (Just don’t try to use the internet address printed on the stamps – it doesn’t exist! It seems to have been a temporary glitch – the address is online now) or print out pre-paid [...]

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Why the finance crisis isn’t over yet

By John | December 3, 2008

An interesting article in the New York Times last week, about the complete and on-going irresponsibility of retail banks and credit card companies in the USA. If you’ve been reading the financial press for the last month or two, you’ll have read that after the mortgage crisis, we are going to have the credit card [...]

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