marxy's musing on technology

Sad news that my 97+ year old uncle Robert Glasser, ex VK3QA & VK3DRG, has died after a fall at home. Robert was my first exposure to th...

Close readers of this blog will have noticed that I do a national radio talk about technology every fortnight but this week I was away on a ...

On the trip north to the recent walk I was lucky enough to fly on a couple of different recent Airbus planes in the Qantas fleet. The last o...

I've just completed a beautiful 65km walk along the coast in Northern New South Wales.  The Yuraygir coastal walk started at Yamba and ...

Have you noticed those new "Make this a preferred source in Google" buttons appearing on news websites? What do they actually do? ...

Beloved next door neighbour Hansen Yee aged just 82 has died. Hansen was charming, modest and clearly intelligent. He was Associate Professo...

The " Cheap Yellow Display " boards are a low cost board with an ESP32, a colour touch screen and a bunch of other useful I/O. I...

I hand down my old laptops and phones to the kids who happily use them for years. Sometimes I try to hand down an update and are met with re...