So I often get annoyed coming home from work that the platform indicator board at South Kensington only displays very close trains. It turns out that the API they offer has lots of useful data, that isn’t shown on the platform displays. Surely that’s not a hard fix if they have the data….. Anyway this […]
Category Archives: Technology
Oyster / Oyster Replacement over a wider area (PAYG)
Yes the government are doing a consultation on making more pay as you go options available. This in my opinion really needs doing, but there are two big things I want. One monthly and annual caps (ideally with X day a week options to cover part time commuters). Two if the technology needs replacing add […]
The phone line is fixed
So the phone line did get fixed before 1pm, thank you sky for getting BT openreach to deal with the fault. I am told there was a flood locally with lots of BT vans in the morning, hence guess them fixing that might be related. What was slightly annoying was making sure I was at […]
The phone line is down
So I got home to the phones saying check phone line and did the whole moving furniture to check the master socket and still no phone line. The good news is the broadband hasn’t died with it, but of course a half broken phone line makes me worry it will break some more. Sky took […]
It is not embossed – Debit Card
So my bank sent me a new debit card after the ticketmaster data breach. Thank you bank for looking after me, but I was surprised when this bank card turned up that it no longer has embossed numbers. As my friends pointed out to me on Facebook where I made a short comment on this […]
What I really, really want
Is a commercial grade device that connects to Ethernet and let’s me power cycle a single device remotely. What’s really annoying is I could knock something like this up for home and be happy it was safe enough, but when it comes to work we really want to be buying in professional grade products. Now […]
What I have got planned
Well there’s the running show, I’m off to next week. I’m spending more and more time playing in the mud and socialising with the friends I’ve made in the mud. So a fair few of the OCR Solo Mudders are off to the National Running show next week. (Once I’ve got my weight back down […]
EFI Dualboot – Changing EFI NVRAM boot order from Windows
So I was having some trouble making grub work on a machine that was running in EFI, but found the nice easy command efibootmgr for Linux to help me manage the boot order. “efibootmgr” without any switches to show me the current possible options and then “efibootmgr -n 0000” to tell it next reboot I […]