Dell Lattitude E6520
My Dell Lattitude E6520 is seven years old. Still running fine. I did change the hard disk drive to an SSD a while ago. This happened after a failed upgrade of Windows 10. I had been running Windows 10 for … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Technology
Updated the default character set on mysql server to utf8mb4 💩
I had to update the default character set to utf8mb4 on my mysql server. I was getting quite a few submissions on my tomcat hosted systems with emojies like the ? symbol being inserted. These always failed with a database error. Reading up about … Continue reading →
Home Computer Problems
Last weekend the laptop, a many year old Dell E6520, decided it should update Windows 10 to the anniversary version (1607). There was much churning of wheels. The machine restarted and displayed a blue screen, with the wonderful words that an … Continue reading →
WordPress 4.4 Installed
Successful upgrade to WordPress 4.4
Land Rover Defender
Wednesday a group of us went to Land Rover Solihull factory to have a look around the factory and see the last of the Land Rover Defenders coming off the production line. We started the day at a nearby pub … Continue reading →