Monday, 7 April 2025

Microsoft Annoyances

 So, we at the Trees have invested in a new computer.  

As we are too old to switch, it is another Microsoft Windows box.  

It is fast and powerful.

But it has taken days to set it up.  Mostly spent switching off all of the 'features' Microsoft now ships, from news feeds from providers we have no interest in, Bing and Edge, Copilot, in fact all AI, prompts in all the wrong places, encouragement to use their version of the cloud (aka someone else's computer) for our files.

And on and on.

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Ludvig

 An enjoyable cryptic April Fool crossword in the Graun, today

Friday, 28 March 2025

Fry on AI

 This Substack article by Stephen Fry is rather good...

AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Monday, 17 March 2025

Anti-Fascist Chener

The display window in Chener books is currently wonderful.

I wonder what prompted it?