To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, here is my arrangement of St. Patrick’s Breastplate.
St. Patrick’s Day
Author Archives: Paul Taylor
Linux Printers and Scanners
In a previous articles on Ubuntu and Mint, I commented on how easy it now was to install network printers on these easy-to-use Linux distros. Dialog boxes opened for easy searching for network printers. But I also noted that I could not get the scanner elements of my multi-function devices to be recognized. However, I…
Athanasian Creed
How many people know the Athanasian Creed today? In the old 1662 Book of Common Prayer, in the Church of England, three creeds were printed, to be collectively read and declared by congregations. There were ther Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. These were used frequently. The Athanasian Creed is longer, and was not used…
Create Space Is No More
I have enjoyed producing books on the CreateSpace platform over the last several years. However, in recent months, we have watched certain features gradually disappear from CreateSpace, while Amazon expanded its KDP publishing service to include paperbacks, as well as Kindle ebooks. The move might be positive, however, in the way it makes me organize…
Sir Cliff vs the BBC
Cliff’s Four Year Ordeal On Wednesday July 18th, Britain’s best known pop / rock star, Sir Cliff Richard, won his privacy battle against the BBC in the High Court. It was the public and unprovoked nature of the raid – not the necessity of investigating allegations – to which Sir Cliff objected. The background to…
FLAC and Creation
For years, we have all been pretty impressed with mp3s. They gave us access to music in a conveniently small file size that we could download. Software appeared, that could rip CDs into mp3s, so that we could carry our favorite albums on our iPods, or other mp3 players. Gradually, smartphones took over from these…
LibreOffice 6
I have been a fan of LibreOffice for quite a while. In fact, I have used it on Windows since the old days of Sun System's OpenOffice.org. When the Document Foundation forked the project to produce LibreOffice, that was my route, as I found there was a lot more support there. When I took the…
Technology and Privacy
There is a lot being said and written at the moment about digital privacy. Many people are getting very concerned about the over-use of personal data by companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. Maybe it is time to do something about it. I don't have all the answers. However, here are some of the things…