Mike Hill
meadowend.bsky.social
Mike Hill
@meadowend.bsky.social
Brit. Passionate European. Studied physics at Imperial College, London. Formerly of ICBC. Retired tech marketer. Chorister, cyclist, skier. Refugee from the bird site.

Dallied on Threads (as @meadowend51) but that’s going the way of X…
Picked up “A History of the World in 47 Borders” by @jonnelledge.bsky.social at the airport yesterday. Fascinating. Well worth a read.
April 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The spec for my M2 MacBook Air says it can support one external monitor.

I currently have it running with two external HD monitors, an iPad as an extra monitor, plus its internal monitor.

Here's the Arrange Display setting...
January 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
OK, sorted. Door seal stuck back with Duck Trim Repair Tape (which sadly they no longer make). Tyre inflator had a broken cable at the contact in the 12V plug. I dismantled the plug, cut the cable back, tinned and re-soldered both strands & reassembled. Works again. Result.
January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Information post from HM Government (copied from Threads).
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Here's the front page of
Compute Weekly from May 2009 - the first time this Post Office/Fujitsu/Horizon story broke to the public. I remember reading this and being horrified...
January 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Rishi Sunak's strategic genius www.economist.com/leaders/2023...
December 15, 2023 at 5:16 PM
40 years ago, in a country far, far away (the UK), this was released. (This is my original copy, purchased at the time. It wasn’t released on CD until NOW 4, I believe. I should have bought the vinyl I know, but I couldn’t copy vinyl to cassette at the time.)
November 28, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Alain Prost
Princess Diana
Chris Tarrant
Gary Lineker
Nigella Lawson
November 26, 2023 at 6:27 PM
Nearly J-Day. Just ordered mine…
October 15, 2023 at 8:35 AM
Haven’t been on this site for a while, so I thought I’d post a picture of… BlueSky
October 8, 2023 at 1:44 PM