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A blog, really?

Yep, I've added a blog... but not so I can cronicle day to day activities. Its here so that from time to time I can publish articles about bits of technology or technical procedures, particularly if I have spent considerable time searching the Internet to find out how to do something. I hope it will be useful at least to someone...

 

A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions - a program. Computers are versatile. In fact, they are universal information processing machines. According to the Church-Turing thesis, a computer with a certain minimum threshold capability is in principle capable of performing the tasks of any other computer, from those of a personal digital assistant to a supercomputer, as long as time and memory capacity are not considerations. Therefore, the same computer designs have been adapted for tasks from processing company payrolls to controlling unmanned spaceflights. Modern electronic computers also have enormous speed and capacity for information processing compared to earlier designs, and they have become exponentially more powerful over the years (a phenomenon known as Moore's Law).

From Wikipedia