One of the hardest parts of my job is to let my customer know that their hard disk has failed and all of their precious data and particularly photographs have all gone. In some cases, it might be possible to salvage data from a failing drive, but this often comes at a very steep price. So what can you do to avoid this situation happening… Read More »Backup Options
We might get bogged down with what the price of gold in the short term but what we need to understand it that gold has acted as a store of value or wealth for millennia. Fiat currency, paper money or what we use as money today as always returns to its intrinsic value: zero as Voltaire once said. Even though the world’s monetary system was… Read More »Essence of Gold
There is no doubt that we live in turbulent times. But, despite all the seriousness, we need to remind ourselves to let go now and again. Newt Scamander from the fictional world of Fantastic Beasts by J.K Rowling had a wonderful philosophy, “Worrying means you suffer twice”. Worrying is, unfortunately, a part of life. The fight or flight instinct has been around since we were… Read More »Taking Life Too Seriously
When is a Camera not a Camera? Well, when it’s a phone of course. Hello everyone, thanks first of all for taking the time to read my first article here in Tyne Valley Express. (Always assuming you continue to read … ha ha) You may or may not have noticed, that I’ve been providing the images for the covers on TVE for almost a year now.… Read More »Cameras
