Lawsie.com is Andrew Laws’s 26-year archive of tech fixes, practical guides, and personal observations. If you’ve got a problem to solve, there’s a good chance something in here will help.
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Is 3D Cinema Back from the Dead? My Terminator 2 Remaster Experience
One of the things that finally convinced me to get a Cineworld season pass was their growing knack for showing older films. Usually, I am perfectly happy going to the cinema just to see a classic I’ve seen a dozen times, or catching it in a different format—like when we saw Kiki’s Delivery Service a…
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Tony by Matt Johnson, Movie Review, Ipswich Cineworld
Reflecting on ‘Tony’: A Fresh Take on the Anthony Bourdain Biopic My son and I (along with myself, I have to admit) are big fans of director Matt Johnson. We were determined to see his new biopic, ‘Tony’, regardless of the buzz. We were just grateful it played locally at the Cineworld in Ipswich, as…
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Kiki’s Delivery Service IMAX review
When I first heard that ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ was getting an IMAX re-release, I was a bit confused. I love Studio Ghibli, but I was not sure if the IMAX experience was really what the film needed. Usually, IMAX is an assault on the senses. You end up leaving the cinema feeling a bit dazed…
The Sail Loft in Southwold menu and key info for visitors
The Sail Loft in Southwold has been open for a number of years now. It was popular right from day one, partly because it replaced a place called Casa De Mia, which was not the best experience for holidaymakers or locals. When it first opened, The Sail Loft’s menu seemed very London-based – the sort…
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Battery Benefits for home owners
Energy costs are hitting us hard right now, especially at home. Because of this, we are about to see a massive shift in how we manage domestic energy. To be more precise, it is really about how we store it. I have recently set up a new website for a friend who specialises in installing…
What I’m learning rebuilding WebCaretakers as a calculator project
Reviving a Digital Relic I registered the domain name WebCaretakers.com over 25 years ago. It was the name of my first company, but I haven’t used it for a long time – until now. I have finally decided to do something productive with it. I often find myself using the same calculator functions on various…
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Visiting RSPB Minsmere: A Walk Down Memory Lane
Springtime Splendour: A Return to RSPB Minsmere My wife and I visited RSPB Minsmere today, a place that has always loomed large in my mind. I grew up nearby in the village of Wickham Market, so this felt like a homecoming of sorts. For this trip, we stayed in a wonderful shepherd’s hut at Fen…
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Phine
Formed: 1997 Origin: Ipswich, Suffolk Phine was an Ipswich-based band formed in 1997. Line-up Darren Jones: Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals Alun Llewellyn: Bass Pip Duffy: Vocals Paul O’Connor: Rhythm & Lead Guitar Sam Osborne: Drums (Note: Based on the photo provided by the band, the line-up is listed from left to right). Recording History…
The Ghost of Youth Clubs Past: Remembering the Nicholians of Ipswich
Do you remember the Nicholians Youth Club?¹ For many who grew up in the Old Stoke area of Ipswich, this name will conjure a flood of memories. Tucked away on Station Street, it was more than just a building; it was a hub of youthful energy, a place where friendships were forged and memories were…
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Jack’s Window Cleaning in Ipswich
I’ve just built a one-page website for my friend Jack Fawthropp. He’s been my next-door neighbour for years, and he’s a top chap. Jack recently started a window cleaning business in Ipswich, Suffolk and asked me for some digital marketing advice. Jack’s new window cleaning business is called Gem Shine Windows. The strategy is really…
Veloballs
Veloballs is a cycling site that I ran for several years. It’s not updated as often as it used to be but still contains a lot of decent information and interesting articles about cycling, bike gear and some other odd stuff.
Go to the VeloBalls section
Andrew Culture
This section of the lawsie website contains information about, and links to, all the creative activities I get up to, including my musical projects, bands I’m in (and have played with in the past) and my creative writing.
Go to the Andrew Culture section
So what’s all this about then?
There are loads of other sections that act as an archive of older bits and bobs I’ve created, have a look at the footer of the site for links to those sections.
A more detailed introduction to lawsie.com
The lawsie website was originally born as lawsie.co.uk sometime around 1998 (I think). It started life as a portal and search engine. But then some lads in California invented something called Google and I figured they did a better job of it than I did, so I sat back and let the site rot for a bit.
Eventually, blogging became something that anyone could do without having first to build their own CMS, so I started up lawsie.com as a blog. It lived on blogger.com until February 2023, when I migrated to WordPress.
I have been building websites for fun and profit since 1998, and in that time many websites have come and gone. The Lawsie website exists as a long-term record of the stuff that I have done over the years. This means that some of the content on this site is badly written and may well state an opinion that I haven’t held for decades.
What do the categories in the footer mean?
At the time I transferred the content from Blogger to the site as you see it now there were nearly 500 posts, and none of them were categorised. So assigning categories was a helluva task, so I made it as simple as possible. Most posts are in the ‘observations’ category, partly because they don’t fit in any other category, but also because we all live through observations, so it’s a good catch-all category.
With that out of the way, crack on, and have a rummage.