Welcome to my blog, where I cover tech, games and whatever else that’s interesting in the universe like vinyl, fusion jazz and side projects.
This website is inspired by the web of the late 90s - no, not just the style of the site - but also harking back to a time when people would set up websites (probably on Geocities or similar) and write about anything that interested them. Most of the websites looked terrible (my first few sites were no exception) but it was so liberating having your own site. So here’s my modern-day version of that late 90s vibe.
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I’ve never been one for ’new year’s resolutions’. But suddenly, I feel inspired.
This blog has largely been ignored for a long time. I’ve been focusing on other non-blog things and outside of keeping the lights on and things patched in my CMS, it’s been zero features delivered for a few years now.
The feature image for this blog is of a house we inspected in 2025 which we rather liked a lot. However, it was very much in need of lots of TLC as you can see from the giant cracks in the walls. But totally worth saving as it had fantatic Federation style features to restore and make good again in the very charming suburb of Summer Hill 2130. And those hand-painted patterned walls - wow. Reminded me of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and I have to say, they were equally striking and calming at the same time.
So I picked up a few old PC components - mostly Socket A era circa 2001 - and whilst I battle with various buggy motherboards from the era (probably due to bad capacitors which plauged everything at that time it seems), I’ve been thinking about the various video cards I’ve had over the years.
Mostly were for games, although there were other applications too (and long before ML with a GPU was a thing).
I’m having a bit of a nostalgia moment. So warning, rose-tinted glasses may be in use today.
Despite there being a lovely high quality version of Neon Genesis: Evangelion with a fresh (and I’m told, more accurate) dub available on Netflix, I’m going old school.
My usual readers won’t be surprised at this, for I am a fan/collector/tragic of the MiniDisc, amongst many other ye olde world tech charms like retro gaming consoles.
A little while ago I wrote about My favourite YouTube channels right now (in fact, that was almost exactly 1 year!) and more recently I’ve been getting into music a whole lot more.
Something that accelerated this process is the purchase of a much quieter piano that can be played at night, with headphones, without really disturning anyone.
It’s amazing how much more I’m able to play simply without having to worry about waking up the neighbours or causing a fuss.