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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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.
There’s something a little bit magical about being in the office.
I didn’t think I would say that, but I think all of this time during the pandemic working from home has made me really appreciate being in the office.
I’m writing this post right now, from the office. I came in today to farewell one of my staff (sniff… it’s always a happy/sad time) and collect their equipment and security pass. So this is feeling fresh, right off the top of my head.
Lately I’ve been reading Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony which is the autobiography of Akio Morita, co-founder and former chairman of Sony Corporation. It was originally written in Japanese of course, but I’m reading the English version 😊. What attracted me to this book was Morita’s famous quote about the Sony Walkman:
“Nobody openly laughed at me… Everybody gave me a hard time. It seemed as though nobody liked the idea… I do not believe that any amount of market research could have told us that the Sony Walkman would be successul.”
Lately I’ve been looking into NAS (Network Attached Storage) for home so that I can access my files from any computer at home. I guess moving everything to “the cloud” would be an option but could get costly depending on how much data I want to shift and with the crippled Australian internet with really poor upload speeds (my top tier ‘best available’ connection caps out at 40mbps upload), maybe having a few files on a local store would be more practical.