Blogs Posts by Nick McHardy
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.
Not sure where to start? Here are some blogs to get you started:
There’s also a 🍊 Garden Diary to check out. It’s sometimes updated as the seasons change.
Latest Posts
📅 Posted 2014-09-17
(3 minute read)
For a long time, I’ve used a quick notation for jotting down songs with minimal of effort but also with conveying the general idea and feel of the song.
I have no name for the notation, nor do I claim to have invented it since it was pretty much borne out of the PLAY command in QBasic (more on QBasic in a future article that I have half-written - it’s going to be gold).
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📅 Posted 2014-08-23
(4 minute read)
Well it’s been a little while since I’ve posted here, mainly because I have so many projects on the go at once. More to be revealed later, of course.
But for this blog I would like to talk about a not so new project of mine, namely Hawkesbury History, People & Places or more easily just “www.hawkesbury.org”.
What is it?
Hawkesbury People and Places is an ongoing project which collects & locates places, buildings, organisations and people of the Hawkesbury Region.
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📅 Posted 2014-07-31
(11 minute read)
This has always intrigued me. Pnau released their Sambanova album then only after gaining popularity it gets pulled from stores because it contains uncleared and uncredited samples. It is then re-released under a new label, this time with Warner Music. I am lucky enough to have both copies here in front of me and despite having different cover art and a slightly different track listing, it begs the question: Original Pressing Peking Duck vs Warner Music, just what is the difference?
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📅 Posted 2014-07-27
(3 minute read)
So Real Estate uses a lot of terms to describe property. Surely there is some fact and some fiction behind all of these terms? I figured it was about time someone decided to decrypt the mysterious language of Real Estate.
Tried selling a house before? Been told your place is “quaint” (basically, tiny) or “open plan” (impossible to heat)? Or perhaps “bay-side” (the bay is down the road, turn left, turn left again, keep driving for another 2 kilometres, yep, there you go)? You may find some of these terms strangely familiar…
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📅 Posted 2014-07-26
(2 minute read)
Well today was an interesting day. When Boyter, Greg & myself went out for lunch today, everything seemed normal… until Greg decided to buy some hot chips for lunch. He tries to pay for the chips with a $10 note and they don’t accept it. Weird we thought, so I had to lend him $3 in coins hoping they would accept that. Turns out the $10 note was fake!
Now I always thought the Aussie dollar was pretty hard to copy, and I suppose it is, but this proves it’s seriously possible. The fake note was picked up by Greg at a train station as change for buying a train ticket and it appears it was discovered due to the bleeding of the ink through the note (the “10” from the reverse side is clearly visible when it shouldn’t be) as well as the dark ink falling off the note in places you wouldn’t expect - ie where people don’t usually fold the money).
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