The life and times of a software and web developer
While tidying the study this evening, I looked at the games console and flat-screen television that have been taking up the desk in the corner, and that haven’t so much as been powered up for the last several weeks, and decided to do something rather drastic. After several trips to the attic - precariously climbing …
I sat down at the desk in the junk room to write a blog post an hour ago. All I have done so far is listen to music on Spotify. Music from my distant past. While writing this, Wilson Phillips are singing "Hold On", and I'm remembering drawing a picture of them in the back of my college art sketchbook.
For no particular reason at all, I'm writing this post in a text editor within an Amiga emulator on the Raspberry Pi. Let me explain that a bit further - a very small circuit board sitting on top of the PC under the desk is running Linux, which is then running an emulator - simulating …
It's just gone 10pm on Sunday evening, and I'm in my usual bolt-hole - hiding out in the junk room, listening to music, and emptying my head into the keyboard while the younger children sleep, and my other half watches TV shows in the lounge. Miss 17 is chatting with friends on her phone in …
It is now a week since the Nokia 3310 arrived, and I performed a factory reset on my previous phone (a rather lovely Honor 8 that now resides in my other half's handbag). I thought it might be interesting to record a few thoughts about my experiences so far.Perhaps the biggest surprise is that I …
After escorting Miss 17 to a famous fashion retail establishment this afternoon, I left her to peruse their wares and crossed the road to see what the second hand video game store might have on display. I wasn't planning on buying anything - I just wanted to look.My plans began to fall apart then I …
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While my other half was standing at the side of a rugby pitch in the middle of nowhere this afternoon I took it upon myself to tidy up the junk room at home.There are a number of drawer units in the junk room - one of which has slowly filled itself with wires, chargers, plugs, …
This evening I erased the hard hard-drive on the old netbook computer that's been kicking around the house for the last few years, and gave it to my other half to donate to charity. She works at a school, and a charity regularly visits to take hardware away with them for various projects.I bought the …
It's a bank holiday in the UK today. You'll be pleased to learn that I have achieved nothing at all, all day so far. At the time of writing it's just past 2pm in the afternoon, and all we have done is sit around. My other half and the younger kids are watching Harry Potter …
I have a confession to make. I never played "Dungeons and Dragons" when I was younger. Meeting me as an adult, you might suspect otherwise - I own or have owned nearly every video game system back to about 1984, own a growing collection of comic books and graphic novels, and have always found complicated …
