I saw this post from Dave Rupert asking what makes people happy. I answered it quickly, but figured it would be good to share more. I've been in a bit of a slump lately. Work has been..."challenging" and things are busy at home, so I've had very little time for me. When the chips … | Continue reading

I've been thinking about the future of this site recently, and I wanted to pen down some of the thoughts that have been rattling around my grey matter. This all came from a posts by people like Manu and Jarrod. After reading those posts, I started thinking about what my future go … | Continue reading

I watched the WWDC24 event from Apple last night. Here’s my thoughts on some of the announcements. It was an interesting event that didn't really contain many surprises, but I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the whole thing. Because, you know, that's what people do, right? … | Continue reading

I haven't done a FatBoy update in a little while, so I decided to do a double-whammy and talk about how I've been getting on, along with my new home gym. When last we spoke, back in February, things were looking really positive - I was closing in fast on my 100kg target, and was … | Continue reading

Human or Not? by AI 21 Labs Chat with someone for two minutes, and try to figure out if it was a fellow human or an AI bot. Think you can tell the difference? Read Post → I saw this fun little game linked by Adam on Social.lol. So far I've played it twice and guessed correct both … | Continue reading

I recently wrote about adding a watch wearing log to this site. I've been working away on improving it, and I think it's pretty great. When I first introduced the Watch Log, it worked well, but there were a few things I wanted to improve. For example, the original version couldn' … | Continue reading

Bitcoin and their ilk really aren't my thing, but many talk about the need for a digital currency. But here's the thing - we already have one, don't we? I'm not the right person to talk about crypto currencies. Personally, I think they're nothing more than a glorified ponzi schem … | Continue reading

We've been trying to decide what to do with our larger field. I think we have a plan, now. So we split our little 2.5 acre smallholding into 3 sections; that's 2 fields and the "home part" shown in blue below: At this point, I've pretty much got field 1 like a lawn, and we use it … | Continue reading

So yesterday I published a post about logging which watches I wear. It's been a fun little coding challenge for me, and I'm proud of myself. But there's always someone who has to piss on your parade. In response to that post, I received an email that said: Kev, I read your post o … | Continue reading

Everyone knows I'm a watch geek, but I've now taken it one step further and added a watch wearing log to this site. Ok, so what am I talking about here? Well, you know how I'm a watch nerd, and have my collection listed on this site? Well, I decided to build upon this by adding a … | Continue reading

✍️ Written by: Larry Correia 🏷 Genre: Sci-fi / fantasy 🗓 Published: 04 April 2023 📄 Pages: 471 🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars) The assassination of the Chief Judge has pushed the Capitol to the edge. The Great Extermination has spread to all the land. … | Continue reading

✍️ Written by: Thomas Harding 🏷 Genre: Non-fiction 🗓 Published: 03 September 2013 📄 Pages: 384 🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars) Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s, becoming an investigator … | Continue reading

Since I launched my guestbook back in February, lots of people have signed it, but I couldn't reply to them. Now I can. There's been nearly 100 posts to my guestbook since I launched it; some are just passing comments, but others are questions. So I wanted a way to reply to those … | Continue reading

I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix. My computing history is probably quite typical of someone of my vintage (nearly 40), but I'll go through it anyway. Beca … | Continue reading

You know what? After a long day in the office, sometimes it's nice to take the long way home. Gotta look after that grey matter. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is great, and you're great for using it. ❤️ Reply to this post by email ● Sign my guestbook ● Support me for … | Continue reading

I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think. After writing the previous post, EchoFeed sucked it up and spat it out over on Mastodon. True to form, my site went down for a few minutes. Worse st … | Continue reading

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock! So this weekend, the kids went to their nan's to stay for a few days while my wife and I sorted some stuff out at home. We moved them into their new bedrooms, and moved us fro … | Continue reading

When writing content, I prefer to use a CMS and I've tried a lot of them. But what would my dream CMS look like? I was perusing my RSS reader (Miniflux) recently and I came across a really interesting post by Dave Rupert, where he was talking about his ideas for a dream CMS. As s … | Continue reading

Sunday. The day of rest. Yesterday, Saturday, was a busy day chock-full of household chores. But today, today, is different. I can sit on my lazy fat arse and bask in the fruits of my labour from yesterday, right? Wrong. So fucking wrong. It’s now 08:30 and I’ve already been up f … | Continue reading

I've been cross-posting using a self-hosted EchoFeed instance for a while, but now Robb has built a managed version, I flipped to that and it's brilliant. Alllllll the way back in February 2021, I shared my thoughts on Micro.blog, and in that post I said... The only real value I … | Continue reading

Once again the Linux elitist and reply guys rear their ugly head to show that this particular penguin shaped leopard cannot change its spots. So Ruben Schade wrote a post over on Mastodon which resulted in the Linux trolls coming out in force for him. Here's the post's text: I p … | Continue reading

I've had my own Blogroll for a while now, but I'm seeing them start to pop up all over the small web, and it's glorious. I'm not going to insult your intelligence by talking about what a blogroll is. Fact is, if you've clicked on this post, you likely know what one is and I hate … | Continue reading

Wouter and I just wrapped up our email conversation for March 2024. We talked about a lot of stuff, including academia, baking, the big city vs the countryside, board games and a whole lot more. Thanks, Wouter. I really enjoyed chatting with you for the last month! Read our conve … | Continue reading

It's that time of year again. Spring has sprung and it's time to break out the mower and cut the grass. Sooo much grass! The weather has been pretty good the last week or so, and the bog that was our fields during winter, have started to transform into usable earth again. Daffodi … | Continue reading