Experimenting with Pure Blog
Well, here's something I didn't expect to be doing. But, I've been keeping an eye on Pure Blog. And, quite frankly, it looks to be more than enough for what I need. I haven't imported any of my older,...
Bazzite Installed & Games Working
One of the jobs to be done during my time off was to get Windows 11 off the laptop, and install Bazzite. Well, I decided today was going to be that day. After a long run that started late (because I d...
Midori 1 Day per Page Notebook
I caved and purchased an MD Notebook Journal Codex 1 Day 1 Page for using during 2026 as my journal refill of choice. It is a beautiful notebook. And I'm really looking forward to getting started with...
An Afternoon with DCC Decoders
I have just spent the majority of my afternoon putting in Rails DCC Decoder chips, and attempting to program them. How can something be so simple, and so complex, all at the same time? Anyway, managed...
Final Working Day of 2025
That's it. Barring any serious emergencies or disasters, my 2025 is done when it comes to work. I'm a free man until Monday, 5th January 2026. It feels good. If you'd have told me in January of this y...
Hetzner Storage Share
I've been looking at possible solutions for alternatives to things such as Dropbox and iCloud for my general files, and for keeping another copy of things. To be honest, most of it is currently in iCl...
The Difference in Public Transport Infrastructure
The random video for this morning was about the comparison of public transport between Japan, and Texas. We all know that Japan wins. What was interesting, was how busy Shinjuku station actually is. S...
Using mkpasswd on macOS (via Docker)
I had a random need to use today while on macOS. Which, of course, isn't available. Thanks to an answer on Stack Exchange for a question that was asked over 9 years ago, I had a solution. Docker was a...
A Surprise Video from Veitch
I was not expecting to see this in my feeds, and it was a very welcome surprise. This man always manages to bring a smile to my face. I was intrigued by this bit of news, where Schleswig-Holstein's Li...
Purchasing Journal Refills
The journal refills I've been using for the last year no longer seem to be available. I think I've just spent over an hour trying to find something suitable to replace them. Unfortunately, I think it...
Pushing Towards More Handwritten Notes
After handwriting a journal now for more than 700 consecutive days, I've really come to appreciate how spending that time slowing down has helped me. And I've been trying to make more notes in noteboo...
Expanding the Use of Kate to Potentially Replace Ulysses
Today I received a reminder that Ulysses was going to renew in January. I believe that's another £39 a year I can save. First question, then, how can I achieve a preview in Kate for Markdown documents...
A Photo for Each Day in the Journal
I've been toying with the idea of having a photo of something each day in my handwritten journal. And I wasn't really sure how best to do it. And then, the other day, the Kodak P300R appeared. KODAK M...
Christmas is Rapidly Approaching
I am not even remotely ready this year. I hadn't even started picking up the few things I'd intended to get until today. Thankfully, I haven't exactly got much to get. But wow, I am so over Christmas....
Monitoring Performance Metrics for Employees
Something came up today regarding the topic of monitoring employee performance. An example was the average first response time to a support request. Now, I absolutely understand why you'd want to moni...
Looking at Past Content - Firefox & uniFLOW
I often find it interesting looking back at my previous posts to see what people are still reading. It's more surprising than anything. By far, the most read one week on week is Firefox 141.0 Release...
Discovering Mastodon Profiles with Browser Extensions
While I was reading my feeds this evening, this post popped up from Robert Alexander on his blog alexsci.com. The post is titled “Discovering the indieweb with calm tech”. In it, he mentions an intere...
More Time with Actual Budget and 700 Days of a Written Journal
Most of my spare time this morning was spent working on getting things more aligned within Actual Budget. I think I've got some very basic initial steps done. Next, I need to start reading more about...
What if knights rode dinosaurs?
What a week. It hasn't been bad, but wow, it was relentless! I cannot wait for a bit of downtime. It's been raining heavily all day today, so I didn't get to go out for my usual lunchtime walk. Instea...
Star Citizen: Squadron 42
I was speaking with a friend earlier today about games that have taken a long time to arrive. He'd just received a copy of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. I've never played a single Metroid game. That should...