Steam Machine Pricing Noise
There's a lot of noise out there about what price the Steam Machine will be, and that they have mentioned it will be closer to PC pricing. One such article is from Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/articl...
Do I need an MP3 Player?
The obvious answer to that question is no. Of course, I don't need one. But that's not what this video made me think. I'm not going to lie, dear reader, I've been fighting some serious temptation to g...
The Beginning of the End of 2025 & Mythic Magazine #60
It's difficult to believe that it's already December 2025. This year has been filled with change, challenges, and opportunities. And who knows what else it has left in store for us before 2026 rolls a...
AI Driving Records in Black Friday Spending
This story from Reuters popped up in my feeds this morning: US Consumers Spent $11.8 Billion. That is a terrifying number. However, when broken down, it was only coming to around $45 per person based...
A Full Week of Kate
I spent the entire week using Kate for work, rather than the usual Sublime, and the occasional tickle of VS Code. Overall, I have to say it has been, refreshing. I haven't needed or wanted to open eit...
Another Week Done
Hello, Friday. I've been looking forward to seeing you. This weekend has absolutely nothing planned. No calls, no house viewings, no commitments at all. And I am so grateful. Once my run is done tomor...
Orion Browser Thoughts
After the recent news of Orion reaching 1.0 on macOS in my previous post Ghost Improvements, Magic Pages & Orion, I decided to install it again and see how it held up with my daily workflow. In sh...
Ghost Improvements, Magic Pages & Orion
After what, I felt, was a bit of a stale patch with Ghost a couple of years ago, they really seem to be going from strength to strength right now. With their features around federation, and now their...
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
With breakfast this morning, I was watching a random video of the above named film (which I need to watch). What surprised me was who I saw in it. Especially as we're watching through NCIS. It took me...
Latest Batch of LAMY T10 Ink
When I started journalling again, I treated myself to a LAMY Safari fountain pen. As a left-hander, I wasn't entirely sure this was a great idea, but I wanted to try. And, they had left-handed nibs. S...
Convenience and on-demand Stimulation
Today, I had so many things that I wanted to do with my time. This is a curse of having far too many hobbies and interests, I suppose. But despite wanting to do certain things, such as read, or paint,...
An Evening to Myself
Once a month, I get an afternoon and evening to myself. I generally end up playing games for most of it, and that's precisely what I've done for the afternoon. I continued to play Assassin's Creed Ody...
From Sublime to Kate & Other Things
Today, I decided it was finally time to change my primary text editor from Sublime to Kate. No particular reason, apart from wanting to shift back to using more open-source tools in my day-to-day life...
A Frosty Run & Fun Podcast
This morning's run was bloody cold. I think it was around -2 Celsius. When it drops below 0, that's when the Runderwear and Skins come out to play. It's been so long, I'd forgotten how hard it can be...
Guild Wars Reforged gets Steamy
That's a terrible title, but I couldn't think of what else to write. How many of you out there played the original Guild Wars? Because I played the living snot out of it. Now it's getting some visual...
OpenBenches & Gaugemaster DCC Controllers
Firstly, let's begin with “What a day”. Like everyone else, Cloudflare outages for today made life much more difficult than it needed to be. I'm not going to get into my feelings on sticking everythin...
A Second House Viewing & Planning Permission
The house viewing at the weekend went well, and I quite liked the place. It's not perfect, but I don't think I'd ever get everything I wanted. So, we've arranged a second viewing for the weekend, and...
Open-Source Finance Tools
I woke up early this morning, so had a little time to myself. I decided that looking in to open-source personal finance tools would be a productive use of that time. Why? Who knows? The strongest cand...
Monitoring, Log Analysis & Alerting Tools
I used to enjoy monitoring and alerting thoroughly during my time on a systems team. Making use of Nagios, Icinga, Graylog, and implementing UNINETTNAV. In fact, I think NAV was, by far, one of my fav...
The Weekend Arrives
Friday, finally. Although it hasn't been a bad week, overall. But it's always a pleasure to see the end arrive. Where work moves aside, and a bit of time for my hobbies takes the spotlight. Hopefully....