Interesting Links This Week - 2025 W26
Let's see if I can get into the habit of making this a regular thing, shall we? Here are a few things that have caught my attention this week. Yes, my smart home is spying on me — and I don’t really c...
Interesting Links This Week
Well, for the last couple of weeks if I'm honest because I'm bloody useless at finishing writing the posts and getting them out there. My Drafts section has well over 50 "in progress" items. This is b...
A New Book - Stellar: A World Beyond Limits
I can't really remember how this book came to my attention, but somehow, my brain managed to lure me in to buying it. About the book: Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of ho...
Chilling with the Squirrels
Spent the afternoon in the garden in the sun, replying to emails and doing all the boring admin/paperwork stuff. Had the company of two squirrels running around the tree next to me. Took them an hour...
Cancelling my DAZN NFL Game Pass Subscription
I've been a subscriber to the NFL Game Pass for a little over 8 years now. As a fan of the Atlanta Falcons, it's been a rough ride. During that time, the price of the annual subscription fee has fluct...
Shogun by James Clavell
After what seems like a long time, all the 1125 pages have been turned. Reading Shogun really was an epic undertaking, and possibly the longest book I have read to date. Or perhaps it's a tie with Lor...
Japan Post Digital Address System
This popped up in my feeds a few days ago, and I thought it was fascinating. Japan Post launches ‘digital address’ system \ Under the system, users can input seven-digit codes on online shopping websi...
Mozilla is Shutting Down Pocket
Pocket seemed to be a bit like Marmite for some people. They either loved it, or hated it. Some true hatred Mozilla got for bundling it into the browser was a bit much if you ask me. But here we are....
It's Always DNS - How Deleting the Final Linode Broke Everything
I'm going to start this by saying that this is my fault for not reading the documentation. However, I'm sure this never used to be the default functionality before Linode got swallowed by Akamai. A li...
Rediscovering my Creative Side
Every day, the news around technology just gets worse. I'd avoid it entirely if I could, but I can't. Working in the industry means having to have some idea about what's happening. And I can't say I l...
Yet Another Cow Related Post with Added Harmonica
Because why not. They're wonderful. Today's walk required two stops. The first on the way up the hill to say hello. And, then they bumbled across the field when they spotted me coming back down. They...
Quick Note: New Friends Enjoying the Sun
Checking in on the cow beasties that said hello yesterday. They were happily settled in the middle of the field, enjoying the sun today. The black one did turn to face me a little more, and the brown...
Quick Note: Repurposing my Old Planet-X TT Bike
Every time I look at the Red Devil hanging on the wall, I feel a deep sense of guilt that I no longer ride her. And haven't for a few years now. But, I don't think it's likely I'll be returning to tri...
Quick Note: New Friends on a Morning Walk
As I was walking up the hill this morning, these little monsters were over the other side of the field, enjoying a morning plod. On my return back down the hill, a couple of them were at the fence. On...
Quick note: CrucialTracks - Bringing back Memories with Music
Discovered this post randomly which resulted in me listening to some songs I haven’t heard in a while. Post by @gray@fosstodon.org \ View on Mastodon CrucualTracks seems like a pretty cool idea, altho...
Returning to my Blog
If you look at the date on some of my previous posts, you'll soon realise that it has been a really, really long time since I've written a post. There are numerous reasons for this - mostly laziness....
Packaging & Deploying FortiClient EMS with Jamf
If you've read my previous post on FortiClient, you'll already be aware that I'm a great fan of their top-tier methods for deploying this particular application … Well, it was only a matter of time be...
Packaging & Deploying uniFLOW SmartClient for macOS
When it comes to installing applications for end users at scale, especially for those on macOS, not every developer plays the game. The combination of packaging/zipping/goodness knows what is vast. un...
Fully Automated Lab iMac Deployment with Jamf Pro & ADE: Part 6 - Post Series Summary
Introduction Firstly, apologies. I didn't manage to get this post out on Thursday as I had planned. A few things got in the way. I began writing, but didn't finish. Well, I can't believe we've finally...
Fully Automated Lab iMac Deployment with Jamf Pro & ADE: Part 5 - User Ready
Intro Wow, I can't believe we're here. The final stage of this workflow. All that's left to do is make the device ready for the user. What a journey! If you've made it this far, congratulations. Readi...