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Nov 17, 2023: Super Mario RPG is an excellent remake! Now can we please have the Earthbound trilogy in this style! 🎮
Nov 14, 2023: If this didn’t have an upload date of 2010, i could be convinced that someone asked an AI to generate new console ideas! 🎮 Still waiting on my PsWi60. …
Nov 4, 2023: Looking forward to playing The Witcher: Old World board game soon! 🎲
Nov 2, 2023: Some quick thoughts on the CRKD NitroDeck for Switch After a few weeks with the NitroDeck switch grip… 🎮 it’s still feeling very comfortable, I don’t find the right stick awkward at all. The rumble motor …
Oct 28, 2023: Saw a badger run past our house whilst watching the lunar eclipse! What a wild Saturday evening. 🌓🦡
Oct 23, 2023: This is going on the watchlist for next year, for sure. All the Fallout games are currently discounted on Xbox too. ☢️ youtu.be/JbFMuQeHx…
Oct 23, 2023: How to use Shortcuts, and Focus Modes to help with procrastination Using shortcuts on iPad and iPhone, you can deny yourself access to apps based on your current focus mode. I’m using this to cut down on Discord, …
Oct 22, 2023: What the heck has Discord done to their mobile app? The latest update is atrocious
Oct 8, 2023: 🎵 Current Obsession - Oceana by Maleav
Oct 8, 2023: 🎮 Finished Playing: Dragon Quest IX (Not the postgame content!) Resumed playing: Snowrunner Started Playing: Wargroove
Oct 8, 2023: HomeAssistant - Turning off the lights when nobody is home Some notes on Home Assistant groups - ‘people’ groups are apparently now ‘old style groups’ and are legacy, so here is how i …
Sep 17, 2023: Beat the Elite Four in Soul Silver earlier, so jumping into another game before going back to finish the second half and beat Red! I remember buying …
Sep 10, 2023: I’ve been successfully cutting down on caffeine this week - about half so far, the goal over the next few weeks is to fully decaf. I’ve been sleeping …
Sep 3, 2023: For anyone wondering about #Starfield bugs.. well, it just played two cutscenes at the same time… classic bethesda is back! Haven’t been stuck in a …
Sep 1, 2023: This seems fun! 🎮 #Starfield #NoSpoilers
Aug 28, 2023: Went for a stroll along the canals in Birmingham today. I should really get out more, there’s so much to explore 📷
Aug 27, 2023: I apparently have 700 videos on my watch list on YouTube. I should probably start watching those at some point.
Aug 20, 2023: Finally made the jump from Spotify Family to YouTube Premium Family. Mostly because Spotify seems to have quietly removed Last.fm support, but also …
Aug 10, 2023: Is there a board game community on Microblog?
Jul 27, 2023: Snowrunner gaining cross-save capability is the news I didn’t know I wanted! Whilst Snowrunner runs absolutely fine on Switch, and this is …
Jul 26, 2023: Started playing AOE2 again last night - lost two hours in the blink of an eye! Don’t think I am ready for multiplayer anytime soon though 🎮
Jul 24, 2023: Playing some Bullet Bill only Mario Kart on Twitch right now, www.twitch.tv/geekyjame… 🎮
Jul 22, 2023: The new usb camera support in iPadOS 17 beta is neat - I am testing it using an iPad Mini and a cheap usb capture card 🎮 …
Jul 17, 2023: Switched to #Octopus Tracker today from #Agile. Whilst the plunge pricing was fun, we could never shift our cooking from the 4-7pm peak so all the …
Jul 17, 2023: Aqara vs Sonoff Zigbee Sensors The Aqara temperature sensors for #homeassistant report about 0.2°C higher than the Sonoff units they replace. I’ll probably want to calibrate …
Jul 16, 2023: 📷 Sometimes you time it just right #sunsets #westmidlands
Jul 16, 2023: Bought some Aqara temperature sensors from Aliexpress for #HomeAssistant - they’re smaller, don’t use the stupid CR2450 battery, and they …
Jul 16, 2023: New Blog Sunday New blog Sunday! After losing access to Foresty CMS, I fell out of love with Jekyll. Whilst I love that it cost me £0, it was a nightmare to actually …
Dec 28, 2022: 2023 Looking forward to 2023, these are the key habits I want to instill in my day to day life: Listening to more audio content (audio books, podcasts, …
Dec 28, 2022: Samsung TV - Hospitality Mode Yet another post in my series of ‘if I don’t document it, I will forget how to do this again in 2 years time! To access the Hospitality …
Aug 21, 2022: Home Assistant - Rising/Falling Temperature Indicator Another post in my series of ‘if I don’t document it, I will forget how to do this again in 2 years time! I recently wanted a visual …
Apr 1, 2022: Logging into Youtube in Firefox Multiaccount Containers Multi account containers in Firefox are fantastic. They let you separate your browsing into individual silos which means Google can’t get track …
Mar 31, 2022: Monitor/Listen to Capture Card input on linux In Windows, this was really easy. You would just tick ‘Listen to this device’ in device properties , you’d be away and listening to …
Jan 29, 2022: RSS feeds in 2022 I’ve always loved RSS feeds. From back in the early days when podcasting was the new cool thing to the halycon days of Google Reader right up to …
Jan 1, 2022: Access the old Sound control panel on Windows 11 This will give you access to the older sound control panel screens. I needed this as I was trying to access the ‘Listen’ mode on a capture …
Jan 1, 2022: '"This is above your Restrictions" Error on PC Gamepass' This is above [GamerTag]’s Restrictions Error. This started occuring to me after I’d uploaded to Windows 11. I was unable to download …
Dec 29, 2021: State of the Apps for 2021 Few things have changed over the last 12 months since I wrote the last version of this post. I’ve managed to continue using Firefox for both …
Nov 13, 2021: How to make Discord actually display your Xbox Live status I’ve been unable to make the Discord / Xbox Live integration work since I got my Xbox earlier in the year. I tried unlinking, re-linking, and …
Jan 2, 2021: The things I use every day in 2020 - Apps & Services Firefox In the last year, I moved my personal stuff away from Gmail and Google Calendar (see Fastmail below) so it felt fitting to try a life without …
Jan 1, 2021: 2020 Wrap Up 2020 has been a strange year. Here is how I spent some of it: Games I played 66 games for longer than half an hour in 2020 and played at least a few …
Sep 5, 2020: Todoman Reminder Sync for Fastmail How to configure calendar sync on Linux (tested on Ubuntu 20.04) for Fastmail using vdirsync and todoman. This lets me use the same todo list between …
Sep 4, 2020: Level 11 - Games I Played in August 2020 Super Nintendo Online - Yoshi’s Island - 10h35m {:class=“img-fluid” :alt=“Yoshi’s Island”} I set out to complete …
Aug 30, 2020: Writing a py3bar module to display MQTT temperature data I recently started using the i3 Window manager and have swapped the bar from the standard bar to py3bar as it is easily extendible using python …
Aug 30, 2020: Sync Joplin with Fastmail Files How to setup Joplin Synchronisation using Fastmail Files (WebDAV) Synchronisation target: WebDAV Webdav URL: myfiles.fastmail.com{directory in …
Aug 22, 2020: Moving to Linux I decided to move my main PC at home to Linux last weekend and have been pretty pleasantly surprised at how far desktop Linux has moved on since I …
Jul 6, 2020: Level 9 - Games I Played in June 2020 Lv 9 - June 2020 / Games played in June 2020 / 32h45m 51 Worldwide Games - 8h35m Everybody’s Golf - 6h38m Prison Architect - 4h21m Train …
May 15, 2020: Setup a VPN using Zerotier and a Raspberry Pi This post aims to document a project that I setup and use every day. It is primarily to help me in the future when I want to set it up again! I hope …
May 11, 2020: Level 8 - Switch Online & Tactical Fantasies This week the outline for this post was built by my InfluxDB powered twitter bot and automatically saved into Notion! Handy. Final Fantasy Tactics A2 …
May 2, 2020: Level 7 - April 2020 Gaming The world is in a weird place right now. We’re mostly confined to our homes, and spend pretty much all of our time at home. Well, that’s …
Apr 12, 2020: InfluxDB to Exist.io - Logging Gaming Time Getting as much data into Exist as I can is important to me. So far this year I’ve built integrations for… Gaming Time Pages Read (via …
Jan 15, 2020: Logging pages read to Exist.io via Shortcuts I was messing around with the Exist.IO API over the weekend to see what I could build. I noticed that there was a ‘Pages read’ attribute …
Jan 15, 2020: Python 3 SimpleHTTPServer In Python3, use python3 -m http.server to get the same thing as SimpleHTTPServer in Python 2.x.
Jan 4, 2020: Level 6 - A little Switch... The second half of 2019 was filled with far too much work! I didn’t really get a lot of time to play my games, but here are my top 3 games per …
Jul 7, 2019: Level 5 - What I've been Playing in 2019 I really need to try and complete this post a bit more often! Top Three Games Every Month So far in 2019 (by time played) I won’t say how long I …
Jun 13, 2019: Essential road-warrior travel technology for geeks I have spent a lot of time travelling for work during the first half of 2019, and am starting to perfect the perfect grab bag of technology to make my …
Mar 16, 2019: Tracking planes from your laptop (ADS-B) My local hackspace recently acquired SDR dongle for us to use, and since I’ve been wanting to have a play around with Software Defined Radios I …
Jan 13, 2019: Bootstrap 4 - New Blog Theme I decided last week that I really wanted a card based theme for my blog. After all, cards are cool. After spending a few hours messing around with …
Dec 29, 2018: 2019 Goals Here are my goals for 2019. Most of these involve self improvement of some sort, and crucially don’t involve simply cutting things out, or a …
Oct 6, 2018: Migrating Pelican blog posts to Jekyll Pelican and Jekyll both use markdown formatting for their posts, but their post metadata (front matter in Jekyll parlance) formatting is slightly …
Sep 22, 2018: My new Jekyll powered blog I knew I had to move away from Wordpress.com at some point, but it was too convenent to bother making the switch. The annual renewal was coming around …
Sep 12, 2018: An update to how I use Exist.io (Android Edition) Twelve months ago I wrote a blog post that explained how I used Exist.io with all the various services and hardware that I owned. That was iPhone …
Sep 3, 2018: Swim not gym! I tried the gym. I hate the gym. I keep trying, but it’s always awful! This time, I joined the local leisure centre. This is better. The pool brings …
Jun 9, 2018: Drive Time Feb-May February: 23:35:12 March: 31:56:43 April 36:19:23 May: 30:43:43 {:class=“img-fluid”}
Feb 12, 2018: Time Tracking with Tasker (Driving & Sleep Time) I listen to the podcast Cortex when I’m driving, and they got me interesting in looking up time tracking and how maybe this would benefit me. I …
Feb 3, 2018: Level 2 - What I've been playing It’s been a while since my last blog post… I’ve been busy with work, the gym… and… playing lots of games! …
Aug 15, 2017: Removing Duplicate Scrobbles on Last.fm So, my last.fm account/spotify went mental last week and logged a single song 1000 times in a row. Since Last.fm is currently in the throes of dying …
Aug 5, 2017: Life Tracking with Exist I’ve built up quite a collection of health and fitness apps over the last few years. MyFitnessPal (MFP) tracks my eating habits, Withings tracks …
Jun 17, 2017: What I've Been Playing - Level 0 I haven’t really gotten into anything much recently. Instead, I tried to play everything at the same time, and got bored of it all before too …
Feb 12, 2017: Executive Order Ban the Beer - First Month Goals Update Over a month has passed since my last post, and in that time I have been (slowly) working towards those goals I mentioned. I didn’t go to the …
Dec 26, 2016: A little behind on the blogs! So I’ve been a lazy blogger recently. I should fix that. Probably London/Leeds Trip Berlin Christmas 2016 (Ok, not so lazy I write this at a …
Nov 13, 2016: Dragon Quest VII is too long, but that's OK I really want to love Dragon Quest VII, but I don’t have the time right now to do it justice and it upsets me. I’ve finished Dragon Quest …
Jul 24, 2016: Raspberry Pi Spotify Jukebox Goal: To create a simple to use office based music jukebox that everyone can use and no-one can take overall control of. It needs to be clear, simple, …
Mar 20, 2016: Scotland Trip - Glasgow to Fort William via John o' Groats - Part 1/2 We arrived at Glasgow on Saturday morning, the flight was fine (the breakfast not…) and headed into Glasgow city to get our train onwards. We …
Mar 18, 2016: Scotland Trip - Fort William to Edinburgh via Mallaig - Part 2/2 We left on the West Highland line for a short two hour run to Mallaig, this line has apparently been voted one of the most scenic railway journeys in …
Nov 9, 2014: Fantasy Life Item Duplication There is a simple way to duplicate any item that is stackable by using the streetpass functionality built into Fantasy Life for Nintendo 3DS. …
Nov 7, 2014: Disabling SSLv3 in Lighttpd To disable SSLv3 in Lighttpd to mitigate the Poodle attack, add the following to your lighttpd.conf file. ssl.use-sslv2 = "disable" …
Aug 30, 2014: Finished - Legend of Zelda - Four Swords Anniversary Edition for Nintendo 3DS I finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition for Nintendo 3DS this week. I’ve been trying to play it at my local …
Apr 15, 2014: Betws-Y-Coed Miniature Railway Trip At Betws-Y-Coed station, there is a railway museum and miniature railway. The museum entry fee was £1.50, and so were tickets on the miniature …
Apr 9, 2014: Completing the backlog Fun! Fun! Minigolf! Touch! This week I completed (unlocked everything I could) Fun! Fun! Minigolf Touch! for the 3DS. I bought it back in 2012 from the eShop because mini golf …
Apr 4, 2014: GoAccess - An Awstats Alternative I didn’t really want to bother with installing AWStats and setting up the cgi stuff that goes with it, as well as setting the web server to …
Oct 14, 2013: Busy busy busy! So, I managed to avoid blogging at all in September (and half of October!). It’s been fairly hectic recently, work filled up my spare time in …
Aug 16, 2013: Clearing my gaming backlog! Let's do this... I buy far too many games. It’s pretty obvious what the problem is. I don’t play them enough, then I get bored and buy more. It’s …
Jun 21, 2013: Animal Crossing New Leaf - One Week Later This has been a good week. The game I originally bought my 3DS for back in 2011 was released! Animal Crossing: New Leaf is awesome. There aren’t …
May 31, 2013: Connectify's NXDOMAIN Misdirections I use Connectify Pro on my Windows box to share my internet connection to a wireless access point so I can access the internet on my Kindle, and 3DS. …
Feb 17, 2013: Backlogs and Buying New Games.... Backlogs and Buying New Games…. Damn, I really want Persona 4 Golden… but honestly will I get time to play it? Ignoring Four in February …
Feb 3, 2013: Four in February Progress 1/4 Finished my first game of Four in February! 7:28:36 and I’ve destroyed the One Ring in Lego Lord of the Rings. Woop! I won’t be continuing …
Dec 18, 2012: Early Christmas Presents Since my girlfriend and I won’t be spending Christmas together (homes being half way across the country has a way of doing this) we decided to …
Nov 17, 2012: First Impressions of Windows 8 I panned Windows 8’s modern UI when I first saw it, and then again when it finally came out. Now I’ve actually installed it on a desktop PC I’m …
Jul 24, 2012: Been lazy lately, but some good news too! I’ve slacked off the last week or so since I broke (and have now fixed) my bike, and now that the weather is awesome (and I have the day off work!) …
Jul 10, 2012: Biking, biking, biking! +Laurence Andrews already posted about our latest biking escapade. I’ve made a point to go more days this week than last, and so far I’ve equalled my …
Jun 28, 2012: European QR Codes for Mario Tennis Open Go to the file selection screen in game, and press Up+Start. The QR code scanner will open; then just scan any of the following! These should work for …
Apr 16, 2012: Android Applications that are Awesome This post is mainly for my friend Jack’s benefit, since he has finally gotten up to speed with a new HTC One S. You might find it handy too, though. …
Mar 16, 2012: Catching up with my iPad and other assorted crap I’m quite happy to have my shiny (sort of) new iPad. No, I don’t have an iPad (3rd Generation) or a ‘New iPad’ as everyone …
Mar 6, 2012: Cheap Microphone Stand for Podcasting... Yeah, I realise there is probably a million things wrong with this, but hey… We’re poor and can’t afford a proper stand at the …
Jan 30, 2012: 3DS Circle Pad Pro Review I have pretty big hands, because I’m a pretty big guy. I love my DSi XL for this reason: it’s the most comfortable handheld console …
Jan 28, 2012: Day 5 of reduced caffeine So nearly a week has passed with energy drinks! I did have Lucozade Cola at lunch today which apparently contained 0.012% caffeine or some small …
Jan 26, 2012: Day 3 of reduced caffeine. Ouch. I think I realised I had a problem after I took this photo at the university library the other week. I was probably drinking an average of 1 to …
Jan 6, 2012: Apple Airport Express and the case of the wrong region My Airport Express has been used for about six months via ethernet to stream audio, but recently I moved stuff around and had a tidy up and now my …
Oct 23, 2011: Crunchbang Linux I’ve made space on my PC this week for Linux, in particular Crunchbang. I still dual boot into Windows for games, and currently for Skype as it …
Oct 22, 2011: £89 Kindle I’ve had my shiny new kindle for a week now, and having upgraded from a (somewhat) ancient Sony PRS-505 I’m much happier for it. The …
Jul 26, 2011: Blocking Facebook Connect in Google Chrome Seeing my Facebook details plastered over other websites always concerns me, and I definitely do not want to login using my Facebook details! Adblock …
Feb 25, 2011: Apple AirPort Express Replaced an old wireless access point with an Apple AirPort Express this week. It’s pretty neat, the best part being wireless speakers connected to …
Feb 22, 2011: Removing EXIF Data Using Paint.net A simple way to remove pesky EXIF data in photos (such as location information): Ctrl + A –> Ctrl + C –> Ctrl + Alt + V This copies the …