Since my ‘youth’ I’ve listened to the music, spoken word and read books written by ‘punk’ vocalist Henry Rollins. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. For his Black Flag days, I’d go and listen to their ‘Damaged’ album if you just want to sample one. For his spoken word, I’d say ‘Boxed Life (1992)’ is best, but him reading his own book ‘Get in the Van’ is also excellent....
Whilst sorting through some files on my archive server following a recent drive swap, I was cleaning out a few duplicate files and directories from the 2005-2010 era, when I stumbled upon a folder called ‘rtcw-saves’. Yes, it was a folder of saved games from the 2001 game ‘Return to Castle Wolfenstein’. This game is so old they even open sourced the code back in 2010. I then had a look through my CD spindle (remember those?...
I recently got a standing desk for home - the Flexispot EQ5 ‘Pro’ courtesy of a sale on Amazon. For years I just had an old basic IKEA desk at home - a piece of cheap board on a metal frame, and that was fine, even for the majority of the COVID-induced work from home. As the surface got more worn from day-to-day usage and random electronics and craft projects, I covered it with craft cutting boards to hide the rougher areas....
This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? Not too much in the way of new kit to be honest in the last six months, though there is some minor additional storage and some configuration changes to mention. I removed a 5 year old WD Red 4TB drive from the Linux archive server, and replaced it with a 6TB Seagate IronWolf drive. I also took the opportunity to change my storage setup....
Hello Hugo. Hello, and this time, if you’re reading this in November 2021 or thereabouts, you’re reading brightblack as generated by the Hugo static site generator. If you were reading for the near two years before this date, it was likely generated by Jekyll. Yes, I switched. For the reader, I hope this change will be transparent, though my URL redirect for anyone with old links might be a bit sketchy, and so apologies for any 404s....