2025-04-01 [Music, OpenMic]
Open-mic this month fell on April 1st, and I figured I'd probably only get one chance to rickroll a pub on April Fools' Day.
2025-03-02 [Linux]
My daughter is angling after a laptop for her ninth birthday later this year. It so happens that we have a spare laptop - a Lenovo Ideapad which my wife bought in order to work from home, before Covid appeared and she was sent home with a beefy PC workstation and two nice monitors. The laptop currently runs Windows 10, and is very unlikely to run Windows 11. In any case, since Windows seems to be little more than a front for advertising these days, I've decided that it will be replaced with a suitable GNU/Linux distribution before she gets her hands on it. I'm a Kubuntu user, but I thought I would investigate Edubuntu by downloading the ISO, firing up a VirtualBox VM, and installing it. These are my notes.
2025-02-04 [Music, OpenMic]
At the start of last year, round about bathtime, my daughter observed that a great many bands (at these those with which she was acquainted at the time) seemed to be "all-boys". I acknowledged, rather sadly, that this was indeed the case. Whereas I could name a plethora of all-male bands, and probably several with a mixture of male and female, I couldn't come up with many that were all-female.
2025-02-02 [Opinions, Predictions]
I don't much like making predictions, largely out of fear that they will come true. But just to put a marker in the sand, here is my prediction for who will ultimately be blamed if we do end in an irreversible climate-change disaster scenario. It will be...
2025-01-29 [Opinions, Rants]
I hate emojis. They can all fuck off.
2025-01-25 [Opinions, Programming]
As a programmer, I generally like what I do. But occasionally I find myself having to deal with something that just seems to suck all of the joy out of existence and make me long for the comfort of an early grave. One of those things is Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2025-01-21 [Politics]
Maybe this would have seemed more prescient if I'd posted it before Trump's inaugration, but I assumed it would be obvious to everyone.
2025-01-20
A few days off, largely due to visiting family.
2025-01-15 [Domestic]
Well, not the Queen of Sheba so much as my sister and my mum, come to visit for a few days.
2025-01-14 [Opinions]
Currently the entire world is waiting with bated breath for Nintendo to reveal details of the successor to the Switch. Rumours suggest this could happen on 16th January. Ahead of this, here are my predictions for the new console: