Colin Hoad
@colinhoad.com
Senior Data Engineer at cfc.com
"Vintage computing enthusiast" -- The Register
I run a YouTube channel and blog dedicated to the Beeb and all things Acorn, Psion and more:
https://www.colinhoad.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/zjvSBjG7rw
Art: VectorinID
"Vintage computing enthusiast" -- The Register
I run a YouTube channel and blog dedicated to the Beeb and all things Acorn, Psion and more:
https://www.colinhoad.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/zjvSBjG7rw
Art: VectorinID
That play is so good, you should be rightly proud of it. Scared the pants off me and my wife when we went to see it in London last year!
December 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
That play is so good, you should be rightly proud of it. Scared the pants off me and my wife when we went to see it in London last year!
Haha honestly it made me smile more than anything else!
December 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Haha honestly it made me smile more than anything else!
That's very kind of you to say, thank you! Hopefully I can look at some slightly better games in 2026 😅
December 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
That's very kind of you to say, thank you! Hopefully I can look at some slightly better games in 2026 😅
Must admit I've never used OS/2 (and I only barely touched NT, when I helped out with the school network). I was on Win 3.1 and DOS as a teenager, cut my teeth on AUTOEXEC.BAT and various floppy boot discs 😆
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Must admit I've never used OS/2 (and I only barely touched NT, when I helped out with the school network). I was on Win 3.1 and DOS as a teenager, cut my teeth on AUTOEXEC.BAT and various floppy boot discs 😆
Yeah, I was running Win 2k when I went to uni and held out for quite a while... eventually had to cave to XP because some game or other wouldn't run under Win 2k (think it might have been Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yeah, I was running Win 2k when I went to uni and held out for quite a while... eventually had to cave to XP because some game or other wouldn't run under Win 2k (think it might have been Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
Windows 98 was the peak Microsoft OS, for me. I also enjoyed Win 2k. XP was OK, and made certain things simpler, but I was never overly fond of its cartoonish soft corners and the way they tried to bury DOS / the command prompt.
December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Windows 98 was the peak Microsoft OS, for me. I also enjoyed Win 2k. XP was OK, and made certain things simpler, but I was never overly fond of its cartoonish soft corners and the way they tried to bury DOS / the command prompt.
I was very much a signed up member of the PC brigade, and was a PC first gamer all through the 90s and 2000s. I didn't get my first console until the Nintendo Wii! (I *did* have an OG Gameboy, though, and that thing was ace)
December 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I was very much a signed up member of the PC brigade, and was a PC first gamer all through the 90s and 2000s. I didn't get my first console until the Nintendo Wii! (I *did* have an OG Gameboy, though, and that thing was ace)
"Intel Outside" 🤣 Thanks, this is a fun video
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Intel Outside" 🤣 Thanks, this is a fun video
Some say they never recovered 😆
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Some say they never recovered 😆
The alt text on that image 😆
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The alt text on that image 😆
Reposted by Colin Hoad
And now you know why I needed it: youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE?...
Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
YouTube video by suckerpinch
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December 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And now you know why I needed it: youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE?...
memory fades, not to mention that of our older friends and relatives, what recourse will we have for stimulating the brain to recall genuine memories? I foresee a grim future in which we can no longer tell if photos show things that were real, our connection to a past time forever lost. (3/3)
December 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
memory fades, not to mention that of our older friends and relatives, what recourse will we have for stimulating the brain to recall genuine memories? I foresee a grim future in which we can no longer tell if photos show things that were real, our connection to a past time forever lost. (3/3)
photos as a means of aiding memory, particularly as we all get older. The fact that you can now falsify photos by using AI to conjure up scenes that never happened means our trust in photography will steadily erode until we can no longer rely on it as once we did. Not only that, but as our own (2/3)
December 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
photos as a means of aiding memory, particularly as we all get older. The fact that you can now falsify photos by using AI to conjure up scenes that never happened means our trust in photography will steadily erode until we can no longer rely on it as once we did. Not only that, but as our own (2/3)
I read recently that one of Sir Terry's planned but unfinished Discworld novels was going to centre around Susan as headmistress of a school in Quirm, and I am so sad this never came to be! Susan is awesome.
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I read recently that one of Sir Terry's planned but unfinished Discworld novels was going to centre around Susan as headmistress of a school in Quirm, and I am so sad this never came to be! Susan is awesome.
They do, because we're both reading the same one 😆 But I picked Susan as the main character because she is always the main character whenever she shows up 😂
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
They do, because we're both reading the same one 😆 But I picked Susan as the main character because she is always the main character whenever she shows up 😂
Psion > smartphone
Bring back the palmtop!
Bring back the palmtop!
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Psion > smartphone
Bring back the palmtop!
Bring back the palmtop!
"You have two cows..."
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"You have two cows..."
Dog shopkeepers are the ones I want.
Cat shopkeepers are probably the ones I deserve.
Cat shopkeepers are probably the ones I deserve.
December 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dog shopkeepers are the ones I want.
Cat shopkeepers are probably the ones I deserve.
Cat shopkeepers are probably the ones I deserve.