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Emulation / Sega / Drum & Bass / Democracy
Loud Ambient by The Black Dog coming in strong as my album of the year; based around artwork by Rothko, each track stands on its own - but listening to the whole fits as albums used to, at least for me. I don’t see it as ambient in the literal sense; it’s an interpretation with loads more energy.
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Loud Ambient by The Black Dog coming in strong as my album of the year; based around artwork by Rothko, each track stands on its own - but listening to the whole fits as albums used to, at least for me. I don’t see it as ambient in the literal sense; it’s an interpretation with loads more energy.
13 patient months waiting for the Analogue 3D to start shipping; left Hong Kong on Thursday; arrived in Thailand today… but ooooh no!
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
13 patient months waiting for the Analogue 3D to start shipping; left Hong Kong on Thursday; arrived in Thailand today… but ooooh no!
Two of my all time favourite films about technology & security
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Two of my all time favourite films about technology & security
It’s been 18 months running FreeBSD 14 as my daily OS. Very stable and fairly fast, my only gripe has been managing userland software; pkg binaries throw a few too many surprises, and sometimes disappear… but overall I’m very happy, stick it on your laptop! owlandrews.com/texts/freebs...
FreeBSD for your laptop
An Ed edition
owlandrews.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s been 18 months running FreeBSD 14 as my daily OS. Very stable and fairly fast, my only gripe has been managing userland software; pkg binaries throw a few too many surprises, and sometimes disappear… but overall I’m very happy, stick it on your laptop! owlandrews.com/texts/freebs...
Don’t mind me, just listening to the Smashing Pampkins Greatest Hits.
July 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Don’t mind me, just listening to the Smashing Pampkins Greatest Hits.
PSA: applies to more than wizards.
July 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
PSA: applies to more than wizards.
Currently have Obsidian via a Ubuntu chroot on FreeBSD, but it gives an annoying error on every save of a file (though it does often save). I wanted a native version, it’s already added to the ports repository, but excluded from the pkg build due to a EULA. It’s just failed building after 2 days…
June 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Currently have Obsidian via a Ubuntu chroot on FreeBSD, but it gives an annoying error on every save of a file (though it does often save). I wanted a native version, it’s already added to the ports repository, but excluded from the pkg build due to a EULA. It’s just failed building after 2 days…
FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for upgrade. Running a desktop system? Don’t forget to re-install your drm-kmod components from ports, they need to be compiled for the correct base version - as I have just found out.
June 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for upgrade. Running a desktop system? Don’t forget to re-install your drm-kmod components from ports, they need to be compiled for the correct base version - as I have just found out.
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£9 billion for public services left on the table. Another stupid government decision that is behind what is happening in the rest of the world.
Labour Drugs War Erupts As Minister Slaps Down Sadiq Khan's Cannabis Call
The mayor of London wants to see the drug decriminalised.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
£9 billion for public services left on the table. Another stupid government decision that is behind what is happening in the rest of the world.
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Inspiring: how a woman born on a small island south of #PhnomPenh started her own #publishing house and helped plant the seeds of a #reading craze in #Cambodia. My first piece in the @mekongreview.com, with thanks to @kirstenhan.com:) mekongreview.com/growing-read... #SoutheastAsia #literature
Growing readers in Cambodia - Mekong Review
Publishing in Cambodia is still a fledgling, fragile industry, but it’s growing fast.
mekongreview.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Inspiring: how a woman born on a small island south of #PhnomPenh started her own #publishing house and helped plant the seeds of a #reading craze in #Cambodia. My first piece in the @mekongreview.com, with thanks to @kirstenhan.com:) mekongreview.com/growing-read... #SoutheastAsia #literature
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Todays sunset brought to you by Phuket
December 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Todays sunset brought to you by Phuket
Happy 30th birthday to the Sega Saturn, released in Japan on November 22nd; I spend an inordinate amount of time with this console and got my first one in 1998. Learning the system is never dull and often infuriating. Still have a ton of fun hacking on this hardware!
November 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Happy 30th birthday to the Sega Saturn, released in Japan on November 22nd; I spend an inordinate amount of time with this console and got my first one in 1998. Learning the system is never dull and often infuriating. Still have a ton of fun hacking on this hardware!
Pottering around Rawai, Phuket this weekend, stumbled upon the most chilled habitant of the island, and the bar is high!
September 21, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Pottering around Rawai, Phuket this weekend, stumbled upon the most chilled habitant of the island, and the bar is high!
It’s time to move house in a week, always an unsettling and stressful period; but definitely made worse by my collection of retro consoles - these cables were never supposed to be untangled…
April 27, 2024 at 9:35 AM
It’s time to move house in a week, always an unsettling and stressful period; but definitely made worse by my collection of retro consoles - these cables were never supposed to be untangled…
It’s the end of some public holidays where I am and it’s been a perfect day to continue work on my Tiled to Sega Saturn map converter. Adding support for more than 256 colour images; this sucker can do 2048 in indexed palette mode!
April 16, 2024 at 10:59 AM
It’s the end of some public holidays where I am and it’s been a perfect day to continue work on my Tiled to Sega Saturn map converter. Adding support for more than 256 colour images; this sucker can do 2048 in indexed palette mode!
#everdrive64 arrived today from Ukraine, thanks #krikzz. Haven’t played N64 for a long time, and GoldenEye is calling.
January 21, 2024 at 1:01 PM
#everdrive64 arrived today from Ukraine, thanks #krikzz. Haven’t played N64 for a long time, and GoldenEye is calling.
Never trust SD cards from resellers. I bought what I thought was 128GB SanDisk, for use with an original PSP. First 32GB worked fine, and by coincidence this was all I needed it for initially. Adding anything further was unpredictable; suspected the 20 year old device first… then lost a week.
January 20, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Never trust SD cards from resellers. I bought what I thought was 128GB SanDisk, for use with an original PSP. First 32GB worked fine, and by coincidence this was all I needed it for initially. Adding anything further was unpredictable; suspected the 20 year old device first… then lost a week.
For a classic Friday night, bring
January 12, 2024 at 3:25 PM
For a classic Friday night, bring
Is there an equivalent to Tsundoku, but for video games? If so, 2023 has been a bumper year for me, here are my top 3 games bought in 2023, but never got any time to play them…
January 7, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Is there an equivalent to Tsundoku, but for video games? If so, 2023 has been a bumper year for me, here are my top 3 games bought in 2023, but never got any time to play them…
After a very long absence from attempting to run a *nix on desktop I installed FreeBSD 15 on a cheap(ish) Lenovo Carbon X1 Gen7. The experience has so far been unexpectedly good (helps to have researched the hardware). WiFi (not 100%), Suspend/Resume, audio (yes, audio!), trackpad, graphics all work
January 5, 2024 at 12:50 PM
After a very long absence from attempting to run a *nix on desktop I installed FreeBSD 15 on a cheap(ish) Lenovo Carbon X1 Gen7. The experience has so far been unexpectedly good (helps to have researched the hardware). WiFi (not 100%), Suspend/Resume, audio (yes, audio!), trackpad, graphics all work
So far resprite has been easy and intuitive to work with, using it in my iPhone it’s just my thumbs that are the main problem. Made a blorb.
December 26, 2023 at 2:19 PM
So far resprite has been easy and intuitive to work with, using it in my iPhone it’s just my thumbs that are the main problem. Made a blorb.
Gone with resprite.fengeon.com for now, although it’s newer and has less reviews that I can find, it’s targeting a closer UI to aseprite, supports the .aseprite format and ultimately; the only one that worked on both iPhone and iPad. I’m a complete amateur at pixel art so consistency valued most.
December 26, 2023 at 7:35 AM
Gone with resprite.fengeon.com for now, although it’s newer and has less reviews that I can find, it’s targeting a closer UI to aseprite, supports the .aseprite format and ultimately; the only one that worked on both iPhone and iPad. I’m a complete amateur at pixel art so consistency valued most.