Neil Harris
@theneilharris.bsky.social
Software Engineer, nerd, video gamer, tabletop gamer, board gamer, cricketer, metal head.
Excellent as usual. Listening to you both bemoaning the energy wasted of political infighting the thought occurs that it is inherent to politicians that they must play politics all the time, even inventing things to play politics about. Was it ever thus and has just become more public?
January 29, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Excellent as usual. Listening to you both bemoaning the energy wasted of political infighting the thought occurs that it is inherent to politicians that they must play politics all the time, even inventing things to play politics about. Was it ever thus and has just become more public?
I've read the book (it's good) and seen the film. It's different but not terribly so and I think it does a good job of the source material. I've always enjoyed it even though many people don't rate it.
May 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I've read the book (it's good) and seen the film. It's different but not terribly so and I think it does a good job of the source material. I've always enjoyed it even though many people don't rate it.
I totally missed this in a timely fashion but can I offer a post episode recommendation for EM Forsters the Machine Stops as an early sci fi / dystopia novella of quality
May 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I totally missed this in a timely fashion but can I offer a post episode recommendation for EM Forsters the Machine Stops as an early sci fi / dystopia novella of quality
Atomfall is an absolutely gorgeous game that's really great to play as well. Yes it has a couple of little annoyances, but no games are perfect. Would definitely recommend
April 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Atomfall is an absolutely gorgeous game that's really great to play as well. Yes it has a couple of little annoyances, but no games are perfect. Would definitely recommend
That is a thing of beauty
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
That is a thing of beauty
War truly has never been so much fun
December 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
War truly has never been so much fun
In fairness I had it running a cut back windows 10 quite well at some point in the not too distant past. It's quite a capable machine in the right scenarios
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
In fairness I had it running a cut back windows 10 quite well at some point in the not too distant past. It's quite a capable machine in the right scenarios
Yeah that's the one. I got a lot of use out of mine. Excellent little machine for the right workloads. Might have to dig mine back out and try some sort of Linux on it.
December 5, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Yeah that's the one. I got a lot of use out of mine. Excellent little machine for the right workloads. Might have to dig mine back out and try some sort of Linux on it.
Is this the model with the AMD chipset in it that had a superior graphics capability? I have one of those somewhere and for life of me can't remember where I put it.
December 5, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Is this the model with the AMD chipset in it that had a superior graphics capability? I have one of those somewhere and for life of me can't remember where I put it.
Absolutely anyone who spends any time typing on a computer should invest in a mechanical keyboard, good ones are under £100 and so much better to use.
Also 3d printers are now super cheap, Bambulabs make excellent ones at entry level prices. real question is why not buy one?
Also 3d printers are now super cheap, Bambulabs make excellent ones at entry level prices. real question is why not buy one?
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Absolutely anyone who spends any time typing on a computer should invest in a mechanical keyboard, good ones are under £100 and so much better to use.
Also 3d printers are now super cheap, Bambulabs make excellent ones at entry level prices. real question is why not buy one?
Also 3d printers are now super cheap, Bambulabs make excellent ones at entry level prices. real question is why not buy one?
I picked one of those up a few years back basically complete and with some extra metal minis thrown in, awesome. I think I'm now only missing maybe the 5th ed 40k rules from my collection (most of which were mine from when they were released)
November 24, 2024 at 1:01 PM
I picked one of those up a few years back basically complete and with some extra metal minis thrown in, awesome. I think I'm now only missing maybe the 5th ed 40k rules from my collection (most of which were mine from when they were released)
You've clearly not spent enough time travelling around south yorkshire then..
November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
You've clearly not spent enough time travelling around south yorkshire then..
The house of commons would need to suspend him for a period of at least 10 days.
erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4912...
erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4912...
Recall of MPs - Erskine May - UK Parliament
Information on the 'Recall of MPs' section of Erskine May.
erskinemay.parliament.uk
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
The house of commons would need to suspend him for a period of at least 10 days.
erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4912...
erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4912...
My wife is a nurse, failure to declare a conviction of this sort during the registration process is likely to be a bigger issue than the existence of the actual conviction. A lie of ommission would be a failure against the requirement to be of good character
November 22, 2024 at 10:08 AM
My wife is a nurse, failure to declare a conviction of this sort during the registration process is likely to be a bigger issue than the existence of the actual conviction. A lie of ommission would be a failure against the requirement to be of good character
That's a lovely setup.
My kids are showing very little inclination to move out so I think a dedicated gaming room is a long long way off!
My kids are showing very little inclination to move out so I think a dedicated gaming room is a long long way off!
November 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
That's a lovely setup.
My kids are showing very little inclination to move out so I think a dedicated gaming room is a long long way off!
My kids are showing very little inclination to move out so I think a dedicated gaming room is a long long way off!
I wish I had room to get mine out of the loft, A600 + second disk drive, 1mb additional RAM expansion and a 512mb PCMCIA hard drive. Absolute belter of a machine
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I wish I had room to get mine out of the loft, A600 + second disk drive, 1mb additional RAM expansion and a 512mb PCMCIA hard drive. Absolute belter of a machine
Except for some specific scenarios relating to specific hardware/software Win 11 is absolutely fine when compared to Win 10, I.e. exactly the same upgrade scenario as nearly ever other version of windows
November 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Except for some specific scenarios relating to specific hardware/software Win 11 is absolutely fine when compared to Win 10, I.e. exactly the same upgrade scenario as nearly ever other version of windows
It came with Deluxe Paint, which was an amazing piece of software. I would still prefer to use that now over pretty much all the modern image manipulation packages
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
It came with Deluxe Paint, which was an amazing piece of software. I would still prefer to use that now over pretty much all the modern image manipulation packages
FedEx has always been the highest bandwidth, highest latency transfer mechanism.
November 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
FedEx has always been the highest bandwidth, highest latency transfer mechanism.