Building Bathrooms and Comedy/Music gigs – Sept 2024

The bathroom took all month, but it is finished. As of today, I have all my rooms back, they are no longer filled with building materials and bathroom overflow.

Also went to a gig, watched a comedy show, continued with Improv, and ranted about the new government and stuff.

Small World and elections and microsoft’s spyware and improv – May 2024

Spent a couple of days at Small World Festival this month, dancing and enjoying sun with friends. Started a stint with an improv group, and got real work done on the next Observers cartoon. Meanwhile the UK government finally fell apart so an emergency election was called, and Microsoft decided to have all their computers…

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May 2023 – A new king is corronated, I release two cartoons, AI’s progress continues.

A new king is corronated, I release two cartoons, AI’s progress continues, and the usual pile of links and stuff. Me The king got a coronation so I wonder about pulling swords from stones and watched some protoestors and photoshopped the new monarch and his crown Starmer was saying how Labour are the real Conservatives…

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50th Birthday Party

March Update: All steam ahead. See you on Saturday! A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of my birth will take place on the 4th of March 2023, upstairs at the Roebuck on Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG from 3pm until my birthday begins at midnight. Chilling in the afternoon, maybe some computer games on the…

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Installing Calckey

Calkey is a open-source microblogging server that uses ActivityPub. It’s a fork of Misskey – both are similar to Mastodon and other software for connecting to the Fediverse. Seems really nice on first glance. Shame there’s not likely ever going to be a way to port an existing Mastodon instance into a new Calckey on.…

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Peru 2022 Photos

As the monarch died, I boarded a plane bound for Peru and spent the mourning period having Peruvian adventures instead of being stuck at home with nothing but Mourn-Hub on TV. Here’s a photo gallery, you can also click the links below to see some description from my microblog at the time. I flew all…

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Haven Protocol

Someone mentioned the Haven protocol and I didn’t know what it was. Sometimes I look into some of these sorts of things a bit. Let’s have a look at this one. What does their documentation say? https://havenprotocol.org/knowledge/how-does-haven-work/ To Paraphrase, if we call Haven “X” for short, “Owning xCoin lets you convert your xCoin into xAssets…

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Zombie on the Orba

I have a new toy, it’s a hand-sized synth and looper. It’s fun look! Same video, multiple places. Who knows what they’ll delete you for. On Odysee: On Youtube

A guy playing and singing

November Digest

Social * The war with the squirrels continues. More engineers called out to fix their damage. * Commented about an article suggesting Facebook are in trouble coz their audience is aging and quitting and the cool kids are joining. * And indeed I finally finished leaving Facebook myself. This won’t be posted there. * Captain…

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Abbey Road without beatles, but with inset-images of two gigs a pumpkin and half a computer.

The New Decade

At the end of this month, we start a new decade. The twenty twenties. The century is out of it’s teens, drunk and staggering around looking for purpose. Trying to decide what to do with the rest of its existence. Where have we come from to get us here? Basically my whole life we have…

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Glasto 2019

Back from #Glasto2019 which was enormous fun and remains basically the best party on the planet. Bjorn Again opened it brilliantly, being funny and playing Abba tunes makes for a great show. Tankus The Henge were groovy and funky and I still love his smoking piano/climbing-frame. Tim off of the Charlatans has even more stupid…

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Storytimer

Last night I made a story-timer for my improv group based on Dan Harmon’s ranting about story structure. I hope they like it. https://dalliance.net/storytimer/

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Meditation 2019

I’ve been meditating again this year. A third of the time with Sam Harris’s new app. I got it for free since I got in early. Ages ago and regularly I’ve donated to his podcast. You should feed the media you love. It seems way more expensive than warranted otherwise to me otherwise. A tenner…

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Brexit Smexsit.

Whether we are in or out of the European Union isn’t even close to being the thing which prevents “us” from taking back “control” in this country. Whatever your “Us” vs “Them” may be. Most of us live in places where our votes don’t even count. Safe seats in the UK: 382 Total seats in…

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Preaching to my choir

I never really believed the polls when they were predicting like half of all votes would be voting Tory, so I’m not sure there’s been as much of a swing as is reported really, more like a polls-error-correction. Through most of the elections I’ve been really aware for, there’s been little choice on offer frankly.…

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Existential comics

Existential Comics this week is easily one of their best. I wonder if that counts as interfering with the election? Not like in a CIA, way, not even in a Russia way, but more in a geek-in-the-basement way, which is easily the coolest. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/186

I watch the election debate so you don’t have to.

An IRC translation of the election debate, written with prejudice. Mod: Look, this is still cool. We had them all last time. It’s like an elimination round. A spin-off show. This is like the Elections Little Brother or something. Intro Statements ======================= Green: After the war, we actually invested in our country and made all…

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Holloway

I live over the road from Holloway Prison. But Holloway Prison is no longer a prison. The last of the inmates escaped last year. When I say “Escaped” I mean “were transfered to other, hopefully better, prisons”. And it’s the government’s intention to sell the land to developers, basically. I can see an argument for…

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Audacity ramble

The thing about when the audio-editing software “Audacity” crashes on you (which it has done on me several times tonight) is that at least you get to step back from your standing desk and throw your arms out and exclaim “How DARE you have the AUDACITY to just suddenly lock up right THEN!? When I…

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miles

My phone keyboard app tells me that I have swiped a mile with it now. That’s done in, roughly, a year. Depending on whether it’s counting distance racked up on the old stolen phone. I think this is low, compared to most folk’s who use a Swype-style swiping keyboard. For Swift Key isn’t really about…

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EU Robot

The EU parliament have written a report on the regulation of robots in the EU. It’s pretty good, all in all. Asking many of the right questions, suggesting some reasonable answers. And a few unreasonable ones, but hopefully that’ll get ironed out in subsequent drafts. It’s stupidly long and detailed with no beauty and is…

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I hate windows

Somehow or another my “offline” login to my Windows box seems to have been changed during the last session to an online account attached to my email address but with a different password that I don’t know. It tells me I can change this at screwyoucustomer.microsoftarebastards.com Presumably if you own Windows you’re expected to have…

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VPN

As you may know, the government have passed their Snoopers Charter retro-actively legalizing their spying on all citizens, legalizing lying in court about where they get their evidence, and promising that in future they’ll ensure your complete browsing history is available to everyone from MI5 through the Food Standards Agency to the Gambling Commission. You…

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democracy

Read two great posts this evening. One, from Paul Arbair (great name, great profile picture) here: https://paularbair.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/trump-and-the-autumn-of-democracy/ One from the better-known George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/13-crises-we-face-trump-soil-loss-global-collapse George was the guy who first pointed me at Paul Arbair in the first place (though not that Arbair post), but even despite that they seem…

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Keypad

Observations upon owning a keyboard with a separate number-pad for a few days It’s really nice having the mouse that bit closer to the right hand. It’s not about the reach, or the time it takes to traverse the reach, it’s mostly about the angle of your muscles and bones during use. Mouse-work is BAD…

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Phone Keyboards

The N900 is still by far my favorite of all the phones I ever owned, and it was so for three main reasons. Number one: The slide-out keyboard. When I had that keyboard, the best email-interface was still just Mutt over a terminal. Which is to say, the best and most efficient email-interface ever! A…

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N900