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Our washing machine packed up on Friday. In fact, it’s just something jammed in the drainage pump (we think), however to get to it you’ve got to basically take the whole thing apart – and based on recent repairs to the dishwasher we reckon that’s gonna be at least £100 for parts & labour. The…
There you are, thinking “Well, I’ve been posting data on an Instagram feed – might be nice to organise and visualise it a bit differently?”. No problem – surely there are various ways to query Insta based on hashtags? Oh. [i]You CAN search Insta for a hashtag, but it only shows you ALL posts with…
(I bet you didn’t even notice it was missing…) Some while back I wrote a thing so that it was possible to look at all my old gig tickets. Because for reasons I can’t fully explain in an acceptable timeframe, I have the ticket to EVERY GIG I’VE EVER BEEN TO scanned and stored in…
I mean, this is the kind of moment that calls for a stop & reminisce, right? 20 years ago today – May 2nd, 2004 – I stepped off a British Airways flight from Adelaide via Singapore which had freshly landed at Heathrow Airport. The Jason that had just left Australia was 28 years old, spent…
So, a few years back we bought a Ring video doorbell – and despite the early promise of Great Things the reality has been that the whole thing’s a bit pants. Ever the masochist, I decided to figure out what the problem was and then come up with a gameplan to make it better. From…
Sesame Street, man. The early 70s (and by extension, re-runs in the mid-late 70s onwards) was a helluva time for educational TV, cos nobody really had any idea what it was. Sesame Street churned out some amazing stuff – and not least among it, the Capital I song. Who are these people? Why do they…
I love ramen. One of my life’s side-quests is to find the perfect bowl. This is my attempt at tracking and ranking the places I’ve had it. Bristol, unless otherwise indicated. The Gold Collection Kanada Ya (London, Central St Giles) Be still, my beating heart. A place I used to go for coffee back in…
Having recently changed jobs to work for a fairly sizable UK-based web hosting company, I found myself considering my web hosting setup. The bulk of the websites I tool about with in my spare time are WordPress, just because of the sorts of things going on on those websites. The whole “personal website” journey for…
As you get older, life serves up certain inevitabilities. In 1994 I was contacted by the Boy Scouts of America to inform me that I’d been successful in applying to be a summer camp counsellor, and would be heading off to Mississippi in the near future. This meant acquiring some new outdoor gear, and I…
For some reason whisky folks pop up from time to time in photos engaged in practices relating to Falconry (& associated disciplines). It seemed silly not to gather them in an album.