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.
The Ticket Thing IS BACK!
(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,
It was twenty years ago today.
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
Wifi Conundrum – sensible answers only please…
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
And all day long we sing a happy tune…
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
Ramen Rankings
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)
Web Development? Sure. Server? Turns out, not so much…!
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
Jacket potato
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
Whisky Nerds and their terrifying birds
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.
A great man
My Dad passed away on November 7th following a short and fairly unexpected battle with cancer. We had his funeral on Friday the 14th and though we’re all sad that he’s gone, everyone’s been saying that they thought it was