Ramblings and Ruminations

• The Simple Pleasure of Hand-Writing Web Pages - 16 Nov 2024, 12:32 a.m.
  

  I get a bit pensive when the colder months roll around. This is not always pleasant, and I generally manage my mind by beating the worst of my ruminations into the vague shape of a story and making...

  
  
• Exploring the Small Web: 3 Sites by/for Humans - 13 Sep 2024, 7:16 p.m.
  

  I'm not a huge lover of corporate social media. Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter...they have their uses but I find them exhausting. I've got accounts on all of them because that's where most people a...

  
  
• Well, That Was an Interesting Election - 14 Jul 2024, 3:26 p.m.
  

  All in All, Not a Bad Result

  It's been a good old while since we've had a not-Conservative government here in the UK. As a member of the Cooperative Party myself, I'm reasonably chuffed...

  
  
• I am a FreeBSD Noob (a review of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition by Michael W. Lucas) - 23 Jun 2024, 7:57 p.m.
  

  (Note: I ramble quite a bit in the first few paragraphs. Skip down to "About the Book" if you're not interested in my personal journey towards FreeBSD. You could even skip down to the summary if yo...

  
  
• Sorry I Haven't Written in a While; I Had a Baby and a Near-Death Experience - 7 Jun 2024, 10:15 p.m.
  

  Or did death have a near-me experience (GNU Terry Pratchett)?

  Either way, things have been Busy over in my little corner of East Anglia. My ambitions of documenting a fastidious journey t...

  
  
• Apparently I make medical Android apps now, and a little about my setup - 24 Jun 2023, 3:44 p.m.
  

  So, my wife asked me to make her an Android app. This is not a thing I currently know how to do, but I have to learn Java for one of the modules I want to do with the Open University, so I figure I...

  
  
• 'Hello, World!' and other cliches - 22 Jun 2023, 10:42 p.m.
  

  This first post exists mainly as an introduction, as well as a method to test whether my uploads actually work properly (if you can read this, it at least sort-of works).

  Okay, so who am I?...