A week ago I started having issues with my home network, a network that I had built up and improved over the years. The first step in this was when we moved to this house and BT provided us with a couple of Powerline networking sockets. This allowed us to run a simple network between the router and the BT YouView...

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard. There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.

Pavel Samsonov wrote this great thing about how Nike got bit by chasing the data instead of making a better product: It’s tempting to reach only for the data that’s easiest to harvest, and stop there. That’s exactly what Nike did with their online shopping data. As a result, their product priorities rapidly diverged...

Habits are really important. Long-term goals are too but, ultimately, habits are what you are doing to yourself day in, day out. Your habits determine what goes into your body (your diet), your physical condition (diet and exercise) and your mental condition (sleep and everything else). I think you should make...

Observing the observer: Perception in Philosophy Psychology and Physics What Do Descarte, Buddhists and Astrophysicists have in common? The Answer? To give a short answer. Fundamental appreciation of one's own epistemologic limitations and an understanding of the self-referential nature of perceiving one's...

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Details of the tools, software, and hardware powering my workflow. Information on my setup, development environment, self-hosting, and multimedia management. Collates most of what I use on my laptop, servers, and phone.