Pixabay
Pixabay is one of the largest repositories of royalty free stock images – you can use these anywhere, even for commercial purposes. I’ve just started a profile to ‘give back’ to…
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Notes & perspectives.
Technology, ideas and the occasional detour.
Geocaching
I am a fan of Geocaching, although I don’t always have time these days to log all the one’s I’ve visited. You can view our profile here:…
Read morePsalm 2 – AI Generated Worship Song
This is my second foray into AI generated content for YouTube. At this point it’s a learning experience in prompt engineering and video composition. There are still some areas…
Read morePsalm 1 – AI Generated Song
This is my second video experimenting with AI generated content. In this case I decided to make a song from Psalm 1 in the Old Testament Bible.
Read moreYou Need to Think About Data Quality
First experiment with an AI generated video. I picked a subject that I’m very familiar with.
Read moreFireworks in Slow Motion
Just a slowed down version of the fireworks at the Calgary Stampede in 2017.
Read moreBuilding the Pantheon in Minecraft (Timelapse)
This was a project that my nephew had for school. At that time he was really big into Minecraft (it’s football and Everton now), we used to play together on a self-hosted server I…
Read moreAdventures in Stop Motion
Years ago I was getting into stopmotion and put some videos up on YouTube. This is one of the surviving ones (others taken down later for music copyright violations).
Read morePuzzle Two Stopmotion
Many years ago I had fun creating this youtube video.
Read morePixel Spacebase
This project is something I started but never got round to finishing. All the level designs are complete, however there is still a lot of work to do on assets, story and boss…
Read morePasta
A small app for working with remote environments (such as Citrix) where copy and paste functionality has been disabled. Pasta uses modules like pyautogui and keyboard to read the…
Read moreWhenWasThat
This is a small script using Python Pandas that takes a date input and can tell how exactly how long ago the event took place in human readable syntax.…
Read moreIP and Subnet Mapper
This is a useful little CLI tool written in Python that will take a given CIDR syntax and convert it to IPs or list of IP addresses and convert to CIDR range. It can also take a…
Read moreSelf-Destruct
A script written in Python which is designed to self-destruct on execution, unless a date-based key is provided (generated with the generate_key script). Works on Linux or…
Read moreSpooning with Pentaho Data Integrator
Pentaho Data Integrator is a neat open source, cross-platform tool for making light work of ETL. I have it set up on my Ubuntu laptop and can run it directly from the command…
Read moreConverting Duel Boot Windows 7 Partition to a VM
I recently got a new replacement work laptop with Windows 7 installed. Despite the great desire to shrink it and put a more mature and stable OS on to use, I decided to give Win 7…
Read moreVMware Image Quick Fix
Recently I had a virtual machine set to use 2gb ram which I was trying to run in VMware Player on my work laptop which also has 2gb phyiscal memory. I don’t have the full…
Read moreCurious Problem with Cork City Locale Geocaching Pocket Query
If you’re a premium member with Groundspeak’s geocaching.com then you will be aware of the ability to create pocket queries. These are really useful for throwing up to 1000…
Read moreCreating a Quick n’ Easy Fake Tilt-Shift Photo with Gimp
One of the reasons I haven’t been posting lately is I’ve been going through our holiday photos. I’ve just created my first fake tilt-shift photo with the aid of Gimp! Tilt-shift…
Read moreReview: The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
I bought The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics last month looking for a good chunk of zombie apocalypse escapism. A unique collection of a dozen or so zombie stories, some long, some…
Read moreFixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 2)
In Part 1 I explained how my Garmin 60CSx booted up with a completely blank screen and doing a firmware update didn’t work – despite the update being successful. Now I’m going to…
Read moreFixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 1)
Last week I had a minor panic attack and bout of depression. After coming back from one of the 10 Year Lost and Found Geocaching events late at night, I dropped my Garmin GPSmap…
Read moreReview: WE3
I read this graphic novel about a year ago, before I started this blog. It’s a short, well written simple story which seems inspired by those Homeward Bound type of stories, but…
Read moreReview: The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything
I just finished reading The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything . I read it in part because I’m interested in big picture ideas and why things are the…
Read moreCross Dressing Lego Storm-Trooper Geocaching Travel Bug
About 6 months ago I had an idea for a travel bug – a lego figure that requires cachers to trade just one item until it no longer looked like it’s former self. This idea morphed…
Read moreReview: Beam Me Up, Jesus
I picked up this book, by Jim Gerard (who is apparently a comedian) expecting a witty, well-researched, ‘Louis Theroux’ look into end-times rapture pop culture – the cousin of…
Read moreReview: The End of America
I picked up this book in the Borders sell off, it wasn’t one I was desperate to read, but it piqued my interest. End of America, the: Letters of Warning to a Young Patriot , by…
Read moreReview: The Men Who Stare at Goats
I was a little curious when I saw the title of the movie come out and when I spotted this book on sale I decided to pick it up and satisfy my curiosity. As it is, I’ve now read…
Read moreReview: The Morello Letters
I recently finished reading The Morello Letters from Monster Publishing. Jon Snow, who is featured in the book as one of the recipients of RM Morello’s letters is quoted on the…
Read moreReview: World War Z by Max Brooks
I recently finished reading this book so I thought I’d share my opinion. Now I must declare my bias, I really like zombie stories, but I tend to go for the movie/graphic novel…
Read moreReview: Charles Mackay’s Extrodinary Popular Delusions & The Madness of Crowds
“A modern-day interpretation of a finance classic” That was a long title for a short book. It’s not the actual Charles Mackay work, it’s a modernised version written by journalist…
Read moreReview: Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection
Zot! is another one of those classics that I missed at the time when it wasn’t a classic, it was new. Thankfully, a couple of years ago Scott McCloud brought out the complete…
Read moreHeadless Recovery with Persistent Ubuntu Live USB
As some of you know, recently my Samsung NC10 netbook screen was smashed in an unfortunate accident. I have since replaced this with the excellent Sammy N210 but was at a loss…
Read moreReview: Maus
Last year I read Watchmen for the first time. I read it before watching the movie because I didn’t want my perception of the novel to be influenced by the movie, I wanted to…
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