Journal
Longer-form writing. Things I’ve maybe been mulling over for a while. There is no pre-determined topic — I could end up writing about anything really.
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Capturing the stories
I have an internet friend who was also once my boss. He writes a lot over on his blog — he writes blogging tips, short stories, cyberpunk, funny/quirky tales. I find it inspiring for myself wanting to create short stories too. Not short stories in books — just blog-length ones. I tend to get little…
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How I share videos on my website
The standard way nowadays, to share a video online, is to post an embed link to youtube. This then displays that video in what’s called an iframe — an embedded website within the website you are on. What this allows youtube and parent company alphabet (read: google) to do, is to track you whilst on…
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Watched The Fog
I do love a John Carpenter film. Last night (and today, as I was too tired to watch the whole thing late last night) I watch The Fog for the first time. At least I don’t remember watching it in my youth. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It actually made me jump in two separate parts,…
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Watched Alien Romulus
I’ll just start by saying that I really enjoyed Alien Romulus. After the atrocity that was Disney’s How to train your alien (Alien Earth) I have been in need of a good Alien fix. This started with me finally playing through Alien Isolation and absolutely loving it. I then thought I’d give Romulus a chance,…
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Watched The Innocents (1961)
We decided to watch The Innocents (1961) for halloween evening film watch last night. A bit of a left field one, but is considered one of the top horror films. I thought it was okay. Good creepy vibes throughout and lots of abiguity. I was surprised when the ending kicked in. I guess I was…
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Watched The Wicker Man
Last night I finally got round to watching one of the classic horror films that has somehow been evading me for all this time — The Wicker Man (1973) Not the apparently-dreadful remake. Oh not the bees. I loved it. Despite knowing the ending already, probably through some kind of film osmosis over the years,…
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Stop the racists
On my way to get some chips from my local chippy last night, my faith in humanity was restored. As I sat there waiting for red to turn green, I noticed white spraypainted words written across a sky plus billboard advert. The first two words I read were “Stop the…” and my eyes immediately rolled…
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My website is now cut off
I’ve decided to bring my website back to a traditional website without all of the “social gubbins”. I love the IndieWeb, but I just can’t be bothered to jump through the hoops of marking up the posts with the extra classes and fiddling with my theme to make sure other sites can parse it fully.…
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“ai” is the worst thing to happen to society.
“ai” is the worst thing to happen to society. Removing more and more people from working, whilst making cancerous billionaires richer, is only ever going to result in greater and greater inequality. Everything else is parlour tricks. There is pretty much nothing good to come from any of this crap being peddled as “The greatest…
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Remember the websites?
Remember when websites used to be just websites? Just a little site for someone to call their own. It didn’t matter if people visited or not — it was there because the person creating it had a desire to build and maintain it. And yes, I said “Person”. NOT “user”. Websites didn’t have to be…
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The Walking Dead : The Ones who live
The Ones who live has immediately gone up as one of my favourite series in The Walking Dead universe. Top spot of course is Negan’s introduction. Holy Christ that was intense. But I gotta say that after finishing the six-episode series of this Rick and Michone spin-off, it has catapulted up to near the top.…
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Pockets of time
When you’re young, free and single you don’t realise how much free time you have. “Don’t have time for that” shouldn’t have even been in my vocabulary. When you meet someone and start getting serious, you will probably start seeing them most evenings and / or weekends. Despite enjoying the time spent with your new…