David Peach

Welcome to my personal homepage.

  • I was happy to see the billboard for the new series of True Detective today. Very excited for that one.

  • Its finally come to the episode of American Horror Story I’ve been waiting for — Jessica Lange’s cover of Lana Del Rey’s Gods and Monsters.

    Can’t wait.

  • Rinse and Repeat

    I find myself most nights tinkering in some way to my website with the goal of making it the best personal publishing platform it can be.

    The only problem is, is that because I spend the time tinkering with the site, I find myself not publishing as often as I’d like. I do write notes throughout the day which get published and shared out in most cases, but I’d like to be writing long form more often.

    So what I will try my best to do is write something everyday in a more long form style — within my journal section. I was inspired by Jeremy Keith’s 100 Words he has been writing every day. Its all about keeping the drive to produce results in whatever creative profession is yours -i no matter how busy you are or how you’re feeling.

    I’m looking forward to seeing what everyday writing will produce. Likely it will produce a bunch of ramblings on everyday things but maybe I’ll find a little gold nugget every once in a while.

    We shall see.

  • I think I may be getting a little bit obsessed with my document outline.

  • I’m surrounded by a thousand women doing zumba.

  • Pulled pork roll at the Peel and Stone

  • I love the web. Fridge packs up last night – and I’ve already found a second hand replacement to pick up tonight. Boom.

  • Me and the hamster are listening to Fleetwood Mac and installing Ubuntu.

  • Tonight I had the pleasure of watching Kung Fury with a mate of mine. It was bloody brilliant.

  • Thoughts on The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

    In the tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the titular character is a young boy squirrel who keeps getting up to mischief. The other squirrels are all busy collecting nuts whilst Squirrel Nutkin tries to wind up old Brown – an old owl whose home is close to where they are collecting nuts. By the end of the short tail, old Brown gets fed up of Nutkin and physically deforms him – I won’t spoil it as to how.

    I wonder if nowadays Squirrel Nutkin would be recognised as having some form of ADHD or similar? And would be handled accordingly – instead of old brown maiming him. Even in just the first two books by Beatrix Potter I’ve read, I’m noticing a theme of “If you play up or misbehave, you get punished”.

    Nevertheless a good read.

  • ownCloud – first thoughts

    I have just installed ownCloud on my laptop as a testing ground. I am soon to be buying a new computer off a friend and will be using my current one as a personal server.I decided to go with owncloud because it seems to do everything I need it to right out of the box. Cross device file syncing with as much storage as I have on my computer. All I had to do was install owncloud via the ubuntu terminal following these steps.I am starting using it on version 8.1 and first impressions are that it is very nice. It has a clean UI and straight forward settings controls. This is going to be a big step in me taking control of my own data and moving away from services like Google and Dropbox.The big job now will be to import all of my photos out of Google as well as re-downloading all of my music from google play music.

  • Trying to get ownCloud installed tonight. Firstly having to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu.