Tom Fotherby
The ETH 2.0 Rap
I loved this Ethereum 2.0 Rap so much that I paid a Freelancer to transcribe the Lyrics using peopleperhour.com. Bear in mind, this is the future richest person in the world – EPIC: We didn’t know all the in-jokes / protocols / terminologies so I’d welcome corrections. (See, we freestyle sometimes…) Know your gas limit… […]
Sheds need new home
While we did some work on our house we used two 2nd-hand sheds for storage. We no longer need them. Does anybody want to come and take them off our hands? They are a pair that was originally joined end-to-end as one long shed. One has a door and windows on the front, the other […]
What I learnt from my first DeFi experience
There’s a Bitcoin enthusiast called Michael Saylor that seems to do a hundred interviews a day lately. “Enthusiast” is too weak a word for him. He’s our champion. He has laser beam eyes of pure Bitcoin energy. From listening to him I have understood that not only has he put all his spare cash into […]
Closed Bitvolution website
I closed down my contracting website (bitvolution.com) because that is not my gig anymore (and hasn’t been for a long time). I thought I’d archive the homepage and portfolio here, you know, for reasons. The WordPress theme was original (created in-house, lol). I had open-sourced it and submitted it to the WordPress directory but alas, […]
Often late == Fundamentally hopeful ?
People who are continuously late are actually just more optimistic. Simply put, they’re fundamentally hopeful. http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/07/why-im-always-late.html (I’m often late) (I love the waitbutwhy website, it’s inspiring)
Using a Linksys WRT54G to extend a wireless network from a Apple Time Capsule
For Christmas I got mum a Apple Time Capsule primarily because I wanted to ensure her computer was backed up without her having to do anything pro-actively. However, I was also hoping that I could use it to extend her wireless network range (especially considering it’s damn expensive if it’s just a NAS). Currently her […]
Save the Park!
Park land and inner city greenery is sacred. That’s why I can’t believe it needs defending. But it does because the Council want to build on the Park behind Great Knollys Street (Victoria Park). If you live in or near Reading, please object online before 4/Jul/12. The Planning Application Reference number is: 12/00905/REG3 and the […]
Ubuntu is starting to fail me more and more often
My Uncle mentioned that the audio on this aging PC wasn’t working ever since he got it “repaired”. It was running Windows XP and we were initially unable to find the right audio drivers online so I thought I’d give Ubuntu a go on it. Sure enough, the audio worked fine in Ubuntu. However, with […]
Raw food supper
Kix and I are on a health drive (because of my weight issues and because of Chloes herniated disk) so Chloe cooked prepared a recipe from a friend of ours who only eats raw food! This is raw Satay style butternut noodles and raw brownies: It was delightful. The “noodles” were tasty and surprisingly filling. […]
Media keyboard (Logitech K400)
This keyboard with integrated mouse only came out this week in the UK and I’ve no idea why it took so long because I would have thought anyone with a media center TV were crying out for this form factor. I highly recommend it as a remote control for a MythTV box. It’s a good […]
Fixing WiFi on a Dell XPS L702x Laptop in Ubuntu 11.04
I have a Dell XPS L702x Laptop and the wireless is dodgy in Ubuntu 11.04. By Dodgy I mean it drops out and doesn’t automatically connect very often especially when a Ethernet cable is unplugged. It seems the problem is that Ubuntu doesn’t get on well with wireless-N (perhaps the driver is buggy?). I fixed […]
WordPress failing to email me about new blog comments
Did you know that WordPress sends you emails when you get a new blog comment? I didn’t – because it has never worked for me. But once I knew it was supposed to email me I looked into it and found a fix. Setup: My setup is running WordPress.org on a Ubuntu 9.04 box called […]
Where I spent almost all my time
Because I’m lucky enough to work from home 90% of the time, I spent almost all my life here: When it’s not work, it’s catching up with the news, checking my calendar, writing my journal, playing games, shopping, writing my todo lists, looking at photos, watching youtube, etc, etc. The good news is that being […]
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP Low Profile CPU Cooler
I bought a new CPU cooler (“Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP Low Profile CPU Cooler“) for our media center PC but unfortunately it didn’t fit on the motherboard (ASUS P5N7A-VM) even though it is the correct CPU socket type (“Intel socket 775“). It wouldn’t sit on the CPU properly because some capacitors on the motherboard […]
Halo Reach
Xbox 360, FPS, 9/10 High quality, fun game. There was a short space scene which I think they pulled off quite well, if just to show-case the incredible space-scene graphics. I don’t like the continuing trend of sad endings 🙁 .
