Personal Meat, meat, delicious meat... I'm nearing the end of my fourth week of the zero carb way of eating.Honestly, I didn't do a hell of a lot of research in to this lifestyle before jumping in,
Technical Restart != Shutdown It would appear that according to Windows 10, shutdown is no longer a similar concept to restart. I just installed some drivers for a new device. I get a Windows popup telling me
Personal Change of iTune I always maintained that I would never own an iPhone. Android all the way. I even tested the waters with a Windows phone, but that hit the trash heap after a while -
Software Software moved to GitHub I've moved my various projects to GitHub. They can be found via the link at the top of the page, or from these direct links: Moni8er Battlefield 4 MapList Generator Battlefield 3 MapList
Personal In the beginning... ...there was blog. And it was good. Actually it wasn't. It was terrible, and it's still terrible, but it's mine. I've spent the past few days importing and converting all my old legacy
Technical Ionic Framework with Angular, Cordova, etc. I suck at titling things. I want clever titles, but sometimes you just have to go with the obvious. For the past few months, I’ve been developing a mobile application (for both
Personal A year later... I wasn’t going to post anything because I like to keep my private life, well, private. But then I realized that the reason I refrain from posting here about my doings is
Technical Firefox is a pain in the ass …at least from a system administrator point of view. Firstly, although it appears by default to be configured to ‘Use system proxy’, it ignores the system proxy settings – unless it simply takes the
Technical Some annoying things Today I learned the following things while creating a web filtering proxy for my home network: Dan’s guardian is defunct. E2Guardian is a better option, and it can do MITM SSL filtering.
Software Battlefield Hardline Maplist Generator This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield Hardline map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate
Technical Docker Comms #2 So after “fixing” docker, which ultimately broke something within one of my containers, the docker devs reverted the behaviour and I was able to undo all the changes I had made, and everything
Site Docker Comms Quite a while back I started messing around with Docker, after the forum software. I use elsewhere started making builds for it and then eventually made Docker the only supported deployment method. So
Work The Chicken and The Egg I’ve spent a long time recently going through a client’s Group Policy Object infrastructure. A large part of the GPOs are invalid – either completely broken, referencing missing items, empty, unlinked, and
Software BF4 Maplist Generator I have made what is potentially the last update to my BF4 Maplist Generator. It now supports the final expansion for what has to be the worst Battlefield release in the entire series.
Software Moni8er-1.0.5191.37002 I’ve made quite a major update to the Moni8er utility. I completely re-wrote how it does things, and there has been a significant performance boost. For a full run from scratch: Scanned
Personal Did not finish I have been a voracious reader ever since I was a child. While I was in primary school, my dad would take me to the public library on a weekly basis. As a
Software New update.dll I’ve updated the update.dll, made it error out silently by default. This is by no means a critical or important change, you can replace the existing update.dll included with any
Software Battlefield 4 Maplist Generator This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield 4 map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate
Software Battlefield 3 Maplist Generator This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield 3 map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate
Technical Moni8er I wrote a little utility program that runs on Windows for Mede8er media players. It is intended for newer X2 and X3 models that support Jukebox view. The utility essentially replaces the “Scan
Software Moni8er - A Mede8er Utility Moni8er is a utility for creating the necessary database files that the Mede8er device requires for its “Jukebox” view on X2 and newer models. If you’re not using jukebox view, you do
Commentary How can we screw you today? I’m amazed that more people don’t suffer from depression. I’m feeling it a bit at the moment, and I tend to get “Monday Blues” on the odd occasion. THAT sucks.
Personal The Thinking Game I suppose it’s a problem that a lot of people experience – I don’t want to claim any kind of uniqueness here. I mean, everybody is an individual (bleat), but I have
Technical iPod Annoyances I love my iPod. I mostly use it in the car and while I’m on the train / walking to/from the station. The biggest annoyance with it though, is that while I’
