Alright folks, get ready for a bird’s-eye view unlike anything you’ve seen before. We’re not talking drones, planes, or even satellites. We’re talking World View β a company that’s taking us to the stratosphere with some seriously cool balloon technology. These Ain’t Your Average Party Balloons First off, these balloons are massive. We’re talking the length of a football field! The material? Not latex, that’s for sure. It’s a super…
10/02/2024
Maybe Starfieldβs core lack of personality marks a deeper malaise, a sign that all the polish and promise in the world canβt save a game with a busted soul.
10/02/2024
Site of a horrific genocide not that long ago? Well, now it’s set to be Britain’s official dumping ground for desperate folks seeking safety. How bloody noble of us. This isn’t a policy, it’s a moral bankruptcy sale. ‘Buy one act of desperation, get a lifetime of trauma free!’
27/08/2022
A few months back I started practicing Tai Chi Yang style. I’ve found awesome Sifu’s, and a wonderful friendly, local, class. currently I’m working on learning the Yang Style 18 Form movements, so I’ve created this guide to help me (& you) through the steps. Tai Chi Yang 18 Form Introduction Tai Chi Yang style 18 Form is one of the most popular tai chi forms. It’s also known as…
15 things that you didn’t know about blockchain 1. Blockchain technology can help reduce fraudulent activities. Blockchain technology creates a secure, decentralized database of transactions that can be used to track anything of value. This could potentially help reduce fraudulent activities, as it would be more difficult for criminals to alter the records. Additionally, the transparency of the blockchain could also help to deter fraud, as all transactions would be…
09/06/2022
I love smileys and emoticons, feel they go beyond the traditional puntuation, and help express the tone, scinerity, and sarcasm of the words, so they can be read as intended. So I was so stoked to find these that work within WordPress! Warning: my posts going forward will certainly include more little smiling yellow faces π icon text text full text icon full text π π π π π :-D…
11/12/2021
Watching The Beatles, Get Back… best telly that I’ve watched in years
05/11/2021
I’ve swam with humpback whales, turtles, stingray, & sharks. Traveled up the Mekong to see Irwady doliphins, been out on a couple of dolphin and whale safari’s where I’ve had the privilege of seeing pods of dolphons 50+ in size, and Southern Bryde’s Whales. Orca have been on my bucket list for a long time, and in the last couple of weeks I’ve had the pleasure of seeing them three…
24/04/2020
How time flies when you’re having fun, we’re personally really blessed to live in a safe bit of the World, with more than enough space, and access to nature… thoughts with those in more challenging environments. I’ve regrettably bought a digital copy of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, would have really liked a hard copy, but you know things been what they are… sure there will be enough cheap versions knocking…
27/03/2020
Terence McKenna’s Time Wave Zero concrescence, time speeding up So much happening hard to believe it’s nearly the end of March Maybe this is time passing quickly to compensate for the slow passage that will commence from today 23rd March 2021, when we as a family began our COVID19 self isolation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus Everything seems crazy and beyond satire with Trump, and Borris on other side of the Atlantic. Civil Wars,…
Hard to believe it’s actually the year 2020! It’s a date used historically in sci-fi, and particularly a Cyberpunk RPG game I loved as a teen… so excited for the Cyberpunk 2077 title that’s coming in September! Games I’ve been playing: Modern Warfare – today reached level 155 in Season 1; heaps of fun, but the updates have been a nightmare having to download DLC packs multiple times Sekiro –…
06/12/2019
Today I experienced my first bricked Solid State Drive. Bad news; is that I lost months worth of finished propensity models. Good news; it was at work, nothing personal… and all backed up to OneDrive π I thought they lasted close to forever, so I’ll be sure to backup everything this weekend, suggest you all do the same!
So @Twitter had given me an update, the issue is someone is trying to hack my Twitter / Blog / Gmail accounts; so my email wasn’t updating on my handset??? Now have access to email and can see that twitter have suspended @GamerGeekNews for ‘multiple copyright infringement notifications’, for tweeting links to TechRadar pages that I never had any interest in π I’ve removed TechRadar from my feed, & apologised…
27/11/2019
5 hours or so ago my Twitter account was suspended π Usually it gives me a prompt to enter my phone number… but not today! I have been suspended a couple of times lately due to re-tweets of ‘how to stream some sporting event for free’; if this is the case again I’ll have to look into how I can prevent my bot from sharing those in the future. Let’s…
I’ve curated my Twitter feed to keep me up to date with my interests, and I’m stoked that other people enjoy the same things that I do & decide to follow my feed too. I cover a variety of technology, data science, and gaming interests… things that I like. Now before I drop make this point don’t get me wrong; I love animals. I’ve been a vegetarian, sometimes vegan, for…
02/09/2019
Just finished watching Good Omens; and as much as I’ve enjoyed it I realised my greatest joy was that for all these years since I read the novel I’ve been pronouncing Aziraphale correctly π
04/08/2019
I’ve been back to Blighty for July to see whΔnau, except for catching up with old friends for a gamer night my only digital fix has been DOTA Underlords. Then to postpone my gaming and gym training even more I injured my right trigger finger Monday Tuesday π Geek highlight of my trip was picking up a few old toys: Sony MiniDisk player original GameBoy (couldn’t find my GB Advance)…
04/06/2019
Nothing of significance, but cool Twitter numbers 3.3 Million organic impressions in 28 days My first 200 Thousand day of organic impressions in a single day and I’m stoked to now have 10 Thousand followers Thank you to each of you for suffering my stream of consciousness
04/06/2019
The latest Pratchett, and Gaiman, TV adaptation – Good Omens Good Omens, the genius of Pratchett’s with the twist of Gaiman, a collaboration made in heaven & hell. I find it hard to believe this was released in 1990, I’d been reading and collecting Pratchett novels before then, and this was my first intro to Gaiman So now 29 years later we finally have this high budget adaptation of the…
notepad plus plus for Linux I use notepad++ at work on a windows machine, I find it great for taking notes, and editing SQL scripts on the go. For a long time Geany has been my goto Linux file editor, but it might now get more limited use in the future now that notepad++ is available in Linux, via snap π Crazy too, that I think this is my first…
