Category: Personal
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The tech behind the blog.
This is not like other blog posts that you will read. How am I so sure? Well, what it is being written on first of all. You are reading the words that have been hammered out at the key face of the AlphaSmart 3000. What’s one of them Trev? I hear you ask. Well, it’s…
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Korg NTS -1 first impressions
Korg Nutekt NTS-1 Digital synth kit – An early overview. Just as a little background to start with, I have played synths and keyboards for years. I love mucking about with an envelope in ways that would get you ejected from a Post Office. And all of those posts you see on social media saying…
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Bad Credits
I posted on social media last week a story about a writer who was not given the credit for an idea that he had that was eventually made into a film. (Link is at the end of this article) Sadly this is not an unusual story in the entertainment business or any business for that…
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Who doesn’t like free stuff?
Who doesn’t like free stuff? Fancy getting my children’s book ‘Fetlock Bones and The Curious Case of the Budgie Smugglers’ for the glorious price of nothing? Well for a time you can, from noon today for a 5 day period you can download it free. Noon today (6th May 2020 until 11th May.) If you…
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In and out, up and down.
Originally posted on my old blog on September 29th 2019. So, hi there. How are you? It’s nice to see you. Last week I asked people who follow my Twitter account to vote on something, I wanted opinions on what sort of comedy people wanted to see. Overwhelmingly the answer was that people wanted more…
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Bang for your buck. Or Euro, or …
Originally posted on my old blog on November 4th 2016. As I write the notes for this piece there is an advert on the radio telling me about cheap fireworks. Now, I can’t speak for any of you, but when I am buying potentially fatal explosives “cheap” is not a word that I want to apply. “Safe”, “Reliable” and “Not…
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Ideas, what, why, when and how?
Originally posted on my old blog on October 29th, 2016. (This was written some time ago, in fact, it was one of the first things that I wrote when I decided to just start writing again for the hell of it. This blog is the product of that plan, and there is definitely more to…
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Town Planning?
Originally posted on my old blog on October 3rd, 2016. I live in a town called Heckmondwike, you have probably never heard of it. It is like a hipster town “ I live in Heckmondwike, and you probably haven’t heard of it yet.” There are people that have lived here their entire lives who haven’t…
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State of play.
Originally posted on my old blog on September 24th, 2016. This afternoon I decided that I wanted to play a game that I had not played for a while. I put the disc in, UPDATE NEEDED. To any modern gamer, this is to be expected really, but it is always galling when you do not…
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Anger doesn’t have to be taxing.
Originally posted on my old blog September 22nd 2016. Why are people so angry these days? If it isn’t someone shouting abuse in the street at people walking past, or toothless living stereotypes on daytime TV shows trying to decide who slept with who, without giving any of the salacious details. If not that, then…
