Category Archives: General
Cycle “Adventures” Volume 145
Not as busy as usual, but should have had a few more at the end. More about that later. In the first clip we see a guy on a bike (I refuse to call them cyclists unless they follow the … Continue reading
Cycle “Adventures” Volume 144
The first clip shows a guy on a bike jumping a red light, but if he’d been on the pavement he’d have been legal to do so because it’s a shared cycle path. I’ve often thought of this myself, especially … Continue reading
Talking Bollocks – The Start of Vlogging
After creating a series of 7 short Twitch streams daily, to vlog my thoughts after early morning shifts and collating them into an omnibus edition for YouTube and LBRY I’ve decided to make more vlogs. Not streamed but more organised … Continue reading
Crypto Update
The story so far: Joined Brave Rewards in December, started with other Cryptocurrency in January. £10 initially put into Bitcoin via Coinbase using debit card, some sent to Bittrex, some sent to a home hosted wallet. Another £10 in Bitcoin … Continue reading
User Registration
I’ve made user registration a bit easier, though totally non-standard, which I hope will keep the spambots at bay. No need for a Captcha any more, just click the link under Blogroll to the right. I’ll keep playing when I … Continue reading
SQRL Support
This site now has preliminary support for SQRL login and registration. I’ve tested login, and linking to existing accounts, but I don’t know if registration works with new accounts yet, because I only have one SQRL identity 😉 Anyway, the … Continue reading
Ko-fi
Definitely not going to spam this. Let’s see how much attention it gets from ambient visibility 😉 https://www.ko-fi.com/ponder
LBRY and Cryptocurrency
Thanks to Dave Jones of EEVBlog I discovered the blockchain based content platform, LBRY so have been giving it a try. I signed up and went through the verification process for the rewards programme. The reason for this was because … Continue reading
8x8x8 LED Cube Complete!
I can’t believe how smoothly this build went. The component board was almost problem free, just the usual socket/IC pin alignment issues but of course untested so I completed one grid, as shown in the previous post, to test and … Continue reading
8x8x8 LED Cube Build – WIP!
My Christmas present from my good lady wife this year was a Hobby Components 8x8x8 LED Cube Kit. Today I started to build it. I was originally going to live stream on Twitch but had a feeling I’d be interrupted … Continue reading