Personal

I was thinking recently about computers, computing and programming. I realised that this year marks forty four years since I bought my first computer, a Dragon 32. I had wanted to get a ZX Spectrum previously, but they were in short supply and so I waited until the Dragon 32 appeared on the market. In 1981 a shipmate of mine who had a ZX80 and had just bought the new ZX81. These were the first personal computers I had seen, tiny plastic boxes with the worst keyboards ever invented. They weren’t that cheap but the build quality certainly felt like it. Plug them into the TV and hook a cassette player load a bit of code and a whole new world opened up before our eyes. ...

Blogging As some may be aware I am quite a quiet fan of blogs and blogging. I like the low profile old school method of posting news information and updates. No big companies in the background milking our content for the advertising cow. Just ordinary people posting their thoughts and ideas. Sometimes mundane, sometimes informative but always human. AI blogging will come I suppose eventually, I think it may already be here in some form, though I haven’t been mithered by it, yet! I won’t be partaking of it in any way shape or form. Someone mentioned in their blog they had stopped using M-Dash ‘’— " punctuation as it is oft used by AI, I have no idea, also no reason not to believe them. ...

Over the last few years I have read and listened to many books. I had kept a list of them on Goodreads site. Then one day in a fit of pique I decided to delete my account and of course the list. However I later decided it was more useful than I had thought at the time, and so opened a new account, reimporting my previously exported list not reimporting or maybe it did, it was hard to tell. ...

After some thought and because I am now posting these notes as well as normal posts, I have decided to revert to a landing page for my blog. I think it is clearer and a cleaner access point for my notes and posts.

Finally got around to setting up a custom domain, not hard but quite involved and required some serious concentration and patience, due to DNS record delays.

I am apt to forget to post in my blog as I am often to distracted by the real world and so it slips my mind. So a note to self (like it will make a difference) post something, anything!

March Of Time March is nearly over and European Summer Time is just a few days away, and I haven’t posted on here again. I missed February completely and so I was determined not to fail March. To that end here is a little post about nothing in particular to fill the gap. To be fair though March went by quite quickly, I guess the depressing news cycle helped pass the time with its constant sabre rattling and doom scrolling headlines. Try as I might I find it hard not get caught up in it, mostly in the hope there is some good news and the end of the madness is on the horizon. Of course it isn’t these things go on and on, powered by ego, greed, and stupidity. So no end in sight. ...

I feel like I should post something but I really don’t feel like. I don’t feel I have anything positive to post about in terms of CG or anything else at the moment. So this is in lieu of a post proper, a little note.

Dark Days This year has not got off to a particularly good start, geopolitically at least, and do not worry this is not going to focus on that, it is only the basis for my current state of well-being. I am not one to get involved with online discussions that involve anything much beyond my interest in Computer Graphics and 3D modelling in particular. That is not to say I am happy with what is happening, it is just that, for the sake of sanity, I am avoiding it as much as possible right now. ...

End Of An Era For a long time now I have been meaning to delete my Artstation account. One reason I kept it around was that it was a link source of some images on my other website, the other was a lack of impetus. I haven’t used the place in a very long time. Posting just once in the last twelve months, and then only because I hadn’t posted; very meta I know. ...