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Raspberry Pi video art installation

Posted on February 16, 2023 by blogmywiki

My daughter makes video art and needed a simple solution for showing one of her pieces continually in a loop. I used an old Raspberry Pi model B for this. I just realised that the only place I had documented … Continue reading →

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Why did 1973 matter to Classic Mac OS?

Posted on January 17, 2023 by blogmywiki

So I was clearing off an old 350MHz graphite Apple Macintosh G4 Server which had OS 10.4.9 on it, and decided to put Mac OS 9.2 on it for the lolz. This was a mistake, as I had been intending … Continue reading →

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This link may be unsafe

Posted on December 16, 2022 by blogmywiki

Or: The Straw That Broke This Camel’s Back Elon Musk changed Twitter bio links to Mastadon to http instead of https – or blocked them. He is a free speech absolutist free marketeer who doesn’t believe in free speech he … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Ghost Story: The Tedious Case of Room 623

Posted on December 15, 2022 by blogmywiki

Had an idea for a story while walking the dog. I was going to abandon it, or at the very least change the narrator’s preposterous name, when I discovered that Agatha Christie wrote over a dozen stories about a man … Continue reading →

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Social migration

Posted on October 30, 2022 by blogmywiki

This is not intended to be another long take on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, heaven knows enough has been said about that, but a few thoughts as I mothball my Twitter account… I have long-disliked Musk. He’s not a good … Continue reading →

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