Sunday, August 17, 2025

Picasa Replacement Project - Update 4 - Roadmap + Component Breakdown

›
The other day, I went through and did an initial breakdown of the components that would need to be developed as part of my "Picasa Repl...

Phone Migration Notes

›
This weekend, I've finally been looking into finally transferring across to using the new phone I'd gotten a few months ago (*). As ...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Public Transit Audio-Only Recordings - A Fun Travel Keepsake

›
A discussion with a friend yesterday about portable audio recorders had me thinking about something fun to do while travelling that I only r...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Reaction to "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUD's" - i.e. Thought Provoking Ideas on Reframing the UI / UX of AI

›
I just read a very thought provoking blog post from Geoffrey Litt, based on some ideas pitched some 30-ish years ago by Mark Weiser Blog Tit...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Picasa Replacement Project - Update 3 - Some Easy Wins

›
In the latest installment of my ongoing series of posts about my current "Picasa Replacement Project", a few days ago, I managed ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Picasa Replacement Project - Update 2 - Initial Working Parser

›
It's taken a few more days than originally planned, but I've just reached a first concrete milestone: The rudimentary parser for Pic...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Late night musings on Pixar's relative "downfall" in recent years...

›
What follows are a bunch of late night ramblings + musings about things I can't help wondering after seeing seeing a YT rabbithole analy...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Picasa Replacement Project - Day 1 Status Report

›
Following Monday's incident, I have decided to urgently bring forward + accelerate my plans to start developing a replacement solution t...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Fixing Picasa3 suddenly freezing on Windows10 (July 2025)

›
This evening, Picasa suddenly started freezing on Windows 10 here.  (Yes, it has been officially discontinued for years now... but for my wo...
Friday, July 4, 2025

A Piece of Old Christchurch History - First "Jade Garden" Location

›
Many people know this old building as the old "Canterbury Public Library" building For me, this was and always will be: "The...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

WhioDoc Updates - Version 1.1 just released

›
I've just released a minor update to WhioDoc to add some clarity + tweaks around the formatting of range-specifiers, and guidance on how...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Blast from the Past: Cathay Pacific 747 Cardboard Model Plane / Glider

›
When doing some long overdue cleaning of one of our bookshelves yesterday, I ran into the following fun little guy: IIRC, it's a Cathay ...