Aligorith's Lair

Ooh... earlier today, I was suddenly reminded that this year marks 20 years since I've been developing software in a professional / semi...

This is the latest in my ongoing series on investigating my setup for migrating to Linux. I've got 2 other posts that were supposed to g...

TBH, as crude as it sounds, I * DO * support the motion to place restrictions on groups of people protesting at the Bridge of Remembrance (a...

Yay!  I finally finished my "Lion Dance Minibricks" build this afternoon (after spending the last 3 weekend afternoons working on ...

It seems the triple malaises of early March have struck early this year 1) Cold + rainy weather 2) Kids, their parents, and "youth...

It's been fascinating checking in on the Kakapo nest cam from time to time these past few days.     AFAIK, this is the first time I'...

It's hard to believe that today marks 15 years since the Feb 22 Christchurch Quake in 2011, as 12:51pm! Nothing quite put that number in...

Wow, it's hard to believe that Pixar is 40 years old this year! I just stumbled across the following look into their archives!  A very n...

It's recently come to my attention that this whole "ethnicity" thing may not quite be what everyone seems to have been trying ...

Just added two new additions to my rotation/library of classical-music for re-listening this morning, after first hearing them earlier this ...

As if my current projects slate wasn't full enough, I did admittedly spend some time this weekend thinking how nice it would be to have ...

If you've been following the news from Christchurch in the past week (or my socials for that matter), you'd be aware that this week,...