Aligorith's Lair

With the unsettled spring weather this week (following a really nice and sunny settled period over the past week or two), we've had a nu...

Last year, I posted a short tutorial about a failed attempt at getting a stable wifi connection on HP Envy 17 under Linux (Mint 15) with th...

This evening, I stumbled across the following video of Tung Choi Street (in Mong Kok, Hong Kong), otherwise known as "Goldfish Street...

On what could be best described as a bit of a bad day (*) - matched by the gloomy brooding rainclouds, it could be said that these little gu...

 Forget Me Not flowers in our garden - Photo from this afternoon

Over the past few days, I've been having a bit of fun randomly thumping the upright piano we've got lying around gathering dust. Sin...

Last Sunday, the weather was really nice and sunny here in Christchurch - perfect for a walk around Hagley Park. As usual, parking was a bit...

This evening, I came across an entertaining talk by Robert Hodgin at the Eyeo Festival this year, about his work on flocking simulations. ...

Despite a cold change and predicted rain during the afternoon, last night's sunset was still somewhat decent (though obviously not as im...

Here's are some shots of the tail end of the sunset this evening, which I almost missed completely. Annoyingly though, when I did see it...

Over the weekend, we cleared out our stash of old/dead batteries, which we'd been storing up to dump in one go, since IIRC there are var...