babychaos's blog

There are a handful of films I can quote almost verbatim. Dodgeball, Princess Bride, the original Star Wars trilogy , and Clue!.

This is mainly for Rob, in response to his "I can't get back to sleep" Facebook post last night.

After the success of the first bike build, back in winter, I've now done my second. Again it's in response to the new environment, though this time a bit more fun.

Just before Christmas I had a vivid learning experience on the bike...namely how in wet, downhill conditions rim brakes on bikes are simply not that good. Once I'd picked myself up, and done the ride-of-shame home, I decided that I needed to sort out a proper winter bike sooner rather than later.

2024 is hopefully going to be a year focused around settling into Harrogate. Previous years tend to end up themed;

In 2020, when Google Music was taken down and replaced by the awful, awful Youtube Music...where a number of features were sudenly locked behind a paywall, I committed to having my own music hosting, rather than rely on a 3rd party.

As part of the pre-move house tidy, we've been getting rid of stuff that we simply don't use, or won't use in the new house. For may part, I've been going through the many crates of stuff I shipped here when we moved from Burghfield Common. I had a huge amount of stuff that had simply not been touched in a decade or more. I've ended up sticking a fair number of items on eBay...I assumed that most of it would go for pennies, however I've had a few stand-out blinders.

For a few years in the 2000's, weekends consisted of a prolonged playthrough of the campaign mode of Descent : Journeys in the Dark. Byrnie, Evil Matt, Aggroboy and myself would meet up every weekend and play though 1-3 of the missions. Absolutely no idea how much time we sank into it, but I remember it being nails hard, even as the power levels of the characters went up and up. We must have sunk hours into it.

What's the best/safest way to get rid of old Hard Drives?

Today we put our house on the market, and we're planning to move upto Yorkshire later this year, pending a number of things happening in the correct order.