February 2026

It's funny how collections evolve. I've been collecting things for a while, heck as a kid I collected pamphlets. What of? Anything really. In hindsight this must have annoyed many stores. This has led me to think of how you can define a collection. My current thoughts are;

1. Starting: You have a few of a certain thing in a certain genre but you don't see it as a collection.
2. Acknowledgement: You've decided you have a collection.
3. Organisation: You have enough (...)

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Don't get a job as a professional programmer if you want to stay healthy.

Wow. This one was short. Hmm... maybe I'll expand. (No joke intended, but maybe I shouldn't confess about that.)

Continuing on from my last rant I've had issues with weight management for some time. Having an active job helped with this, but things change and I eventually got a job as a programmer which involved spending 8+ hours a day sitting down. Sometimes we'd work all night. The I did for 12 years (...)

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OneDrive... oh how I dislike how it's got. It used to be seen as a drive, like the name, now it's trying to masquerade as a one stop storage and backup stop. Which is a shame, as it's horrible as the latter, but generally useful as the former. I've been using it since it was SkyDrive, and I've got the "SkyDrive Photos" to prove it, so I've been riding this horse for a while.

I was one of the few who got into the Windows Phone thing. I got one of the Windows 7 phones, which I still (...)

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Don't I have better things to do, I'm sure you are asking. Well I do, but the whole point of the reference is saving time kinda. Take the first Reference page. Space Shuttles. I frequently lose track of what one is what and this page, for one, has increased the chance of me actually remembering it this time, but most of all, it gives me a place to gather and share new information. This will save me time as I do have a bad habit of getting caught up in a research spiral over the same topics. (...)

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