Index on Dalliance

The country’s drought is finally ended by the Undertones set at Beautiful Days and as one by-election ends, another begins.

I spent a week and a bit in Mallorca, Burnham started his new government,and Farage is up against Count Binface.

The Prime Minister falls, Doctor Who falls, Android falls, The Free Internet falls,and I do a bit of painting and get ready for an holiday.

The local elections lead to the government falling apart and a new by-election.

I’m late this month because of spending some timein Amsterdam for a developers conference, whilethe UK went to the polls in local elections andthe Strait of Hormuz continues to be blockaded.

We did the end-of-course improv show and made stories about love and magic,I deleted Google off of my phone by installing GrapheneOS,I did most of the rebuild of the camper-van ready for summer,ranted about Age-Gating the internet,and Trump started a war…

With Google soon to make Android even less free it’s time to extend my degoogling practise and see how much Android we can remove from my phone.

The kids are not okay, and lots of people seem to think it’s the kid’s phones and social media that’s doing it so lets simply ban kids from social media.

The new Bedroom Lights are pretty and I spent the monthbuilding my media archive on Jellyfin while the Greens win Gorton And Denton, the AI marches on, and yet more new wars.

Wishing y’all a loving St Valentine’s day.

I restarted doing some weekly improv stuff, (there will be a show in March you should come) Also went to a Hitch Hikers Guide show,and explored and rejected the Vivaldi browser.

Happy New Year!

So farewell then 2025.

It’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.

The bedroom work continued all month long, nearing an end now though.

Been doing physio exercises to build the strengthand range of movement back into my healing fracturedwrist while sleeping on the sofabed as the buildersmake progress rebuilding the bedroom.

My fractured wrist out of the cast but still weakand painful, work on renovating the bedroom begins,and the world slips further in to fascism.

I spent a month on the sofa watching TV with a broken wrist, while the rest of the country was plastering the countryin poorly drawn flags and persecuting human rights.

The campervan conversion hit some unexpected difficultiesbut worked well enough to get me to Good Vibrations Societyfestival where I was entranced by a harpist and then broke my wrist.

A stopped watch doesn’t count steps even once a day,I’m doing government bureaucracy, Doctor Who and 3d models while the government puts peaceful groups on terrorist ban lists.

Medical issues, an improv show, first festival ofthe summer, and some work on the Starship project.

I made a new Observers cartoon, there were local elections, and Trump’s Tariffs seemed crazy.

Microcamper, Improv, and economic chaos - Mar 2025 I got a van and have converted it into a microcamper,mostly a half arsed temp job till the professionalscan do it properly in the Summer.

Played a gig at a birthday party,watched a comedian do a gig,fixed some things, did more improvand got a keyboard for my birthday.

First time playing any of the Loopy set, out at Sparkle Fest, a friend’s birthday festival.

Happy new year everybody!

A new era begins!

I had half the week off to do writing and 3d-modelling and play games and meanwhileTrump won the election, and Bluesky gets a boost from subsequent Twitter-Quitters.

The end of another Improv course, motor related discussion, spending a week in VR in No Man's Sky, while we have a new Conservative leader, a new Labour Budget, and a new American Election.

The bathroom took all month, but it is finished.

The country's racist rioters run amok, the internet enshitifies further, and work is half done on my new bathroom

On election night itself my bathroom flooded, thanks Starmer.

I released a new “Observers” cartoon using the new engine, there was a whole farce of an election campaign, and the UK votes today!

Spent a couple of days at Small World Festival this month, dancing and enjoying sun with friends.

Buckling down and getting on with some work, making progress with the VR sci-fi project, big changes to my web-hosting, local elections happen while the world continues it’s political chaos.

The world is falling apart and war ravages the globe, but I visited an aviary and spent much of the month making a 3d stage/lightshow on which to do a new format tarot show.

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January is too cold and dark so best spent hibernating and hermitting and building something.

I have had a ball this month programming the PineTime I got around christmas time.

Spent the first half of the month sick and rewiring all the lights in my flat then there was Xmas and new year and now it’s 2024 already.

A lovely weekend break in Devon leaves me sick for the rest of the month, but I made a Pistol Whip level and both the home secretary and Open AI boss got fired.

A new VR headset to play with, and apparently impossible programming problems solved, against a terrible political background of war and atrocity.

Loving Godot, but I have a requirement that seems currently difficult to impossible to do: Rendering a 3D Stereoscopic 360 degree view of the scene.

The building-work is basically done and I saw a nice gig.

Apparently SteamVR might not be the way to go on Linux, and there’s this other implementation of the OpenXR system that Valve invented called “Monando”.

I got rained on a lot again!

The country’s drought finally ends as I go camping three weekends out of four.

First time playing any of the Loopy set, out at Sparkle Fest, a friend’s birthday festival.

Twitter goes dark, Reddit closes it’s API, Facebook joining Fedi.

Just as everyone is is getting used to the idea that we can share a fediverse between micro-bloging software like Mastodon or Misskey or Frendica, that big old website Reddit has a capitalism-induced fit of user-hostility (Don’t visit, there’s a strike to…