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The afterlife is real because of mathematics and Brits got their first.

On my military history book, I’ve not read a James Holland book before this one.

How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia has given me so much homework.

As you might have read Postman is deprecating the Scratchpad feature.

“There is more than health to not being dead” The Socially Distanced Sports Bar recommended this a while back.

Hands in the air, I did a module at university based on this book for my BSc.

I’m not optimistic about the future of Artificial Intelligence.

A bit of a change.

This one was a recommendation from a colleague.

Back in 2017 I wrote about the podcasts I was listening to.

To quote CMB “It’s so sad man” I am led to believe this is a book about real events.

I finished book 3 of the George Smiley series a week or so ago.

Nearly three years ago I wrote about my ideas on Agile.

I was on my first podcast in years!

A new edition of Warhammer 40,000 is out.

Another John le Carré (I’ve started the next one before posting this) and it’s another banger.

I had the urge to read some John le Carré so I picked up the first book featuring George Smiley.

I played guitar for a while as a child and teenager.

Still on the military history kick.

I’ve been watching a lot of Storm of Steel for TooFatLardies related content.

Golden Demon As predicted in the previous post I didn’t win a Golden Demon.

I read Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton after reading Terence Eden’s review of it.

I’ve just played Everdell.

The Last Battle by Stephen Harding was a total impulse purchase.

Two weeks ago I went to my first Lardy Game Day at Herts of Lard 2023.

Book two of 2023 is Second City by Richard Vinen.

A year after my last post on Assassins Creed I have “finished” Valhalla.

Aim 3 of 2023 is to read more.

At work we use Azure for infrastructure and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to define it as code.

I mostly post about books, board games, and wargames.

At work, we have a weekly Code Gym.

Non stick pans annoy me.

Rather than resolutions, here are my aims for 2023: Paint more miniatures.

As always, I’ve listened to a lot of music this year.

I’ve been in Army Bosh Mode for a while now.

I’ve signed up for a Mastodon account.

As per my previous post, I destroyed my Ghost installation.

It’s alive!

It’s wild how it’s been 3 years since the last Sabaton album.

Last year I wrote about useful stuff to buy/use.

About 4 years ago I bemoanedthe heating in our house.

I managed to source an Xbox Series X late last year.

I think it’s fair to say that my interest in Warhammer 40k 8th edition peaked early and dropped off a cliff after playing a few games.

Some of the albums I have enjoyed in 2021.

Hotel Chocolat make this device called a Velvetiser.

I bought a 64GB 4K Apple TV recently and it’s magic.

I’m tinkering around with Clojure at the moment and have found the tooling to be quite nice.

I recently dropped my Pixel 3a perfectly flat on the bathroom floor and utterly shattered the screen.

I’ve continued making sourdough and have been tinkering with the recipe: The flour mix now will always have granary in.

I’ve bought a Clever Dripper and put the Aeropress and cafetière in the loft.