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Tech and Politics align I’ve been a fan of Cory Doctorow for many a year now, from his ardent activist and digital human rights work to gently easing myself into his sci-fi and cyberpunk fiction.

Echoing a more traditional adventure I was hesitant at first when I first saw the ‘Echoes’ trailer, assuming it was another AA studio attempt at a souls-like.

Dune Awakening (on a docked Steamdeck with controller) Ok, so it’s been a while.

My gaming desires The past day or so, I’ve had 3 games I’ve been waiting on for years turn up.

A comforting expanse of void space I’ve been playing some Void Crew co-operatively on my docked Steamdeck using a Dualsense controller and a pair of bluetooth microphone earbuds for comms.

The Sun is Up It has been well over 3 years since I last had the energy, time, mental fortitude to pen something for this blog.

The Dreamers Game It has to be said.

DREK (worthless, distasteful, trash, rubbish) I include this timeslice of my dysfunctional mind for posterity rather than anything else.

The Everchange This site has been worked and re-worked a number of times over the years.

Well its been a long while since I penned something here, I’ve been stuck in the wilderness of life, what with work and trying to make a difference when working from home - and keeping my gaming life going - since its primarily my main form of escapism fr…

Last year I went on a rant about how modern IT systems and necessary skillsets were eroding at my capacity to deliver my usual jack-of-all-trades ability to provide help.

The Forgotton Fruit I was diddling one day with my gemini capsule, using it as an orbital slingshot to warp into a space lane full of other peoples worlds and musings, when I glanced up from my screen and noticed a weird little box on the top shelf of my…

This week has me back exploring the dream of having a workable but easy to configure tiling window manager setup on my machine.

Free and Open Source Software [FOSS]and ethical services I use in my digital life.

Over a long period of time, I tired and become exasperated with the ‘free’ services I was using to manage my ever-expanding digital life.

Interests in simplification I’ve been keen on the Gemini Protocol for a while now, watching from a distance, soaking up what info I could.

Technology has escaped me The other day I realised why, having been an IT professional for 3 decades, I find myself shipwrecked on a technological island without the power to reach or help other people.

Cory Doctorow I’ve been taking more and more notice of sci-fi cyberpunk writer Cory Doctorow.

COMPROMISE I have spent the best part of the past year and a half, possibly more, trying to change my entire digital life.

It was only a few shorts months ago that I was proclaiming 2020 as the Cyberpunk future I’d always dreamt about since I was a teen in the early ’80s.

The road to capture Life I’ve been trying to tame my chaotic digital life for quite some time much of it tied into novel ideas turned into costly dot coms, todoist, trello, evernote etc.

A fortuitous purchase, a fumbled away team expedition In the heady days of November 2008, on a PSX (the original “original” name for the first Playstation console) gaming mailing list, a fellow gamer posted a link to a coupon for a cheap Dell Inspiron Mini

Mastodon Mastodon is often a valuable source of interest and inspiration.

There are a number of Gopher clients available a number of which can be web browser add-ons to allow you to access gopherspace using your current “window” to the Internet.