Angry Beanie

A few weeks ago I was able to get along to the Wings Over Shellharbour 2026 air show.

So as mentioned in my previous post, Wings Over Shellharbour is coming next week and I thought I would take a Roll About to test the gear I’m planning on using to document the day.

Wings Over Shellharbour is coming!

So I dual boot my computer.

Pondering getting into photography competitions.

Soooo, I may have accidentally rm'd something that I wasn't meant to and I've had to rebuild the instance hosting this blog.

Got out of the house today and went down to Bass Point to have lunch with Awesome Wife.

So we're day two into the new year and I am cautiously optimistic about entering day three.

If you're reading this, then I have been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding the release of ALL of the Star Trek Ships as Lego kits.

I was going through my library of photos and I came across these from 2022.

https://themarkup.org/on-borrowed-time/2025/10/14/is-the-patient-black-check-this-box-for-yes “That always raised a flag for me,” he says.

The below is a thread I posted to Bluesky and Mastodon off the back of a discussion I had with a mother at my local doctors surgery.

Okay so it's been almost two months since my last post, I figured I should post SOMETHING at least.

Wasn’t sure whether to put this in the Tech and Disability feed or just the general feed, eh I'll put it in both (footpaths count as technology don't they?).

I was struggling for something to blog about when I went onto LinkedIn (I know, I really shouldn't) and I saw another post about how the age of the API has passed, and we're all going to be using AI Agents to talk to each other instead.

* So for todays entertainment I decided to test out a couple of things.

So about a week ago I was fiddling with the drone and I wanted to test out the way point flight mode that comes with it.

https://rexasi-pro.spindoxlabs.com/ What is it: It’s a project that ostensibly wants to develop a “Swarm AI Navigation/Self Driving” system for power wheelchairs.

So I was recently able to get my hands on a drone.

Took a few pictures of the local duck flock when I went on a roll about the other day.

Part of the fun that is needing a mobility aid (be it a wheelchair or walking frame or even just a stick) is the lottery you play when you leave the house to go to an event, or even just to the shops.

Okay so today I had plans for doing a good chunk of work on the new Front End for the Angry Beanie website (the current one is a mess of "oh how do you do this in react/js?"

So I finally managed to get out of the house with the camera for a roll about with the power chair.

So it appears the blogging appears to be on the rise again.

Just a quick update on the self hosting blog that I wrote a little while back.

A couple of weeks ago I was testing out a table mount for my camera that would allow me to put the camera in the overhead position, or mount lights for different shots etc.

So I finally got around to releasing that Wheelchair Photography video that I’d been agonising over.

What effect is AI going to have on Disability?

So yesterday I actually sat down and recorded a 7 minute video about using extension tubes to turn my 50mm lens into a macro lens.

So I was browsing through Linkedin (I know, it’s a terrible habit) when I came across a post about an LLM that I wanted to have a look at (hush).

Okay so I recently decided to properly try and setup a home network with alternatives to the various free services that I use currently.

So I'm in an interesting position at the moment.

I was scrolling along Tiktok the other day when I came across this video In the video, disability advocate Shane Hryhorec takes us through a tour of a very impressive public toilet and shower facility down at Largs Bay in Port Adelaide, South Australia.

So Tesla held what I think was meant to be a big reveal for their new Robotaxi project.

So I started writing this post earlier and it very quickly turned into a stream of consciousness blast about everything that I'm feeling at the moment, and, while cathartic, I thought I would put something a little bit more filtered up here in public.

I don't know about you but sometimes I just need to take a picture.

I've added a new album to my photography here with some of the photos I took on my recent Roll About I've also created a short video using some of them which you can view here:

So it's been a while and I thought I would do a post with some of the photos I've taken on my Roll Abouts.

I have an Oculus Rift S.

Soooo it's been a while.

So after a comment by someone over on Mastodon I had another look at my Flickr account.

I recently set myself a little project to try and build a work flow that would allow to me produce the following: Podcast Videos: It seems to be all the rage these days so I thought I would have a look at what would be needed to make a Podcast available v…

Looking at the stories I've picked out for this weeks News post I'm thinking I should deep dive a bit more on some of the topics presented here.

So it's been a bit of a busy week in the world and the stories I'm presenting below are just a sample of what's going on.

Apologies for missing last week, lack of spoons etc etc.

Almost didn't get this one out today but managed to sit down for a few minutes and get it sorted.

Robots, Launchers and Flying high for this update.

Welcome to the third instalment of the Tech and Disability News from Around the Globe blog thingy.

Well folks, Elon Musk and Neuralink have announced the first human implantation of the device that they're calling "Telepathy".

Welcome to the second Tech and Disability News from Around the Globe.