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Fixin’ to kludge, again. (Geekery)

Dunno why I post the ‘geekery’ warning, I mean, it’s on here. It’s going to be house, car, computing or NHS. Music is relegated to…
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More techery geekery

So, I have so far failed in my quest to lay my hands on a Slim Devices slimp3 (or any of the later Squeezebox with…
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Post nights geek

…I started this post while I was on nights, so…err… yeah, make of that what you will. Now I’m sleep deprived (or depraved) instead. So,…
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That special hell (caution, moderate geekery ahead)

There’s a moment as you’re hodging together archaic, or at least well obsolete technology that you think ‘oh ah, maybe using new stuff would be…
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More tin-foil hats.

So. Plastic, right. I’ve never been terribly fond of plastic packaging. Particularly because it’s often not sporting the appropriate recycle logo, which means that it…
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Dear Scan

I started using your site 13 years ago, or there abouts. And whilst I’ve made odd purchases elsewhere, I’ve always returned to your company. I’d…
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The Infamous Drelf

So, I wanted a solution to putting my laptop somewhere when I’m using the big-and-grotty 19″ LCD*. It’s good enough for while I’m recording podcasts,…
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Overreaction

So, I made a shopping list this morning. Our lists are things of great beauty. Well, okay, not that. But our lists are carefully thought…
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Smug was foolish then.

So, last night I finally got around to getting mediatomb to transcode FLAC files into WAV and throw that at the media box in the…
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the perils of early adoption

It’s fairly rare that I’m an early adopter. Not for want of trying, but instead because for the most part I can’t afford to get…