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40K, Kill Team & Necromunda

It's easy to get overwhelmed by the rulesets, editions and aspirations to play everything and anything. I love the 2nd Edition (2e40k.com), and I'm driven to learn many of the newer games (to find people to play). I've picked up rules for most editions of 40K, and with the...

Perl & CPAN

It's been many years since I coded Perl. Probably 20 years. The last project was a web framework for a big Intranet/Extranet project. The project was delayed by the client, and a new project inserted before it - we needed something running fast, and as it used a Macromedia...

Wikis & Info Arch

I'm a very big fan of Wikis. Both as collaborative tools, but also as unstructured-structured information management tools. I live in the thin line between chaos and order, so having the ability to structure content, but have that structured content structured in an organic – albeit chaotic – way makes me feel...

March 2024

I've decided to make a concerted effort to update all of my web presences. It's difficult, as in spite of the minimal updates and apparent abandoned look to them all, there are actually countless draft articles - plus in my Notes.app, there's just as many again. The main factor...

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Mercury II Driver Issues

After many years of lusting after laser cutter, and lots of researching, I lucked out and picked up a GCC Laserpro Mercury II (M-40W). I spent the first few weeks going through the exciting fun of clunky driver issues. I’m Mac based, and being M1 based, can’t virtualise...

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OP-Z with Korg PadKontrol

I've been trying to get the Korg PadKontrol working with the OP-Z over USB for a week or two. Tested a few cables, and now tried a Kingston Nucleum USB hub. The manual is vague (and indeed a few folk on YouTube using them with the OP-Z and being very...

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