Turning my sad gaming PC into a media server
Death, taxes, and media servers.
Posts tagged "personal"
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Returning to owning things in a streaming world
In 2011, I sold my CD collection; in 2026 I bought it back again. (Well, the good bits.)
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Some things I’ve been enjoying: August 2026
My latest favourite TV shows, books, games, and how my garden grows.
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2025: The year in lists
Some things I enjoyed this year.
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Touching grass (and shrubs, and flowers, and dog)
I've been outside.
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The blog questions challenge
This takes me back to my teenage years, doing Friday Five on my blog and later on the sets of questions on LiveJournal that were known as memes. Thanks Sally for the tag! <3
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My month of rest and relaxation
Over the last three and a half weeks I’ve become such a potato that I’m considering changing my name to Maris Piper
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I repaired my Steam Deck and it was fine, actually
Hooray for right to repair!
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2024: The year in lists
It’s Boxing Day and I’m a small pile on the sofa. We successfully Did Christmas at ours this year, and I never want to see another mince pie (until next year).
So, what better time than now to look back on the year?
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Some things I've been enjoying recently (November 2024 edition)
Recent favourite TV shows, games, art, food and books.
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The art in everyday life
You don’t have to paint the Sistine Chapel to bring art into the world.
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liveness probe
After an initial burst of blogging energy January followed by a series of automated posts featuring good things I’d read recently, it fell off a cliff towards the end of March. I didn't get bored, I promise!
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Some things I've been enjoying recently
Recent favourite TV shows, theatre, art, food and books.
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2023: The year in lists
Last year's roundup post was good fun, so I decided I'd do another one this year! I feel like I blinked in April and suddenly it was December.
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Beautiful musical chaos
When I tell people I'm in a choir, they often ask what kind. Where do I even begin?
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Painting the whole beetle: an adventure in learning to learn
I'm not very good at being bad at things. In fact, I have a track record of giving up on things if I'm not immediately good at it. (So I guess I'm good at giving up on things?) This is a tale of learning to persevere and accepting the effort that goes into learning new skills.
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2022: The year in lists
I don't usually do these end-of-year reflection posts, but at a time where I feel like I'm finally starting to hit flat land again after a year of climbing hills, it seems like a nice thing to do, and a way for me to reflect on my own achievements.