Rick's b.log - ALL entries

Complete list of all entries...

• 2008/06/21 - Vanishing birds, B.Log, bouncy castles, a piccy of me, and "meretricious".
• 2008/06/22 - Pop-bang-fizzle monitor, sane recycling, scanner fun, and "abate".
• 2008/06/27 - Brownouts, Aiko? (my computer's name), and "unkempt".
• 2008/06/29 - My geek score, AZERTY keyboards, the pond chicken lives, more about maïze, and "consternation".
• 2008/06/30 - Domesticated apes (by Éspaces Vertes job) and "implore".
• 2008/07/02 - My geek test - results, maïze (again), and "principle" vs "principal".
• 2008/07/04 - A letter too late, and "incompetent".
• 2008/07/05 - The Tour de France (with some nice pictures), and "parsomonious".
• 2008/07/06 - Daft Recycler restriction, and "nowadays".
• 2008/07/08 - Tetanus injections with extras, why Frenchies don't pull sickies, and RadioTimes available in France.
• 2008/07/09 - An ANPE meet, Minix3, YouTube, 'if you have nothing to fear you have nothing to hide', and "propensity".
• 2008/07/11 - Eggs and baskets when on the job hunt, why I don't like babies, and "disseminate".
• 2008/07/15 - Playing around - a nice photo of me NOT sitting in front of a computer!
• 2008/07/16 - The geek job falls through, what options now?
• 2008/07/18 - The frozen-products job - first meeting, オタク (otaku), and "arduous".
• 2008/07/21 - The frozen-projects job - recruitment test, nifty networking, idiot drivers, and "frenetic".
• 2008/07/22 - Field fire! And "reciprocal".
• 2008/07/24 - The frozen-products job - test results, my address is secret, ADSL maybe-baby, and "discombobulate".
• 2008/07/26 - Euro vs Franc vs Old Francs, Windows defrags, Windows 2 (OMG!!!), and "emulation".
• 2008/07/27 - Field fire - the culprit, and adventures in SW radio.
• 2008/07/29 - A ginormous caterpillar, air-stream skies, and "placid".
• 2008/07/31 - Bouncy castle madness fixed?, Hammond sells out, thanks for the 399W, and "homogenous".
• 2008/08/07 - Inkorekt speling iz rong, weight-- = petrol--, smasheroonie, l'accent Frenchie, RetroGeek, and "esoteric".
• 2008/08/11 - Coke vs Pepsi, new "improved" recipe, honey, bad Brit blood, and "pants" (plus nappies and diapers!).
• 2008/08/18 - The end of TV adverts, mobile prices, geeks are cool, Hello Kitty, and "susurration".
• 2008/08/19 - DVD+R/DVD-R, writing DVDs, CBR, why XviD, and "felicity".
• 2008/08/21 - W3C/validation, more Hello Kitty, daft message 1, on cost-cutting, daft message 2, and "pallor".
• 2008/08/24 - Pointless movie remake, and "impetuous".
• 2008/09/01 - More ANPE madness, MiniBBS (v0.00a1), and "experiment".
• 2008/09/02 - Cataloguing children, guns for teachers, 97 hacks, Lentil, and "foliage".
• 2008/09/05 - Power hiccups.
• 2008/09/08 - How much can it suck?
• 2008/09/09 - How much it sucks, ADSL, and virginity...
• 2008/09/11 - I want my life back!
• 2008/09/14 - More on my job, MTV VMA, non-Sky channels, lusers get paid more...
• 2008/09/16 - Slapped in the face (new hours), walking around Tokyo: 東京タワー.
• 2008/09/17 - More work news (bye-bye cow-orker), and Amy MacDonald.
• 2008/09/18 - Work news (where's my squeegee?), and a newer MiniBBS (v0.00a2).
• 2008/09/22 - Work woes and rip-off Britain.
• 2008/09/23 - Work woes - update, and a later MiniBBS (v0.00a3).
• 2008/09/25 - Evil hours, if it's such a crap job..., Amélie in HD, old phone, and the winter weather outlook.
• 2008/09/26 - Yo! Where's my coat?, electronics catalogues, and appalling wastages.
• 2008/09/29 - The story continues...
• 2008/09/30 - My coat - my notice, and those late late nights...
• 2008/10/01 - Farnell, vinyl, "illegal" downloading, minimum wage, and child Internet safety.
• 2008/10/02 - Land's end, story's end...
• 2008/10/03 - The day greed won and we lost.
• 2008/10/07 - Serendipity, pay day, MPman MP4-Fiesta (review), and hash-cake.
• 2008/10/10 - Meeting somebody new...
• 2008/10/14 - Mobiles and microprocessors.
• 2008/10/17 - DIY shopping and SiteKiosk.
• 2008/10/20 - The Nokia 6230i.
• 2008/10/22 - Gaspillage - endgame.
• 2008/10/24 - The end of 'CastAVote'.
• 2008/10/29 - WebScan and DST time changes, Nokia emulator, today at work...
• 2008/10/30 - Wossy and his pay packet, my final day will be a day off (!), and "Dead Set".
• 2008/11/04 - Mathematical zombies, America votes, XviD and the faster box...
• 2008/11/06 - Screen burn-in - on an LCD!, Obama the President, and a graphics tablet.
• 2008/11/09 - Yogourt weaving, party political nonsense/Scotland, hunter mind-games, and Soba noodles.
• 2008/11/20 - Nice work if you can get it, why are pie charts so difficult to make?, software extras (TightVNC & VirtualDub), recording video into a computer, maize and farming practice, the housing crisis, the housing crisis (alternate), graphics tablet - pressure sensitive.
• 2008/11/21 - Nice work (when you get it), dish fiddling for JESC.
• 2008/11/22 - Dish fiddling after JESC.
• 2008/11/27 - My final day? Thinking ahead. A potted history of discrimination.
• 2008/11/30 - Getting ADSL - we don't exist!?!? Review: Creative Zen (updated 2008/12/06).
• 2008/12/02 - Job extension...
• 2008/12/06 - Creative Zen review extended, where is NRJ Hits?
• 2008/12/12 - Work in the future?
• 2008/12/13 - Work in the future - part two, hold a chicken in the air, bye-bye Woolies, a warning to the wise, euthanasia, and why hiding ciggies is madness.
• 2008/12/15 - Icky Christmas food!
• 2008/12/17 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in reverse: The Ugly - ARNAQUES at the Intermarché The Bad - the loss of NRJ Hits The Good - NHK World.
• 2008/12/20 - Bloody Nokia, mobile data prices, Maltesers (you should be ashamed), cat food (again), Christmas cheer, and when is a byte not a byte?
• 2008/12/23 - Wow - work continues, Wow2 - a Christmas Parcel, Westmister you should be ashamed, and harddiscs and NTFS.
• 2008/12/25 - This is it, the day you were waiting for after enduring several months of muzak carols... (not to mention DFS adverts with Slade-like themes banging away in the background, and Morrisson's adverts that somehow manage to be even more annoying, something nobody thought could be possible!, a Santa in every department store (are little kids really that stupid?) and an endless array of hackneyed heard-it-to-death-already carols and money-grovellers and carol-singers and where's the festive spirit lying? it is there in the gutter, rolling in agony after having been kicked senseless by greed and everybody's chorus of "I want! I want! I want!")
• 2009/01/12 - Welcome to 2009, "Demons" (the ITV programme), and coldness.
• 2009/01/14 - News review - government waste rules, assembly religious opt-outs, coffee visions, and was it Galileo or Harriot (and does anybody really care?).
• 2009/01/18 - Review - the auvisio MPEG4 PVR (a version of iPod-Recorder).
• 2009/01/27 - What, no b.log entries? The Goodmans GFSAT100SD freeview receiver.
• 2009/01/31 - Something lurking in my PVR - an additional menu, and a comparison of resolutions.
• 2009/02/07 - The Zen driver package problem, unsafe file moves, snow? what snow?, foreign workers, European City of Culture, my personal credit crunch.
• 2009/02/08 - A guide to video transcoding - MP4 to AVI.
• 2009/02/10 - Diary of a Hitman/Hurricane Quentin, what's happened to NHK World?
• 2009/02/13 - Paraskavedekatriaphobia, what's a PVR?, why MPEG4? welcome back, foreign workers (again).
• 2009/02/18 - VirtualDub is kept busy, aliens? (Austin), real aliens?, a one-person helicopter, the Pet Shop Boys, music and purpose (boy bands, '80s, punk, Lily Allen, John Bender, revolution and The Yobs (yup, Rick's feeling depressed again...)).
• 2009/02/22 - Australia's bush fires, unruly children/upbringing/parents, end Celeb Status, Love Me/Leave Me.
• 2009/02/25 - DIY disc cleaner, nationalising/privatising...
• 2009/02/26 - Keeping up with the Jones' (ADSL speeds), the Pôle Emploi and yet more nonsensical beaurocracy...
• 2009/02/28 - PopArt, PVR timed recordings bug, What I'm watching, ancient and extinct words.
• 2009/03/03 - Welcome to Spring, sort-of, PVR playback capabilities, PVR examining the hardware...
• 2009/03/16 - CastAWote makes a return, ceasing and desisting, a lovely Spring day, the end of the meadow...
• 2009/03/21 - A dummy entry...
• 2009/03/23 - Another PVR bug, relative resolutions, all change at work, My So-Called Life (remembering)/favourite TV series.
• 2009/03/24 - Work woes? Almost, but not quite. At the Noz again (biscuit straws and Ju-On manga).
• 2009/03/28 - A more in-depth video conversion process.
• 2009/03/31 - Cough-splutter/snotty chavs, Angela/MSCL, what to aspire to, dribbles!
• 2009/04/24 - What's up?
• 2009/04/26 - First vide grenier, enhanced keyboard, Frenchie BMI, Gurkhas, why worry about the economy?
• 2009/05/01 - A day off, another vide grenier, vinyl-to-MP3, Primeval, must-see TV.
• 2009/05/09 - Primeval (more), TeleGuide (for the PocketBook2/Psion 3x), chéques Restaurant, the new(er) DVD writer, new glasses - well someday, work continues, MPs and their expenses.
• 2009/05/12 - TeleGuide (for the PocketBook2/Psion 3x) version 0.02.
• 2009/05/17 - Eurovision 2009.
• 2009/05/20 - Seven years in France, old haunts, TV in France.
• 2009/05/21 - Vide grenier, Gameboys, D-Link DIR-100...
• 2009/05/25 - Epic storm! [video]
• 2009/06/03 - AirFrance - one down, one up. Faraday cages and mobiles in lockers, fixing the PVR's remote controller, further thoughts on the GameBoy Color/Advance games and brief system specs.
• 2009/06/12 - Touchpads, pandemic, Gordie get lost/manufacturing, patriotism.
• 2009/06/24 - Why I can't celebrate - REPORTED ATTACK SITE! [AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE]
• 2009/06/28 - Google cares - but only so much, bye-bye HeyRick, 404s!, Recovery, 92.38.0.0, what actually happened?, wow it's hot! [AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE]
• 2009/07/03 - Problems but nothing is insurmountable, a new look, extra cooling.
• 2009/07/13 - The eeePC 901 - overly verbose review!
• 2009/07/14 - Our vide grenier, rain, adventures with WiFi, and why you should secure your own!
• 2009/07/19 - eeePC and MBSA, more WiFi fun, Unix recursive deletes, RISC OS, XML, 8bits, and Yahoo mail offline.
• 2009/07/26 - Ai! (hard work but...), eeePC/XP quirk, Asus why?, WiFi scan, and LiveBox security.
• 2009/07/29 - HeyRick site statistics (Quantcast), Karen & nursery rhymes, a childhood memory, ADSL but when?
• 2009/08/04 - A new printer - the Brother DCP-165C, AverTV and TV on Azumi...
• 2009/08/06 - Getting wired - it finally happens!
• 2009/08/14 - Lots of online stuff for you to check out...
• 2009/08/19 - A real employee!
• 2009/08/27 - Lockerbie, Scotland, join the dots... [politically heavy]
• 2009/09/06 - Top Gear and a female presenter?, a real scam?, exchange rate ripoff, younger than reality...
• 2009/09/12 - Xubuntu on an SD card!
• 2009/09/15 - Nokia PC Suite upgrade... or not.
• 2009/09/20 - Managing downloads, DVDs-a-plenty, banking reforms needed NOW.
• 2009/10/01 - Our new car, and problems with the older one.
• 2009/10/07 - Supermarket - Health and Safety.
• 2009/10/10 - This season's colour scheme!
• 2009/10/16 - Adieu Le Bar, Adieu La Frite. :-(
• 2009/11/01 - Here comes Winter.
• 2009/11/04 - Breadmaker cakes.
• 2009/11/07 - My PHP scripting 'makes it'!
• 2009/11/08 - InfoCirculation Nantes and a bloke wandering a busy road at night.
• 2009/11/17 - Foreign languages are stupid? Just look at the bogosity of English!
• 2009/11/22 - Atheism redefined, Jehovah's citations, paid-for followers.
• 2009/11/27 - A bolt out of the blue, and a DVD writer in PIO mode.
• 2009/11/28 - A work 'do', another work 'do', mental case hours, and on speaking up...or not.
• 2009/12/06 - Who do I look like?
• 2009/12/16 - My so-called birthday and a work information display.
• 2009/12/20 - Death defying, HeyRick posted (literally), and the new RSS option.
• 2009/12/23 - Misunderstood, and the end of production 'menage'.
• 2009/12/24 - THE END OF AN ERA.
• 2009/12/25 - Christmas, and the Christmascam.
• 2009/12/26 - On energy-saving bulbs.
• 2009/12/27 - Schools and proxies, what (not) to block, iTunes boob, rant/conspiracy whoo-hoo.
• 2009/12/31 - This is the decade that was.
• 2010/01/09 - Date woes, Adobe updater, a long missive regarding 'illegal downloads' and media moguls/profits.
• 2010/01/10 - A wander around Tōkyō... sort of.
• 2010/01/22 - Finally, a video dub tool that works!
• 2010/01/23 - Texas Instruments and the TMS320DM320, Meiryō - a better looking Japanese font, hot damn - the George Foreman grill!
• 2010/01/26 - Count those ARMs! BushInternet attempted pwning, lame! lame! lame!
• 2010/01/31 - A detailed look inside the iPodRecorder PVR.
• 2010/02/06 - Three strikes, HADOPI (in France) and an idea of a solution/activism
• 2010/02/07 - RadioTimes FAIL!
• 2010/02/14 - b.log version 2
• 2010/02/15 - b.log2 what's new? Funny publicity. When good ATMs go bad!
• 2010/02/20 - Adverts I remember
• 2010/02/21 - The b.log2 goes live.
• 2010/02/25 - Having TACT, and browser picking.
• 2010/02/27 - Hurricane (updated 23h00 CET)
• 2010/02/28 - Hurricane - After Story, Nozomi and rail schedules
• 2010/03/02 - Hurricane - died in their sleep
• 2010/03/03 - AdBlockPlus vs advertising, Climate Change
• 2010/03/05 - Hello navi... visions of future tech Westwards vs Japan
• 2010/03/11 - Japanese virtual babies, and IPR theft (aka I get ripped off (again!))
• 2010/03/12 - Online piracy - enough is enough is enough...
• 2010/03/14 - Yankee Doodle...
• 2010/03/17 - Beeping in, beeping out, beeping machine... and beeping tyre too!
• 2010/03/18 - Beeping machine and programME...
• 2010/03/19 - Orange evolution (part 1)
• 2010/03/20 - Orange evolution (part 2)
• 2010/03/21 - Walking the cat
• 2010/03/23 - Earth to LiveBox, come in Livebox, Orange saga (evolution part two-and-a-half), and girls who like...
• 2010/03/25 - Cheques Restaurant - new rules, paperwork madness, Win32:Confi, and IE-what?
• 2010/03/27 - Fastest browser install/uninstalls in history, HTML compliancy, work woes.
• 2010/03/31 - Japanese order, bento box, and Satsuki.
• 2010/04/01 - April Fools: reports of my demise are greatly exhaggerated... and the start of YouTube's demise.
• 2010/04/03 - Chrome issues, Catherine Cottage, the continuing Orange saga (part three), wires and petals.
• 2010/04/04 - b.log 2 revisions, and more on the new YouTube.
• 2010/04/06 - Neuros OSD order, Kiddie porn and obscene ... drawings.
• 2010/04/10 - Neuros OSD - a first look
• 2010/04/11 - Neuros OSD - a walk around
• 2010/04/15 - Satsuki, Japanese food, and USB/ethernet
• 2010/04/16 - Clear skies, sort of
• 2010/04/18 - Sakura-mia!
• 2010/04/20 - Flights resume, except for wussy Brits
• 2010/04/23 - Accidents at work
• 2010/04/26 - Telescope
• 2010/05/02 - Clair de lune
• 2010/05/07 - The British General Election
• 2010/05/08 - Neuros OSD - geeky tips and tricks
• 2010/05/12 - FAT and SD filing system screwups
• 2010/05/14 - Neuros OSD - a month on, what is cute?, and 日本料理
• 2010/05/17 - Just add water! ☺
• 2010/05/20 - Azumi is dead, long live Azumi! 8 years in France.
• 2010/05/21 - That picnic table.
• 2010/05/28 - Roses are red...
• 2010/06/06 - Time is not on my side, glowing in the dark...
• 2010/06/22 - Orange saga, part four (I think?)
• 2010/06/28 - How do you say that in French?
• 2010/07/04 - Virus? Rootkit? Or bad joke?
• 2010/07/09 - My Japan-box, Chihiro Onitsuka, WTF?
• 2010/07/17 - Experiences with Amazon Marketplace
• 2010/07/25 - Video camera and edit deck
• 2010/07/26 - Noise cancelling headphones [video], how these videos are made.
• 2010/07/27 - Playing with Tiny [video].
• 2010/07/30 - YouTube and FLVs
• 2010/08/02 - Sun and beans and Amazon's fail.
• 2010/08/09 - Random: Lefties and can openers, mini cooker, summer break, Wine, and Asian foods.
• 2010/08/16 - Holiday's over...
• 2010/08/28 - Keyboard woes
• 2010/08/29 - Katana
• 2010/09/02 - Moo! Cows and bridges.
• 2010/09/07 - eBay nonsense / virtual credit card
• 2010/09/12 - GPS and WAG200G router
• 2010/09/15 - A nice cup of tea!
• 2010/09/16 - Computer fix-its
• 2010/09/18 - I am the Alpha Geek.
• 2010/09/19 - EPIC interference KILLS the Internet.
• 2010/09/21 - Three strikes, you're out!
• 2010/09/22 - Saving the world, Mailcheck (script)
• 2010/09/26 - Long live RISC OS! Stupid Livebox.
• 2010/09/29 - WTF?
• 2010/09/30 - Work woes redux, agnostic vs atheist
• 2010/10/04 - Line issues, and my new bento
• 2010/10/07 - Microsoft - WTF?
• 2010/10/10 - Tokyo - where to go? Movie remakes.
• 2010/10/11 - Stupid Microsoft...
• 2010/10/16 - Manifs, Opera probs, Konami...
• 2010/10/26 - Rice and spiders...
• 2010/10/31 - Non-existance, bento, halloween...
• 2010/11/01 - Car parking hall of SHAME
• 2010/11/06 - My new toy :-)
• 2010/11/07 - Microsoft smelling the coffee, virtual women, helicopter fun.
• 2010/11/12 - Further experiments with the little helicopter.
• 2010/11/23 - Don't kick it, nor zombies.
• 2010/11/24 - Google's pointless preview
• 2010/11/27 - b.log abuse, wget, and recaptcha
• 2010/12/08 - The winter blues.
• 2010/12/12 - It's a bad news/good news situation.
• 2010/12/19 - What happened to HeyRick?
• 2010/12/21 - On being a Brit, or faking it convincingly.
• 2010/12/25 - Final flight, and Christmas.
• 2010/12/31 - Beeb goodies
• 2011/01/02 - Now we're cooking with gas! Helicopter rises like a Phoenix, PHP proofreading, and decyphering Japanese cooking instructions.
• 2011/01/21 - Welcome to the fast lane
• 2011/01/25 - Life in the fast lane, beans, soy sauce, comfort food
• 2011/01/31 - Android assessment, Wikileaks, Car, Locker
• 2011/02/13 - Microsoft and FAT, a promotion, camera play, and eoliens.
• 2011/02/19 - A few words to Sarko
• 2011/02/20 - A nothing-happens weekend, katakana lesson one
• 2011/02/28 - Mobile phone speeds, cool stuff, and... I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!
• 2011/03/04 - Industrial accident, arrgh!
• 2011/03/08 - The perils of not-quite open source.
• 2011/03/10 - Steve Jobs' knighthood blocked? ARM disassembly. JTAG recovery. Kana keyboard.
• 2011/03/11 - Watashi-tachi no kangae de wa, toshite imasu. 私たちの考えでは、としています。
• 2011/03/19 - Some hard truths...
• 2011/04/01 - Almost Sakura! Stupid spam. Fukushima vs Reality. Don't annoy your phone!
• 2011/04/04 - Hardcore geeking-out!
• 2011/04/05 - Geekery expanded
• 2011/04/07 - A new toy... sort of. :-)
• 2011/04/09 - blog'n'go
• 2011/04/11 - Iceland... says no. JTAG wibbles.
• 2011/04/14 - Japanese face masks, and McDonald's blue cheese burger.
• 2011/04/15 - France does it again - a data-grab above and beyond the call of duty
• 2011/04/17 - Whoa! What a day!
• 2011/04/19 - JTAG explained.
• 2011/04/22 - Unwell
• 2011/04/24 - A scattered entry, lots of topics!
• 2011/04/27 - Baking - water biscuits and shortbread
• 2011/05/08 - This entry is a many-splendored thing! ARM disassembler, hangman game, Madeleine (yes, that one), real Japanese rice, pay woes and work night-hours, vide grenier, Casio KL-2000, bad continuity, animé, Steins;Gate (résumé of first five episodes) [phew!]
• 2011/05/15 - OSD failure, vide grenier, GPS accuracy, a not-so awesome deal
• 2011/05/24 - The most EPICest FAIL ever!
• 2011/05/28 - Oh boy! Okay: Petrol wheeze/rip-off, a very impractical car for a country town, PlayStation 1 (PSX) and protected video, tree cutting, weirdness at Amazon, and the awesome Steins;Gate eps 6 to 8.
• 2011/05/30 - Tax and cucumbers
• 2011/06/02 - A dictated entry... [Android speech recognition, Edamame Soy seeds, Cucumbers, MoboPlayer, and lots of crossed-out stuff!]
• 2011/06/05 - Dopey bunny
• 2011/06/07 - Passport application
• 2011/06/13 - Random stuff through the week: passport saga, deadly cucumbers, ketchup pricing madness, information leaks, stormy sky, offending errors, and a good cuppa at work...
• 2011/06/14 - Knitting and five a day
• 2011/06/20 - Shiki 20.5
• 2011/06/26 - This weekend: Own-brand products, Duke Nukem, vide grenier, floppy drive, CF interface...
• 2011/06/29 - Label, passport, 'asswipe', money vs happiness.
• 2011/07/01 - Soy, rice, and sunrise
• 2011/07/04 - Steins;Gate episodes 9 to 13, everything sounds cuter in Japanese [video]
• 2011/07/05 - Morning walk [video], Millie's phone, string theory
• 2011/07/11 - Where is HeyRick? TalkTalk/Tiscali - you're being followed. Using SSL with HeyRick. Rice cooker. Busy weekend - hi Mick!
• 2011/07/17 - Mick's visit, rice maker redux, Akane the money girl, Satsuki vs the giants, LD becomes DTMF, cute cat.
• 2011/07/21 - All Japanese look alike. Scary night skies!
• 2011/07/25 - Phones, diallers, vide grenier, stingy chips, and mom's new computer.
• 2011/07/29 - Hanafuda Koi-koi
• 2011/08/03 - Holiday, katana, reclaim our DNA!, E-Razor USB keys, Google Fail
• 2011/08/06 - Soya beans, JTAG delays, summer?, processor unity
• 2011/08/07 - ARM vs x86 and the joy of conditional execution
• 2011/08/09 - Slice of Life - welcome to England
• 2011/08/13 - My fondle-phone, a closer look
• 2011/08/23 - Epic storm, Japanese stamps.
• 2011/08/29 - Libya, East Coast earthquake, Storm/FEMA, donations
• 2011/09/04 - Potential microwave leakage?
• 2011/09/06 - And then there were five
• 2011/09/11 - PlayStation2, rally fun, and Wawa
• 2011/09/17 - Money madness, and a comment from mom
• 2011/09/26 - LiveBox, TNT receiver, science fooled?, anti-semitic, Palestine, names.
• 2011/10/05 - My Edamame (soy) harvest, on rooting an Android phone, trashing a Subaru in Japan, the Euro crisis, and on privacy (and why it matters).
• 2011/10/09 - Free misses the point - why Richard Stallman is wrong (and the GPL bad); Livebox (old) fiddles - and insides; the Livephone; turn-of-the-century Japanese postcards; Maître CoQ's DISGUSTING poule au pot.
• 2011/10/13 - Pieces of me - the electronic persona and its continuance
• 2011/10/17 - Mondays, inexplicable computer pauses, vide greniers, hot burgers and a hotter woman, Sims (and more heat), pre-burgers roaming the field, and idiot gendarmes. More or less.
• 2011/10/20 - Gary McKinnon and The Law - jurisdiction where?
• 2011/10/25 - Android application oddities, phone unlocking, Britain - a second rate EU member, your right to your 'image', a final farewell (to the dead).
• 2011/10/31 - Halloween, Graveyard, and the Dead of Night
• 2011/11/05 - The forgotten week - work accident, and blog mobile.
• 2011/11/14 - The day democracy died? Visit Japan - free flights?
• 2011/11/18 - The most misunderstood moggie in history (mewing in the quantum world).
• 2011/11/23 - Quantum Kitten. Amazon. Ebay. Digibox.
• 2011/12/06 - Economy and Credit Ratings. Belated Thank Yous. JESC and Sleep Deprivation.
• 2011/12/07 - Bluetooth earpiece - Motorola H700 (knock-off).
• 2011/12/09 - Two Generals
• 2011/12/15 - Euro, animé, NHK World
• 2011/12/18 - My birthday and The Tree of Doom!
• 2011/12/25 - A Christmas entry.
• 2012/01/02 - Happy New Year, etc
• 2012/01/22 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro, Scotland and independence, SOPA
• 2012/01/23 - A reply to 'Anon', Windows Mobile
• 2012/01/29 - SMPlayer crash - [VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure
• 2012/01/30 - Livebox FAILs, Peach pie
• 2012/02/12 - The Frozen River
• 2012/02/20 - ACTA, Yay Freetards?, New Car!, new digital satellite receiver
• 2012/02/25 - From Up On Poppy Hill [cinema/film review]
• 2012/03/03 - What's up with my old satellite receiver?
• 2012/03/25 - Not dead, RISC OS, vide grenier (Sony Mavica), ordering online from MandS
• 2012/03/27 - SysAdmin Manoeuvres in the Dark
• 2012/04/04 - Holiday, and RISC OS coding
• 2012/04/10 - Halal meat, Android compiling, ASCII art, Yahoo! FAIL!, Skype
• 2012/04/25 - America, WAKE UP!
• 2012/04/26 - XBOX and keyboard
• 2012/05/06 - Immigration and colonisation
• 2012/05/09 - Mavica photos
• 2012/05/10 - Xenophobia and JTAG
• 2012/05/12 - Homosexual marriage
• 2012/05/13 - Vide grenier whoo-hoo!
• 2012/05/14 - Beyond speechless... [updated]
• 2012/05/15 - Why Linux sucks (fun with a Beagle)
• 2012/05/16 - Beagle xM video
• 2012/05/17 - Beagle xM - RISC OS
• 2012/05/18 - Beagle xM - RISC OS working!
• 2012/05/19 - Leaving England, and RISC OS
• 2012/05/20 - 10 years, Beagle and RISC OS
• 2012/05/28 - BeagLEDs
• 2012/05/30 - Tax, Beagle, vide grenier
• 2012/05/31 - Eurozone
• 2012/06/04 - I know about 45,592 words! Jubilee singers.
• 2012/06/08 - Will Land Value Tax rescue the economy?
• 2012/06/10 - Final Beagle play. What season is this? Orphaned works.
• 2012/06/18 - Photo frame etc, Haruhi DVD, LVT
• 2012/06/20 - Phishing and Yahoo!
• 2012/06/24 - What's in a name? Tiny/sunshine. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
• 2012/06/25 - Oh What A Carry On
• 2012/06/28 - Beagle update, Google madness, OMAP documentation (print costs)
• 2012/07/01 - Summer anime
• 2012/07/11 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro compass recalibration, Orange FAILs HARD
• 2012/07/15 - A Mutt Called Woof
• 2012/07/16 - Knock-off-Kitty?
• 2012/07/29 - Mick and the Vide Grenier
• 2012/08/05 - Sick Rick
• 2012/08/11 - Big Smile News, Retrochallenge
• 2012/08/14 - Olympic Closing Ceremony
• 2012/09/05 - One Livebox bites the dust hard, another steps into the fray.
• 2012/09/09 - Forced Mutuelle, vide greniers, and epic sunset.
• 2012/09/12 - Printing money has made us all £10,000 better off, says BoE
• 2012/09/15 - Facebook timeline, my experiences with Amazon's new App-Shop, and naked-Kate.
• 2012/09/18 - FAT^WFAIL! Those boobs, those photos, that magazine. Amazon's Cloud Player.
• 2012/09/19 - Playing in the corn [video]
• 2012/09/26 - Major Android fail - directly actioning 'tel:' URIs
• 2012/10/01 - Rice: Deal or No Deal? Japanese teapot. Flamin' Hot! Letratag labellers. Harinezumi (for RISC OS).
• 2012/10/09 - The Autumn 2012 anime season.
• 2012/10/27 - What I've been up to, the RaspberryPi. [video]
• 2012/11/05 - Fail, fail, fail!
• 2012/11/21 - Final vide grenier, rice cooker cooking, mom fail
• 2012/12/09 - Type A vs Type B anime fans
• 2012/12/12 - Birthday card, faxes, Decay (zombie flick)
• 2012/12/17 - Another day, another school shooting
• 2012/12/24 - Chasing ghosts
• 2012/12/25 - Christmas photos
• 2012/12/27 - How to install RISC OS on a RaspberryPi [video]
• 2013/01/06 - The mathematics of copyright [TED video]
• 2013/01/13 - New phone - Sony Xperia U
• 2013/01/17 - The contract in more detail
• 2013/01/18 - Orange's site sucks
• 2013/01/22 - OtakuCastle, ADSL speed, Goodbye,HelloAndGoodbye
• 2013/02/02 - Japanese and dyslexia; Steins;Gate DVD
• 2013/02/09 - Spring Rain - piano score
• 2013/02/24 - RISC OS MIDI
• 2013/03/02 - RISC OS MIDI - reading MIDI data, and playback; Maestro hack
• 2013/03/03 - Goodbye McDonald's, hello KFC!
• 2013/03/10 - Fast food vs reality; Austerity - Hell No!
• 2013/03/16 - Beagle Linux fail; Configuring static IP on RISC OS
• 2013/03/25 - Bang splat - EPIC Google Navigation FAIL!
• 2013/04/10 - Ding dong! The Witch Is Dead?
• 2013/04/22 - Music is more than just a collection of notation
• 2013/04/29 - Fancy keyboard for a fiver; and why all the watermarks.
• 2013/05/01 - Keyboard fix, Roland E-16 circuit wandering.
• 2013/05/04 - More on music - notes and octaves (and the frequency of music)
• 2013/05/27 - Daily Mail on Kiddie Porn
• 2013/06/04 - There's a new fiver in town...
• 2013/06/08 - So you think you can offer 100% security?
• 2013/07/04 - Muslim call to prayer on British TV for Ramadan?
• 2013/07/11 - Bad Livebox, Good Livebox
• 2013/07/22 - Britain's Victorian Morals, Go on, indulge yourself!, Livebox redux
• 2013/07/24 - Help make a little girl's dreams come true!
• 2013/07/27 - Unbelievable! The replacement Livebox is even WORSE! [updated, twice]
• 2013/07/29 - HDMI adaptor mod (USB powered)
• 2013/08/03 - Hammock, holiday, Livebox #3, BBQ, Warhol, ROOL DDE, DeskLib, MIDI, etc etc
• 2013/08/15 - Things to Do with a Pi in France when you're Bored.
• 2013/09/07 - Of electronic newspapers and iPads
• 2013/09/14 - On Syria and autumn anime
• 2013/10/06 - The Evil God Paradox
• 2013/10/17 - Where Am I?
• 2013/10/27 - iMac and a dabble in ARM assembly
• 2013/10/29 - iOS 7 review (better late than never!)
• 2013/11/03 - Halloween and a new workspace
• 2013/11/05 - Geekfest! Building RISC OS on the Pi.
• 2013/11/09 - PlayMo Nativity #1 [video, HD, version 2]
• 2013/11/11 - Custom song art and lyrics on an iPad
• 2013/11/14 - Backing up an iPad to where you want
• 2013/11/17 - Vide grenier number #54 - sewing machine, FM transmitter, and video sender
• 2013/12/08 - Christmas lights, animation #2, Retina
• 2013/12/16 - Happy Birthday to me!, banged arm, animation #3
• 2013/12/22 - Yukiiiii! Anime. And stuff.
• 2013/12/24 - How to spend Christmas Eve...?
• 2013/12/25 - Merry Christmas! [final animation], The Time Of The Doctor
• 2013/12/30 - The last hack of the year - getting a Pi online with RISC OS and a WiFi XP machine
• 2014/01/01 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
• 2014/01/02 - You morally repugnant bastards.
• 2014/01/04 - Some New Year geekery
• 2014/01/07 - Musings on Rule 34 [light entertainment!]
• 2014/01/15 - Adventures in cheese
• 2014/01/18 - What is...
• 2014/01/19 - Teapots and Liveboxes
• 2014/01/20 - Commerce fails, Pi upgrades, winter animé choices
• 2014/01/22 - Specs getting silly
• 2014/02/14 - Year Of Code, and how to really be a programmer
• 2014/02/17 - Are English kids really this dumb?
• 2014/03/14 - RISC OS internationalisation, rescuing a clock, ARM pipeline and optimisations, air pollution.
• 2014/03/16 - Playing with GPS, Wikitude, app permissions, spring flowers.
• 2014/04/01 - April Fools
• 2014/04/15 - The RiscPC is 20 years old!
• 2014/04/16 - The RiscPC is 20 years old!
• 2014/04/20 - Happy Easter!
• 2014/04/21 - Geekfest! An OLED on the Pi! (part 1)
• 2014/04/26 - Geekfest! An OLED on the Pi! (part 2)
• 2014/05/01 - Meganeko! B+D Dustbuster NW4860N review. Apple Pages/iWork free, but not for me
• 2014/05/04 - Vide grenier - Project Zero (Fatal Frame)
• 2014/05/20 - TWELVE YEARS IN FRANCE!
• 2014/05/22 - UKIP, vide grenier (helico/TV), baby Kieran
• 2014/05/24 - Wurst or worse?
• 2014/05/31 - Microwave egg cooker translation!
• 2014/06/01 - Dear Europe, we are sorry.
• 2014/06/08 - Mowing, vide grenier - Samsung SDC-415PD
• 2014/06/16 - Summer 2014 anime
• 2014/06/20 - Pi Serial port
• 2014/07/05 - America - the gift that keeps on giving
• 2014/07/13 - Visiting England . . . or not
• 2014/07/19 - Welcome to the corporate dystopia!
• 2014/07/20 - Fixing RISC OS's CLib
• 2014/08/04 - Livebox 2 - hack attempt and horrible new firmware
• 2014/08/08 - I am a sick puppy! - Windows on RISC OS
• 2014/08/09 - Windows on RISC OS - better graphics?
• 2014/08/17 - Where have I been? RaspBMC. Scotland's pride.
• 2014/08/24 - Sunday randomness - Kate quits? Scotland. Asian PlayMo. Bluetooth keyboard for iPad. Mid-season anime, and possibilities for Autumn season.
• 2014/08/29 - The troubles of The Lobby Bar
• 2014/09/02 - Oscilloscope and keyboard labels
• 2014/09/09 - Scotland and a new PC
• 2014/09/10 - Apple's 2014 keynote
• 2014/09/18 - A historic day?
• 2014/09/24 - Glasslip - reality
• 2014/10/12 - Autumn anime season - Terra Formars, Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete, Sora no Method, Akatsuki no Yona, Shirobako, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, and some others.
• 2014/10/15 - The West Lothian Question
• 2014/10/20 - Aaaaaaargh! Ebola is coming! Waaaaah!
• 2014/11/01 - RISC OS source mods
• 2014/11/02 - Another day, another crapped up computer. Rates for computer work.
• 2014/11/09 - Zen and the art of programming
• 2014/11/12 - Getting that PC running...
• 2014/11/19 - Of PMR radios and MIDI interfaces
• 2014/11/21 - Electronic cigarette
• 2014/11/22 - MIDI revisited
• 2014/11/23 - Micro helicopter [video]
• 2014/11/24 - When Good Banks Go Bad!!! Paid Advert fail?
• 2014/11/28 - A challenge: A blog post every day in December!
• 2014/12/01 - Here it is! Day one! [My challenge: To create a blog entry (something, anything) every single day this month.]
• 2014/12/02 - Google - please, for the love of God, stop buggering things up! Advent day two.
• 2014/12/03 - Advent calendar - day three
• 2014/12/04 - Advent calendar - day four
• 2014/12/05 - Advent calendar - day five
• 2014/12/06 - Advent calendar - day six; My Space
• 2014/12/07 - Advent calendar - day seven
• 2014/12/08 - Dumb things seen at the supermarket. Advent calendar - day eight
• 2014/12/09 - Advent calendar - day nine
• 2014/12/10 - Advent calendar - day ten
• 2014/12/11 - Advent calendar - day eleven
• 2014/12/12 - Advent calendar - day twelve
• 2014/12/13 - Advent calendar - day thirteen
• 2014/12/14 - Advent calendar - day fourteen
• 2014/12/15 - Advent calendar - day fifteen
• 2014/12/16 - Advent calendar - day sixteen
• 2014/12/17 - Advent calendar - day seventeen
• 2014/12/18 - Advent calendar - day eighteen
• 2014/12/19 - Advent calendar - day nineteen
• 2014/12/20 - Downloading a subtitled programme from YouTube to stream to an iPad. Advent calendar - day twenty
• 2014/12/21 - Advent calendar - day twenty one
• 2014/12/22 - Advent calendar - day twenty two. Madoka Magica Piano Medley.
• 2014/12/23 - Advent calendar - day twenty three
• 2014/12/24 - Advent calendar - day twenty four
• 2014/12/25 - Merry Christmas everybody!
• 2014/12/26 - First Christmas [photo story]
• 2014/12/27 - What have they done?
• 2014/12/28 - The hunt for good tea
• 2014/12/29 - Chess
• 2014/12/30 - Trees and Time Lords, the San'in Main Line.
• 2014/12/31 - This is the year that was
• 2015/01/01 - Hearsay and Arcade
• 2015/01/05 - Vacuum, Purely Purple Ones, Writing on the go, Why your WiFi sucks.
• 2015/01/09 - The pencil is mightier than the machine gun.
• 2015/01/10 - Technisat Skystar S2 - easy come, easy go... Kodansha's Hiragana Workbook.
• 2015/01/11 - Manifestation for Peace and Freedom
• 2015/01/20 - New contract, and Samsung s5 Mini (part 1)
• 2015/01/21 - Samsung S5 Mini (part 2)
• 2015/01/25 - Buffalo FAIL, camera quality, and the mobile office
• 2015/02/07 - Pentax Optio LS465 digital camera [review]
• 2015/02/24 - Trying out Ubuntu [and why I won't be ditching XP any time soon]
• 2015/03/11 - How dare you, God, how dare you!
• 2015/03/15 - Pi day?
• 2015/03/20 - The world ended today, but only if you are a lunatic!
• 2015/03/22 - Things that you should never have said about MFA Writing Programs now that you (thankfully) no longer teach in one.
• 2015/03/23 - Writing Relocatable Modules in C
• 2015/04/05 - Of Satellites and vide greniers, another MIDI interface, and a sort of selfie.
• 2015/04/09 - Spring is coming, and Sunday's meals.
• 2015/04/14 - Army meal FAIL!
• 2015/04/17 - Replies to a troll...
• 2015/04/26 - ARM's 30th birthday, and some random photos
• 2015/05/08 - A night of trauma
• 2015/05/13 - Are we not humans? Do we not have rights?
• 2015/05/14 - Frobnicate!
• 2015/05/17 - Fatal Frame Zero - a gothic masterpiece
• 2015/05/19 - Eurovision - first semi final
• 2015/05/21 - Eurovision - second semi final
• 2015/05/23 - Eurovision - grand final final
• 2015/06/08 - The RMS Jive, and interfacing a USB joystick to RISC OS.
• 2015/06/16 - Japanese stamps
• 2015/06/19 - Feeling retro (aka when you know you're an old fart)
• 2015/06/26 - DeskLib update proposal
• 2015/06/28 - France's trauma, the passing of Tama, McDo redux
• 2015/07/04 - Final day, part one [photo story]
• 2015/07/05 - Final day, extra #1 [photo story]
• 2015/07/27 - I'm still here! DeskLib hackery.
• 2015/07/29 - Graphics tablet - Braun Tavla 5 (UC-Logic WP5540U)
• 2015/08/03 - A pile of fail to brighten up your week
• 2015/08/10 - Language evolves, and Skills we are losing (plus Rick's list)
• 2015/08/13 - Thunder and lightning
• 2015/08/17 - What's in an update?
• 2015/08/19 - Haters gonna hate and spammers gonna spam
• 2015/08/22 - Telescope, lightning
• 2015/08/25 - Donate to HeyRick's hosting!
• 2015/08/28 - What a week it has been
• 2015/08/30 - More electronics stuff from a vide grenier!
• 2015/09/02 - What exactly is the GPL linkage requirement?
• 2015/09/08 - Mick's weekend and the tram-train to Nantes
• 2015/09/12 - The efficiency of a Pi server
• 2015/09/19 - Random Saturday Ramblings
• 2015/09/27 - Square waves; mini-Henry; Braun NovoScan A6 [many photos]
• 2015/09/29 - Compromised, but what?
• 2015/09/30 - Compromised - it wasn't me!
• 2015/10/11 - Sunday shenanigans; Now and Then, Here and There
• 2015/10/16 - The American Cloud - crashing and burning
• 2015/10/23 - Ovation
• 2015/10/25 - Ovation (first revision), and thirty years on
• 2015/10/27 - Rick's kitemark; PNJdrone DR-BEE
• 2015/10/28 - PNJdrone DR-BEE [video and inside photos]
• 2015/10/31 - It's Halloween!!!
• 2015/11/04 - Ovation - here it is!
• 2015/11/05 - Ovation - the fixed one!
• 2015/11/07 - Ovation - this time it'll work :-)
• 2015/11/08 - Getting started with Ovation [tutorial]
• 2015/11/09 - Printing with Ovation - don't use sprites; creating runaround text; and more!
• 2015/11/13 - Ovation v1.52 - nicer looking and some Unicode
• 2015/11/14 - Paris' suffering is Europe's failing
• 2015/11/15 - Other people's code - Ovation and rummaging around inside it
• 2015/11/17 - The source code is messy. When are you going to fix it?
• 2015/11/21 - Legislating mathematics
• 2015/11/30 - Photos and commentary - dumb stuff I've seen. Hacking Christmas lights.
• 2015/12/01 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day One
• 2015/12/02 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Two
• 2015/12/03 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Three
• 2015/12/04 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Four
• 2015/12/05 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Five
• 2015/12/06 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Six
• 2015/12/07 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Seven
• 2015/12/08 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Eight
• 2015/12/09 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Nine
• 2015/12/10 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Ten
• 2015/12/11 - I'm on the spectrum! Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Eleven
• 2015/12/12 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twelve
• 2015/12/13 - The joy of rural life (cows on the loose!), Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Thirteen
• 2015/12/14 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Fourteen
• 2015/12/15 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Fifteen
• 2015/12/16 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Sixteen
• 2015/12/17 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Seventeen
• 2015/12/18 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Eighteen
• 2015/12/19 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Nineteen
• 2015/12/20 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twenty
• 2015/12/21 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twenty One
• 2015/12/22 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twenty Two
• 2015/12/23 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twenty Three
• 2015/12/24 - Playmobil Advent Calendar - Day Twenty Four
• 2015/12/25 - Merry Christmas
• 2015/12/26 - BBC BASIC goes multitasking
• 2015/12/27 - BBC BASIC goes multitasking - a better way
• 2015/12/28 - Regain control of your mobile browser!
• 2015/12/29 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
• 2015/12/30 - The Year Of Fear...and disaster
• 2015/12/31 - Koshihikari
• 2016/01/03 - Welcome to 2016 - Japanese movies: Live, Flying Colors, Godzilla, and God's Puzzle.
• 2016/01/04 - DumbServer - writing a simple server for RISC OS
• 2016/01/06 - Why I loathe _swix()
• 2016/01/13 - File type detection
• 2016/01/16 - How to use an oscilloscope
• 2016/01/17 - Winter sales and vide grenier. Global warming? [garden photos]
• 2016/01/20 - The many levels of conditional compilation
• 2016/01/25 - Doctor Who - Moffat is on the way out
• 2016/01/26 - La Prime d'Emploi
• 2016/01/30 - More sale stuff
• 2016/02/05 - Arbitrarily detained?
• 2016/02/14 - Ovation 1.53RM 心♥心♥心
• 2016/02/19 - Some pictures of Ovation in use
• 2016/02/26 - Eurovision 2016 - UK National Selection
• 2016/02/29 - Pi3? 3? WTF? Have you seen the specs?
• 2016/03/05 - 96.4 The Eagle, on RISC OS
• 2016/03/13 - Feeling my age, and finally a smart weather station
• 2016/03/19 - Fixing SMPlayer losing audio sync
• 2016/03/20 - Competition trolling for the lulz
• 2016/03/26 - RISC OS source mods - 2016
• 2016/03/27 - You're scaremongering!
• 2016/03/29 - Weather station online!
• 2016/04/02 - Weather station redux - reading from the La Crosse WS-2300
• 2016/04/11 - Why AI has a LONG way to go
• 2016/04/17 - Guilty pleasure and animé
• 2016/04/18 - Final day, part two [photo story]
• 2016/05/05 - Akira DPS-B73U7 portable DVD player
• 2016/05/07 - Final Day - part three
• 2016/05/10 - Eurovision 2016 Semi Final 1
• 2016/05/12 - Eurovision 2016 Semi Final 2
• 2016/05/14 - Eurovision 2016 Grand Final
• 2016/05/17 - Tiny (2004-2016)
• 2016/05/19 - Eurovision and statistics, my picks
• 2016/05/21 - People can be so careless with their personal data
• 2016/06/05 - Final day, part four [photo story]
• 2016/06/16 - Happy 42½
• 2016/06/17 - To be (a part of the EU) or not to be
• 2016/06/19 - Power. Logging into Arcade the easy way.
• 2016/06/25 - Brexit and sanity
• 2016/07/03 - Brexit, Pokcetbook e-reader
• 2016/07/10 - Brexit, Pokcetbook e-reader [videos]
• 2016/07/17 - Creating an EPUB file
• 2016/07/23 - Pi Zero, Ovation 1.55RM
• 2016/08/01 - Walking the RMA
• 2016/08/03 - Making ROMs writeable
• 2016/08/05 - Custom breakpoint handler code
• 2016/08/10 - Bang! And a cheap little webcam.
• 2016/08/13 - Parc Oriental (Japanese garden) in Maulevrier [photos]
• 2016/08/22 - Silencing the webcam / IPCAM.
• 2016/09/04 - Pop! Bang!
• 2016/09/05 - Fixing the PocketBook e-reader if you accidentally delete all of your applications
• 2016/09/10 - Webcam / IPCAM - control protocol
• 2016/09/19 - Some randomness - a sense of scale, epic trauma, and something just plain icky.
• 2016/09/26 - Why Phoebe failed? Orange failed (hard).
• 2016/09/28 - Dangling the padlock (SSL at HeyRick)
• 2016/10/16 - Some software updates... EtherStat, OvHTML, and Scan32bit
• 2016/10/23 - Pi2, Christmas? Playmo Expo.
• 2016/10/30 - Don't buy a Brother inkjet. Tablet driver for RISC OS 5.
• 2016/10/31 - Halloween
• 2016/11/10 - すべては狂っているんだから
• 2016/11/11 - Panty liners and window cleaner
• 2016/11/29 - Random rants
• 2016/12/01 - Welcome to the 2016 Advent Calendars!
• 2016/12/02 - Fire at the recycling centre
• 2016/12/03 - Day three
• 2016/12/04 - Day four
• 2016/12/05 - Day five. Boobies!
• 2016/12/06 - Day six.
• 2016/12/07 - Day seven.
• 2016/12/08 - Day eight. Vonets and RISC OS
• 2016/12/09 - Day nine. WINTER IS COMING.
• 2016/12/10 - Day X.
• 2016/12/11 - Day XI.
• 2016/12/12 - Day XII.
• 2016/12/13 - Day XIII.
• 2016/12/14 - Day XIV.
• 2016/12/15 - Day XV. Aleppo and two-faced hacks.
• 2016/12/16 - Day XVI. Supermoon.
• 2016/12/17 - Day XVII.
• 2016/12/18 - Day XVIII.
• 2016/12/19 - Day XIX, and what to write about after Christmas.
• 2016/12/20 - Day XX, counterfeit hardware.
• 2016/12/21 - Day XXI, component testing, spotting a fake.
• 2016/12/22 - Day XXII
• 2016/12/23 - Day XXIII - the penultimate day
• 2016/12/24 - Day XXIV - this is it, the last one! Food for Christmas.
• 2016/12/25 - Christmas
• 2016/12/26 - George Michael
• 2016/12/27 - DSO 138 - analogue input
• 2016/12/28 - What to write about? Christmas dinner. Amazon's response.
• 2016/12/29 - The DSO 138
• 2016/12/30 - Brrr! What to watch.
• 2016/12/31 - How hard did 2016 suck?
• 2017/01/01 - Cold and playing with the oscilloscope
• 2017/01/06 - Mod my 'scope
• 2017/01/09 - Hello Brexiteer
• 2017/01/14 - Winter sales
• 2017/01/16 - USB floppy teardown
• 2017/01/18 - An inconvenient truth, or two.
• 2017/01/20 - Today's the day, God help us all...
• 2017/01/21 - Gleeful camera scanning
• 2017/01/29 - Yakuza Apocalypse
• 2017/02/12 - Samsung S7
• 2017/02/16 - Poo, Samsung S7 night photo and USB OTG
• 2017/02/17 - Chocolate world
• 2017/02/21 - Argh! Hackers! Argh!
• 2017/02/22 - HD IP camera
• 2017/02/24 - Frobnicate #31 (yes, really)
• 2017/02/26 - Tablet driver, Pi unboxing [video]
• 2017/03/05 - Google knows best. Samsung S7 redux
• 2017/03/10 - Where was I?
• 2017/03/19 - REdit and Spring is coming
• 2017/03/24 - REdit v0.02, Can't see the terror for the trees, Is InfoSec the correct solution?
• 2017/03/29 - Brexit - Article 50
• 2017/03/30 - Phone woes. Sakura. Photobomb.
• 2017/04/01 - April...Fish
• 2017/04/02 - Girl's school uniforms, Russian style? Crash. E-ink displays.
• 2017/04/06 - IPCAM hacking - new index
• 2017/04/11 - JTAG - figuring out a Wiggler clone
• 2017/04/16 - A little bit of everything
• 2017/04/17 - Doctor Who 10-01 The Pilot
• 2017/04/26 - Truthiness
• 2017/05/09 - Eurovision 2017 - first semi final (RAW)
• 2017/05/11 - Eurovision 2017 - second semi final (RAW)
• 2017/05/12 - Neuros OSD test points
• 2017/05/13 - Eurovision 2017 - grand final (with videos)
• 2017/05/14 - My new satellite receiver
• 2017/05/28 - Eurovision 2017 - grand final random commentary
• 2017/06/09 - Strong and stable, random sci-fi rants (Passengers, Ghost In The Shell)
• 2017/06/17 - I broke my IPCAM but I don't care
• 2017/06/23 - The best DEAL for Britain, IPcam recovery
• 2017/06/28 - REdit v0.03
• 2017/07/02 - Another month, another printer - HP DeskJet 3630
• 2017/07/09 - HP DeskJet 3630 print quality
• 2017/07/23 - Manga, Rants: Charlie, Women, Brexit
• 2017/07/24 - Manga (update), Charlie (update)
• 2017/07/28 - Of banks and bins, 'leccy and Nihongo
• 2017/08/07 - Lolita, Preggie, and Pi 2.
• 2017/08/13 - HP Rewards?
• 2017/08/17 - Pi 2 issues - TemplEd, Zap, DigitalCD
• 2017/09/03 - Brexit, JYE Shell, gender neurality
• 2017/09/09 - Gender neutrality failure, and USB serial blockdriver
• 2017/09/12 - DSO Shell
• 2017/09/17 - BrExit, weather station, DSO Shell, Astrophotography
• 2017/09/22 - SIBA (LATV); SIBA - 1 - Differences
• 2017/09/25 - Tragedy!
• 2017/09/29 - SIBA (LATV); SIBA - 2 - Tunnel
• 2017/10/03 - QuickBlank - useful little screenblanker module
• 2017/10/04 - SIBA - truth and fiction, some locations, and tropes
• 2017/10/06 - SIBA - 3 - Dalliances
• 2017/10/13 - SIBA - 4 - AfterLife
• 2017/10/16 - Freaky sky
• 2017/10/20 - SIBA - 5 - Dead Air
• 2017/10/22 - Playmobil Expo, night photography
• 2017/10/27 - SIBA - 6 - Breaking News
• 2017/11/01 - Pumpkin time!
• 2017/11/03 - SIBA - 7 - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
• 2017/11/10 - SIBA - 8 - Denouement
• 2017/11/21 - SIBA - Afterword, HP Instant Ink, and Resuscitated Hope (adventures with a bread maker)
• 2017/11/26 - ROOL forums, Nuclear contamination, and FirmwareID source and explanation
• 2017/11/28 - Don't buy new headphones if the cable wears out, fix the ones you have!
• 2017/12/03 - Advent, instant ink, and bird girl painting [The Season's Upon Us].
• 2017/12/17 - RISC OS tool pane [Oy Santa].
• 2017/12/20 - The end of POTS (and did I mention I hate Linky?) [I Believe In Father Christmas].
• 2017/12/22 - On holiday! Robot arm kit. [Fairytale Of New York].
• 2017/12/25 - MERRY PIG-OUT-ON-CHOCOLATE-AND-STUFFING DAY! Robot arm, weird foods [cute Japanese organist].
• 2017/12/26 - Doctor Who. Christmas Dinner. Robot arm script interpreter.
• 2017/12/31 - This was the year that was
• 2018/01/03 - The Big Red Button; way to go Intel!, HP Instant Ink, Super Luna!
• 2018/01/06 - Computer cockups for dummies
• 2018/01/24 - A fuzzy logic rice maker and watching TV without a computer
• 2018/02/11 - Brexit, power line, seen in local supermarkets
• 2018/03/10 - Is this what depression is?
• 2018/03/12 - Simple RISC OS SSL fetcher, Linky
• 2018/03/14 - Stephen Hawking, KanaTutor, Geek toys
• 2018/03/28 - Samsung M-2022W laser printer
• 2018/04/01 - RISC OS for all
• 2018/04/06 - 3.5" LCD display
• 2018/04/11 - My homebrew media player
• 2018/04/22 - Flying numpty, Sakura
• 2018/04/23 - Tassimo T-Disc hacking
• 2018/04/28 - Easy tea and more to do with Zap
• 2018/05/01 - Tea in 90 seconds, Zap rick-04
• 2018/05/07 - First experiences with Amazon Prime, Flat Earth
• 2018/05/08 - Eurovision 2018 - first semi final [videos]
• 2018/05/10 - Amazon Pantry, Eurovision 2018 - second semi final [videos]
• 2018/05/11 - Eurovision 2018 - the Eurovision game
• 2018/05/12 - Eurovision 2018 - the grand final [videos]
• 2018/05/20 - Sixteen years in France
• 2018/06/10 - Google's weird questions; Surface (series); PrimeVideo
• 2018/06/15 - Hard Rain, Manga
• 2018/06/24 - Two Years After, Longest Day, food ingredients
• 2018/08/01 - I need a holiday! Luna and friends. Anaglyph 3D. Manga
• 2018/08/10 - On hating. Brexit - FFS! Telescopes [video].
• 2018/08/11 - Tassimo hacking - ITF-6 barcodes
• 2018/08/15 - Minitel 1B
• 2018/08/26 - Minitel online!
• 2018/09/19 - An old printer - HP 3055A - teardown
• 2018/10/02 - Frobnicate - the missing ones
• 2018/10/25 - RISC OS is 'finally' open source
• 2018/11/04 - Koi-Koi for RISC OS
• 2018/11/10 - Rang-tan's story, Koi-Koi update, Advent Calendar, ESP8266
• 2018/11/11 - Armistice and the politics of war
• 2018/11/25 - JESC 2018, EPROM emulator
• 2018/12/02 - Gilets jaunes
• 2018/12/21 - Drone pests and designing software
• 2018/12/24 - T'was the day before Christmas (random things)...
• 2018/12/25 - MERRY PIG- OUT- ON- CHOCOLATE- AND- STUFFING DAY!
• 2019/01/01 - Hello 2019!
• 2019/01/06 - Burger King, instant snails, final tree
• 2019/01/19 - ESP32 (and using it on XP)
• 2019/01/20 - Endoscope, arcade game, and crazy stuff in the paper.
• 2019/02/03 - Rick's Net Radio - full instructions and source code
• 2019/02/10 - So much butthurt (Brexit)
• 2019/02/17 - Samsung Galaxy S9
• 2019/03/16 - Radio silence (Brexit), Vegan murder, Spring is here!
• 2019/04/15 - Sakura and swallows, true Britishness, and other stuff
• 2019/04/22 - Religion, walkie-talkie, satellite receiver dead, vide greniers
• 2019/05/05 - Satellite receiver replaced, Minitel 2
• 2019/05/06 - Nice one, Mozilla!
• 2019/05/08 - Minitel fix (for dim screen)
• 2019/05/14 - Eurovision 2019 - first semi final
• 2019/05/16 - Eurovision 2019 - second semi final
• 2019/05/18 - Eurovision 2019 - the grand final
• 2019/05/19 - Freebie La Poste magazine tablet - Klipad KL6889
• 2019/05/27 - European Elections 2019
• 2019/06/10 - Klipad KL6889 tablet - an inside view
• 2019/06/15 - HeyRick has moved! BASIC is weird.
• 2019/06/19 - Fun with the ABC compiler
• 2019/06/30 - Raspberry Pi 4, ARM jump tables, STM32, Norcroft compiler CPU/architecture types
• 2019/07/13 - Sounds of the 80s, pretty rose, reimagining a dishwasher!
• 2019/07/21 - More memory (for my PC), Playmobil spares, French Frog
• 2019/07/26 - Holiday, Boris, Cats
• 2019/07/29 - Printing to a Samsung SL-M2022W IPP laser printer from RISC OS (updated 2019/07/30)
• 2019/08/14 - GPS, fun with parcels, Google Docs, Google Files
• 2019/09/01 - Proroguing, Livebox Play
• 2019/09/07 - Crashing out and what was what
• 2019/09/22 - The icing on the cake, democracy and mind-changing, EBook
• 2019/09/28 - Mom: 1948-2019
• 2019/09/29 - Erivedge (Vismodegib) killed my mother
• 2019/09/30 - In the After
• 2019/10/05 - Goodbye
• 2019/10/12 - Random stuff
• 2019/10/20 - The future...
• 2019/11/03 - Pumpkin, updates, NetRadio, HP3630 teardown
• 2019/11/09 - How to store a car in France
• 2019/11/11 - Drainage, Fibre optic, Halloween in France, Today, Pizza