Author: Keith

Design changes soon to come for theanorak.org…but first, I’ve bitten the bullet and started buying parts for a Mythbox. I’ll probably use an older machine to start with, but the plan is to recycle my current desktop machine (Athlon XP1700) to give it a bit more power for transcoding and playback of non-MPEG2 content. With… Continue reading It’s a myth

Weird. I’m getting comment spam. What’s weird about it is a) this site doesn’t use WordPress, Blogger, or any of the usual weblog systems – it’s a super-amateurish POS I part stole, part wrote when first learning ASP then hacked bits onto b) There’s only been about 20 posts in the last year or so…and… Continue reading Comment spam

Yes, ok, I bought one. Eventually. It took a while, to find anywhere which actually had one to buy – most of January, in fact. I wound up getting it mail-order from Comet, of all places! It’s noisy, it’s big (especially compared to the slimline PS2 my cousin’s just acquired – that’s teeny), it’s bloody… Continue reading Xbox 360

Went for a couple of drinks with Jaylene last night, who Lou & I worked with about…er…three years ago? Four? It was good to catch up, and to hear she’s doing well. And she’s got a truck (a truck! a truck! etc). One thing I did notice was how a small change to the way… Continue reading Catching up

…radically increase my post count. And other stuff, which was in last year’s to do. In the meantime: a tentative “hurrah!”