Unboxed, a Commodore 64 demo by Bonzai takes scrolling messages to the next level, and it’s even GDPR compliant! Absolutely amazing stuff.
Animals
Magic for animal shelter dogs
To help dogs find their forever home an animal shelter performed magic, literally! I love how the dogs react. 🙂
Apple
error: btn: invalid btn_btree.bt_key_count
I recognised the symptoms: Excessive disk trashing. General slow down. Backblaze and Time Machine causing the rainbow spinner. My filesystem needed first aid. I think I can trace this back to the latest macOS update. I swear that half the updates cause filesystem corruption of some sort, but it also feels like I’m running First Aid at least once a month anyway! Unfortunately for me, the error this time was: error: btn: invalid btn_btree.bt_key_count Apparently Diskutil can’t fix that error. The only thing you can do is erase the drive, reinstall MacOS and then restore your data. I was dreading […]
tv
Mission Impossible: Ireland
The IMF team visited Ireland, in 1988. This is no Tom Cruise movie. This is the 1988-1990 remake of the 70’s hit TV series and I was glued to it. Shame about the awful Irish accents but this was around the time of Far and Away when Tom made an appearance alongside Nicole Kidman with some really dire accents.
Music
Bohemian Rhapsody on FLOPPOTRON
Is this a hard drive? Is this just floppy disk? Caught in a page fault No ESC from reality Open your files Look up to the skies and C:\……..? Sometimes it’s worth reading the comments on YouTube. This one from Yuan Edo.
Podcasts
The Antarctic Whale Hunters
One of my favourite podcasts is Witness by the BBC World Service. In each episode they talk to people who were there at moments in history. There are some amazing stories in their archive. Each episode is an easy to digest twelve to fourteen minutes long. In the latest episode Gibbie Fraser talks about his time on a whale catcher in the Antarctic in the 1950s and 60s. Other episodes that stand out for me: Â Britain’s Little Blue Disability Car Women Nurses during World War One When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola How I Survived a Fire on a Plane Surviving the […]
General
Mind The Gap
Have you ever wondered who the voice behind “MIND THE GAP” is? Wonder no more. Phil Sayer was the voice actor who recorded this phrase and many other phrases used on the London Underground and other places in the UK. While listening to a recent episode of Everything is Alive I heard an interview with Elinor Hamilton. She is a voice actor who can be heard in many train and underground stations in the UK. She told of the comfort she got hearing her late husband Phil announce arrivals and departures as she got off trains, but also her grief […]
tv
People really love the new MacGyver
Check out the reviews on imdb.com! Well, ok. They don’t, but never mind that. Watch a few clips from the original MacGyver series! There are plenty on Youtube.
Bitcoin
Is Elon Musk giving away Bitcoin?
No, of course not. Whenever the title of a post asks a questions, “no” is nearly always the answer. Saved you a click here if you read the preview on your favourite social media platform. This morning I heard on the latest Smashing Security podcast that a verified Twitter account had made around US$10,000 by pretending to be Elon Musk. It was a promoted tweet so many people saw it. Not bad for a few hours work. The scammers are back. I saw this promoted tweet a few minutes ago. Someone at @Monsterjobs lost control of their account. As of […]
C64
Gamebase64 – instant C64 collection
If you had a Commodore 64 in your youth, or you’re simply curious about the games produced for the system then Gamebase64 is for you. Gamebase64 is an effort to catalogue every single Commodore 64 game, along with associated media like music, tape or disk covers, adverts and magazine reviews It’s huge! The latest version is V15 and was released in 2016 holding 25,700 games. The games themselves don’t take up too much data but the artwork, music, and associated material really take up a lot of room. The whole collection is available as 3 ISO files and an artwork […]