Category Archives: The common man

The human side of Mr Speaker

Wave rooting, Part III: WävRüta

Monday, November 10, 2008

After such an epic journey, it was going to have to be a pretty impressive 8bit, lo-fi, noisy, multi-mode digital audio FX unit and signal generator we’d be building. And with such a description, how could it not be? Impressive, that is. It couldn’t not be, that’s the answer to that rhetorical question – and […]

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Oi, Sharkie…

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

What’s your email address Sharkie?! Far out….

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My Life – In Computer Years

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Nothing like a major milestone to throw you into a whirl of nostalgic self-reflection. Today I’m 30. 30 years old. Here is a very nerdy retrospective of the computers that made up my life…

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Technical Difficulties and Brain Surgery

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Sorry about the wierdness around here folks… I’ve been away for a spot of brain surgery. The craniotomy so far has not given me any of the special gifts promised by trepanning. I’ll keep a third eye on it though. In other Mr Speaker news, while I was gone my hosting provider (smartyhost) decided to […]

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Happy 51th Post!

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Happy 51th Post

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Beer o’clock. Beer o’clock.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

A handy tool for tracking the time ’till that sweet, sweet end-of-week beer: Beer o’clock – the firefox extension

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Playing with food

Sunday, December 26, 2004

Nutrigrain E.T, and Statle and Waldorf wasabi-peas. What more could you want for your birthday?

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The Old Lady and the handdrier machine

Thursday, November 11, 2004

The old lady and the magpies Google may have noticed that I recently deleted a whole swag of posts from this blog. The posts were all titled “The old woman at the bus stop who I cycle past everyday said:” and the body of the posts contained a (usually one sentance) transcript of what the […]

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Ferries change their tune

Thursday, August 19, 2004

..In a move that could only be described as uninteresting, the ferry greetings and warnings have been re-recorded and altered.

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