July 2016

Back in March 2012 I replaced a fuse in a Sega Mega-CD, and the good news is these PICO parts are still around. The parts I was considering here have a different current rating. Before replacing a blown SNES or Super Famicom fuse, first confirm that the original fuse is... Continue reading

We’re live and ready to sell, operators are waiting by the phones for your order. Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo GameCube and even the Sega Mega-CD have chips available right now. Shipping starts at $2. If you’re after something specific, I might be able to point you in the right... Continue reading

I had been using roughly 500 g to 1 kg per week as my own target rate. My running average for this year’s weight-loss effort was around 1.13 kg per week. The sharp little movement around the blood donation is interesting, but I should not have described the graph as... Continue reading

Vegemite. It is in our blood. Too bad it’s owned by the multinational Mondelez… That aside, while recently expanding my palate to include foods such as salmon, lemons and garlic powder… ha!… I came across this beast: Salt Reduced Vegemite. What really caught my eye was not the reduced salt... Continue reading

Since late 2014 I’d noticed the blood-donation van turning up every few months, so I figured why not give some blood? Wish I had discovered this thing earlier, as giving blood can even be kind of fun and, at the very least, FREE CANDY! It is not entirely without its... Continue reading

The box above is the Sakura Wars 2002-2006 song collection, released in December 2006, with eight discs of amazing music. But what’s this next image? You can imagine my delight when I discovered I’d only been listening to the second eight-disc collection. There was another eight-disc Sakura Wars Complete Song... Continue reading

First off let’s start the day by reporting that Winamp 2.95 works great with CrossOver 15.1. I’m sure I’d used it in the past and it wouldn’t output audio, but now - it does! Pretty important for an MP3 audio player to be able to play MP3s. On the software... Continue reading

Sonic tunes done up in ragtime. I’m hardly the type to be easily impressed, but when it came to watching Tom Brier work the piano using Sonic music as his base… incredible! The next upload is billed as a sight-reading performance, which makes it even more impressive. Ok, ok, enough... Continue reading

The shop is starting to come together quite well. I’ll only be selling a small selection to start with, but it looks like it should scale nicely if I need to add more products. The XenoGC is one example: I picked up a few for myself and a few for... Continue reading

That’s a much clearer picture of the journey I’m on. Happy I’m heading in the right direction, hope I can continue to trend downwards! The six-month view makes the shorter-term trend much easier to see. Continue reading

Nailed it! I knew I could work out how to get a darned IRC server up and running. Now you can spam my name into the chat and it will alert me like mad that you’re trying to chat, unless I’ve turned off the volume or remembered to type /away.... Continue reading