A fair amount of these are originals from the mid-90s when I picked them up at the local newsagent. I’ll … Continue reading
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Fever in 2022!
It was late Wednesday afternoon, I was at work. It was boring. Sniff, sniff. Allergies? Hopefully. Fast forward 24 hours. Fever! I was under attack by a foreign body. Temperature peaked at 39.5°C at which point I ruled out allergy … Continue reading
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Upgrades
Just a quick little update. I’ve started using HDR on videos now, fairly consistently. They should really pop when viewed on hardware has HDR support. I’m noticing the change from non-HDR to HDR far more than I used to.
I’m … Continue reading
COVID-19 Approaches
Three of our staff at work are off with coronavirus infections after testing positive on their rapid antigen tests (RATs). One other has been hit prior to these three. Above is a test I did. I tried to photoshop it … Continue reading
Cloudflare CDN v2
Those who are long-term subscribers would remember way back in 2016 I tried to migrate to Cloudflare. I have been hesitant to migrate from my little home server to the big world wide CDN web. That move was made, again, … Continue reading
The ASSEMbler Games Archive
Assembler Games was a large part of my online presence in the 2010s and had a great bunch of people to converse with about retro hardware. For the history of Assembler Games, you can check out this archived link – … Continue reading
Shane McRetro’s Christmas Video 2021
The end of the year has arrived and I’m in isolation waiting for a work colleague to return a negative PCR test for COVID-19. The … Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt Certbot Domain Listing Order
Honestly, I didn’t realise this, but it turns out the first domain listed when running Certbot becomes the main domain on your ssl certificate. By rejiggering the order I was able to have mcretro.net displayed proudly.
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Blood Plasma Donation #13
Today was plasma donation #13 and overall 33rd donation. Nothing went wrong, as usual. I’ll be getting my iron levels checked before the next whole blood donation in roughly a month. Peripheral haemoglobins were rocking 159g/L which is back where … Continue reading
Blood Plasma Donation #12
With all my vaccinations up to date and my iron bolstered, it’s back to my relatively regular, varied (and somewhat) scheduled programming. I stopped by the local blood donation centre (see above) and had a rather interesting visit today. Interesting … Continue reading
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