I like building and customizing PCs. I may not have the latest and greatest hardware, but that’s no excuse for it being loud or ugly.
It all started a couple of years ago. I was recycling an old laptop – and I mean recycling, it was too old to be remotely useful even with a lightweight Linux distro. I always hate the process of generating e-waste, so I pondered what I could possibly do with it. Then I thought about…
My mum loves antiques, and she’s an absolute nut for Art Deco. A couple of years ago I gave her a mechanical keyboard with blue switches for the clicky and a set of Tall Deco typewriter keycaps from Datamancer. but it never sat right with me that she had to plug it into a modern…
I never had an Xbox 360 when it was new, but I remember seeing the Lian Li PC-XB01 case in a PC magazine. I loved the idea of a console in a Lian Li case (this was back when Lian Li cases were known for two things: being fully constructed from aluminium and having obsessive…
I spend a lot of my time creating digital artefacts. Sometimes it’s nice to spend some time working with my hands to create something physical and tangible, and what better project than making one of the tools I use every day quieter and more pleasing to the eye? Continue reading…
Like many IT professionals, I’m still heavily involved in deploying and supporting Windows XP. While most of the compatibility and performance problems with Vista have been addressed in SP1, there is still a clear case for a lot of businesses to run XP for a variety of reasons, mainly revolving around compatibility with third-party applications.…