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A screenshot of the Apple Store showing a 16" MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip in the Space Grey colour, with 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage.

Happy New MacBook Pro Day! 🎉 This will be a worthy upgrade from my Late 2013 27" iMac. Now I just need to find a decent high-DPI external display...

Posted on 19 October 2021, 9:29

A photo of a BUNCH of big boxes containing all battery-powered equipment: lawn mower, blower, plus an edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachment and the head they attach onto. Also a shoulder strap and a pair of polarised protective glasses.

We've also gone whole-hog and replaced ALL of our outdoor gardening equipment with battery-powered stuff from a company called EGO. It's apparently extremely well-regarded and is as good as petrol so I'm keen to see how it goes.

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Posted on 12 October 2021, 13:00

A photo of two small circuit boards with various chips on them.

Woohoo, my two extra ESP32s arrived, and just in time for my four-day weekend! Going to be doing a bunch of mucking around with MQTT.

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Posted on 30 September 2021, 11:11

A photo of the MadCatz Rock Band MIDI adapter controller, used for plugging my drum kit into the Xbox 360 for use with Guitar Hero.

Aww yisssss! (Now hopefully it works with Guitar Hero... I've seen anecdotal reports that it does, but nothing official from the manufacturer). Also this controller is over ten years old now and the plastic is doing that weird thing where it gets sticky, so I'll need to clean it up.

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Posted on 9 August 2021, 13:39

A photo of two cardboard boxes and a pair of drum sticks.

Oh hell yeah, in continuing with the "Stuff arriving earlier than expected" theme, my drum stool, kick pedal, and drum sticks were just delivered!

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Posted on 2 August 2021, 11:16

A photo of an assembled Roland electronic drum kit.

Good news! The drum kit is set up and works perfectly. Bad news, the reason there was a delivery estimate of Wednesday and why I received the drum kit today is because the kit was shipped directly from Roland's warehouse in Dee Why, but the drum stool, kick pedal, and drumsticks are coming from the place I ordered them from in Newcastle, and those three things are what're arriving on Wednesday. 😛

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 14:20