Category: Post

• July 4, 2017

  Clearing Chrome’s DNS cache

  If you ever need to point a domain name at an IP address, for sandboxing during development, or for whatever reasons, then Chrome can be a real nuisance. It seems to cache the domain name and refuses to use your new IP address. Recent versions supposedly monitor /etc/hosts, and if you view the DNS cache…
• June 1, 2017

  What’s Warming The World?

  If you can get over the slightly annoying scroll thing this is a fascinating explanation of climate change. What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise
• May 31, 2017

  American Gods

  

  I’ve been very much enjoying American Gods on Amazon Prime. It’s been a few years since I read Neil Gaiman’s book, but the adaptation seems incredibly accurate to the point where I feel like I’m having flashbacks to reading it. From my understanding the first season is only a fraction of the book, so there’s…
• May 24, 2017

  Zhiyun Z1 Smooth C Gimbal

  I generally don’t take much video – compared to taking photos I find it boring and laborious. Even though there’s a big red record button on my camera I just forget to press it. After returning from a big trip last year I realised I had no video. Literally nothing at all. A year later I’m…
• February 9, 2017

  A clockwork tortoise, a magic tree, and The Beano

  

  I’m not usually one for sentimentality. Most of the things from my childhood have been thrown away, lost, or have otherwise disappeared along the way. Saying that, while digging through boxes I came across some old books. These are books that are old enough, or memorable enough, to have survived the great Kindle purge of the…