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The night after I posted my last article, I was brushing my teeth on the way to bed and thinking about what I'd written. I was thinking about the recent transitions of hardware in my home and came to realise there has been something of a revolution. From a landscape that was entirely dominated by...

Framework Laptop. Kids. Looking after your belongings.

A number of mental threads came together and bam! We have an idea for a post. So join me and let's go for a quick trip down memory lane.

The year is 2003. I'm in my second year at university. I've been working part time at OfficeWorks and a...

The year is 2011. My wife and I have been living together for 2 years and she has generously allowed me to turn the back storage room of our then house into a home lab. The back room was a dodgy extension built after the house. I painstakingly ran network cable to the outer wall of the extension a...

Build Your Own Device

This isn't a full review of the Framework 13. There are plenty of those out there. Rather this is a story telling of my experience.

I started sketching out this post back in December 2023. I was part of the Framework 13 AMD pre-order and I finally had my laptop in my hands...

A little over 12 months ago, I posted an opinion piece on travel routers. This is just an update, so for context I recommend clicking this link for a quick read.

Since then my travel router has continued to follow me everywhere. In June 2023 it followed me to the US and back, in December 2023 it came to Beechworth where (tethered to my phone) it provided the family with Internet and directly after that it came with us to Bright where it was used to log into the local caravan park's wifi and (again) distribute Internet to the family. In between all of this it has done the Melbourne to Sydney dash countless times.

Google Photos has to be up there as one of the handiest and most useful products that Google has released. Up there with Maps and Gmail.

I remember the mind blowing experience of being able to search by faces or type "blue car" into a search window to find a photo of my old car.

Going back to th...

Yep. The title says it all.... Action Cameras, for kids. This of course runs contrary to one of my previous posts on my other site, Hike with Kids, in that post I talk about how digital cameras for kids deliver poor potato quality output and that a cheap phone (with camera built in) would be a better option. And yes, I still stand by that statement. And yes, the camera I'm about to talk about DOES deliver some really horrible potato quality photos and video. Yet with all of the above, I'm beyond impressed by this product and its versatility, so much so I went out and purchased the "grown up" version of it.

Let's dive in (as you'll discover, pun intended).

Not a Nintendo. Not a Switch. Not a SteamDeck.

It's something else.

Back in February 2022 Valve released the SteamDeck. A device that took PC gaming and made it accessible to the handheld crowd. Prior to this, the standard approach to getting PC gaming handheld was streaming typically on a mobil...