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Sep 12, 2025 ∞

This week’s earworm’s an interesting one. It’s Intro, on the album Recomposed, by Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald. Finding a legitimate copy is tricky: I’ve only found this version of questionable provenance on YouTube Music. It’s also on Music for Programming, which is where I discovered it. 🎵

Sep 2, 2025 ∞

📺 Brian Will: Object-oriented Programming is Bad

Enjoyed this video about what makes OOP crummy. No spoilers but it’s not what you think (or it wasn’t what I thought). Didn’t agree with every argument but still quite though provoking.

Aug 15, 2025 ∞

This week’s earworm: QE2, by Mike Oldfield. 🎵

Review of QE2, by Mike Oldfield, 1980. Review is as follows: like many things Oldfield, it took me a while for this to grow on me. It started with Wonderful Land (actually a cover from The Shadows), followed by Taurus 1 and QE2 respectively. I only grew to like the remaining tracks this week. All really good. Early Oldfield, so take from that what you will. But still good music. Rating: Liked It.

May 27, 2025 ∞

Might be a bit early in the week but I’m calling it now: this week’s earworm is very likely to be songs from Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel. 🎵

Quick review of Eurovision Song Contest 2025 album, by Various Artists. Rating: Good. Review text as follows: Entries from Germany and Denmark are real favourites so far. Other tracks on rotation include entries from Iceland, Ireland, Estonia, Spain, Sweden, San Marino, and the Netherlands. All boppy tracks, 'tis true, but what can I say: I'm a sucker for Eurodance.

And I make no apologies for this. Well, maybe some apologies to Kev Quirk. 😁

May 25, 2025 ∞

📺 Andor: Season 2 (2025)

May 12, 2025 ∞

There’s also this series of videos by the same creator that goes in depth on how the Super Mario Bros. levels are encoded in ROM. This is even more fascinating, as they had very little memory to work with, and had to make some significant trade-offs, like allowing Mario to go left. 📺

May 12, 2025 ∞

If anyone’s interested in how levels in Super Mario Bros. 2 are encoded in the ROM, I can recommend this video by Retro Game Mechanics. It goes for about 100 minutes so it’s quite in depth. 📺

Apr 4, 2025 ∞

This week’s earworm: Chronology, by Jean-Michel Jarre. 🎵

Quick review Chronology, by Jean-Michel Jarre (1993). Rating: Liked it. Review text is as follows: I probably like this album more for the memories of when I play it: day-trips just outside of Woodend. But there’s no denying that it’s still good music to listen to.

Mar 31, 2025 ∞

📺 Reacher: Season 3 (2025)

Quick review for Reacher, Season 3 by Nick Santora (2025). Rating: Liked it. Review is as follows: I was looking forward to this one, given that The Persuader is my favourite of the Reacher novels. And yeah, you’re never going to get everything from a TV adaptation. But they pulled it off yet again. A very well done season. Liked everything about it.

Mar 20, 2025 ∞

This week’s earworm: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Original Game Soundtrack). Might be all the Godot stuff I’m doing at the moment. 🎵

Quick review of Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, by Wise, Kirkhope, Griffin and Murdoch. Release 2019. Rating: good. Review text as follows: It's a game soundtrack by David Wise: what more needs to be said? I've not actually played the game yet. Looks to be quite fun, and the music fits the theme quite well. I'm just happy to listen to the soundtrack. It's that good.

Feb 27, 2025 ∞

This week’s earworm: 140 OST. 🎵

An album review for 140 (OST) by Schmid from 2018. Rating: Liked It. Review: If you’ve seen the game before, it’s clear that the composition took game-play as priority over the needs of making a song-like song. That is the right decision, but it does make the music laking in consistent themes for those that want something to listen too. But it’s still a good listen if you like EDM music.

Feb 6, 2025 ∞

Recent earworm: Samplextra, by Lee Rosevere. 🎵

Quick review of Samplextra, by Lee Rosevere. Rating: good. Review: I’ve only recently discovered this album a couple of weeks ago, and although many of the tracks are yet to grow on me, the 1st and 3rd are great.

Feb 2, 2025 ∞

My latest YouTube binge has been Drew Gooden, and his videos on YouTube and Instagram influencers and trends: an area of online culture I know nothing about. I’m kinda glad that I stayed well away from that area of the internet. Seems like more drama than I can handle. 📺

Jan 5, 2025 ∞

📺 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

I can't help feeling that less could be more here. It might be a bit much to ask for fewer references to past films, seeing that this could almost be described as a sequel to The Wrong Trousers. But I do wish they'd toned down the callbacks a bit. They felt excessive and unnatural at times, as if they were shoehorned in (the 'cracking toast' line, for example). That said, it was still a decent watch.

Dec 16, 2024 ∞

Finished Mind Over Magnet. It’s been a joy watching this come together over at GMTK, and it’s wonderful to see it finally released. Such a fun and delightful game. Two thumbs up: 👍👍

Dec 12, 2024 ∞

📺 House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024)

Nov 23, 2024 ∞

📺 House of the Dragon: Season 1 (2022)

Title: House of the Dragon Metadata: Season 1 (2022) - Ryan Condal Score: Good Review: Ah, nice to be back in Westeros again. I was late to this, but people said it was good, and they were right. This was an enjoyable watch. Stunning cinematography and sound design. The acting was decent, although maybe a little too dramatic. And the plot was excellent. I can understand and believe everyone's motivation, and it didn't descent into fan service (it would've been so easy to have Mr. Stark show up for no good reason. I'm glad they resisted). Looking forward to starting the next season.

Nov 21, 2024 ∞

This week’s earworm: Electric Light Orchestra, especially Livin’ Thing. 🎵

Nov 10, 2024 ∞

If anyone’s interested in the history of Melbourne transport, I can recommend this YouTube channel. He has a few videos on the “forgotten freeways” — freeways planned in the 1960’s that never got built — that I found quite interesting. 📺

Nov 6, 2024 ∞

📺 Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)