The picture is of my gym locker padlock. It is a three-wheel model, which means it has 1000 possible combinations. Considering it has to protect a gym bag with an inhaler in it, that is good enough. In

Who is to be held accountable? In Australia and Finland (and I assume many other countries) private gun storage laws are quite strict and require the gun to be stored unloaded, behind lock and key, and

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" _Thumper While I agree with the sentiment that we should be kind to each other, I also believe that this kind of mentality has been

Smallsteps and I watched A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough, and I found it really good. It was released in 2020 when David was a young 93 years of age (he is 100 now), and had footage of him back

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Leaving Undeparted The leaves of trees, they come and go, Arrive in Spring and then fall away. In between the whitened ends of years, They bring fresh hopes that will not stay. Rains will fall and winds

I never met my grandfather on my father's side, as he died well before I was born. However, back in Malaysia he worked as a postmaster, a post office manager in their Malaccan town, and during Japanese

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

For my birthday I got tickets to see Jimmy Carr perform his latest stand-up routine. Carr's style and humour is not to everyone's taste, since he tends to do a lot of one-liner comedy, but it is incredibly

I have a meeting this morning in the city and sitting in an almost empty café in a shopping centre, waiting. While I have been here, there have been several app delivery people come and go, picking up

Do you trust yourself? It seems like such a silly question, doesn't it? Why wouldn't you trust yourself when we each believe that we are the ones who no ourselves the best. Yet consistently, we are found

Every time I read an article about the increase in medication given to children for ADHD and depression, it saddens me. As far as I see it, it is the continuation of the trajectory further into the void

I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act. _ Ben Harper What a great line. It is from the Ben Harper song, "Steal My Kisses" on the album Burn to Shine from way back in 1999. The whole

I often come across stories and comments from various people defending how influencers and content creators do a lot of work in order to be successful. And I get it, because unless already famous, yes,

Automation doesn't have to be the best to replace humans, just better than the average. At least in my observations, many people don't fully appreciate or even understand this. They think that an AI for

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Setting Suns Once rose dreams of a forever home, A place head can lay and heart can rest. Comfort from cold where gardens bloom, Protected from long past brokenness. Dancing across forest brimmed lakes

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

A long, long time ago I used to play FPS - namely Ghost Recon series and Battlefield. I was pretty good at them and especially for Ghost Recon, would often get accused of cheating by people I was pwning.

I like the art of graffiti. I dislike useless graffiti. There is no art in tagging or woofshit, throw-up pieces painters on public and private property. It is worse when these shitty "artists"