Blogsplosion

Blog posts written on a variety of subjects with differing levels of mania. I will be back-porting old posts from PAYNEful v2 in due course, so keep an eye on the home page for when posts are re-added.

• 24/10/2026 - Welcome Back to PAYNEful! - All because of a bloody PHP CVE. Tsk.
• 12/01/2020 - How to Actually Play Discworld Noir on Windows 10 - You don't need virtual boxes to run the best detective / Discworld game ever made. You just need to trust an executable downloaded from a random website, it seems.
• 28/12/2018 - The Saga of People Keep Using My Smegging Email Address to Sign up to Stuff - Seriously, stop it!
• 15/06/2017 - How to Get Discworld Noir Working on Windows 10 - ...or potentially any modern computer, for that matter!
• 21/01/2017 - The Hungry Games - In which Sean pits beloved characters from his childhood against each other for survival.
• 07/01/2017 - So You've Emailed the Wrong Email Address - Stop it!
• 16/11/2014 - So I Built a Fake French Accent Translator - In which I try to justify why I made this absurd thing.
• 04/10/2014 - Spammers Say the Creepiest Things - I hesitate to point out that this was pre-A.I., before machines could think.
• 31/08/2014 - I Did the ALS / MND Ice Bucket Challenge (in Style) - I wore a bucket of ice-cold water, which was the style at the time.
• 07/05/2014 - Derren Brown is a Malevolent Supervillain - You're thinking of an elephant right now, probably.
• 20/10/2013 - No Dogs Please, We're Cat People - In the age old battle of cats vs. dogs, Sean picks a side when his life is invaded by the latter. 🐈
• 24/01/2013 - Spammers Say the Most Poetic Things - It's an interesting proposition to try and use spam as content without tanking the website ranking in the process for containing spam.
• 08/07/2009 - The Great Deviant Slaughter of '09 - Clearing out his DeviantArt account's watch list, Sean has an existential crisis over his digital legacy.
• 06/02/2009 - That's Just Not PC - In which a young Sean laments the death of his PC's motherboard, and struggles to deal with the quirks of the replacement.