I have been told before that I am fairly handy with technology, although I have always been a secret technophobe in many respects (I believe the colonies coined the phrase “luddites”). Either way, I often find myself writing about technology in one way or another.
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.
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January 12, 2020 at 12:00 pm | Articles, Computer and Program Fixes, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Discworld, Discworld Noir
I have one of those email addresses that’s generic enough to be accidentally entered as I signed up for it with a particular service back when they first launched their email service. Without typing it out for all the world to see, it’s basically my name. It’s such a generic…
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December 28, 2018 at 10:30 pm | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: Please just check what bloody email address you have typed before clicking send, Please stop signing up to shit with my email address
…or potentially any modern computer, for that matter! EDIT 26/01/20: this post is wrong. While it provides a method of running Discworld Noir, it’s not the best way to run it in Windows 10. No, there’s a fix for the executable file that some clever bugger came up with that…
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June 15, 2017 at 10:30 pm | Articles, Computer and Program Fixes, Video Games | 6 comments
Tags: Discworld, Discworld Noir
Hi there! You’ve possibly been sent an email from a chap called Sean which contains a link to this web page. Let me explain. I received your email. Your email has been successfully delivered to Sean Patrick Payne. If that’s who you were aiming to send it to, then congratulations!…
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January 7, 2017 at 11:39 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: Please just check what bloody email address you have typed before clicking send, spam
Having been an advocate of Windows 7 being one of the best operating systems ever1 I’ll admit that I have quickly adopted Windows 10 with the minimum of problems. In fact it seems to have sped up my laptop considerably, and certain programs that had buggy quirks actually improved themselves…
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September 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm | Computer and Program Fixes, Technology | No comment
Tags: data recovery, error, fix, Microsoft, Start menu, Windows 10
Like anyone who works with the web, I get restless sometimes and occasionally get a fleeting notion that I need to overhaul and redesign my website. In this case PAYNEful was on its first version, if you disregard the placeholder page that sat on the domain for the best part…
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August 1, 2015 at 10:00 am | Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: Bootstrap, CodeIgniter, CSS, HTML, jQuery Mobile, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, WordPress
Note: if you’re looking for code, there’s a link at the bottom of this article where you can get a copy. This article just explains what the code does. About a year ago, Google mentioned casually that they would be getting rid of YouTube subscription feeds1. Earlier this year they…
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July 3, 2015 at 11:00 am | Articles, Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: Google, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, RSS, XML, YouTube
E31 took place this week, and it was probably the best in terms of announcements for the last two or three years. Game critics are remaining sceptical about some of the announcements, but that’s their job – allow the rest of us to revel in the joy of some of…
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June 20, 2015 at 11:39 am | Random Guesswork, Technology, Video Games | 2 comments
Tags: Arkham Knight, Assassin's Creed, Batman, E3, Fallout 4, Final Fantasy, Hitman, Ico, LEGO, LEGO Dimensions, Mad Max, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Shadow of the Colossus, Team Ico, The Last Guardian, Uncharted
I’ve had a bit of dabbling with reading and interpreting text using PHP recently, specifically for two personal projects: A “translator” that reads in text and converts it to “fake French” (in the style of other silly “translators”). A simple application that reads and organises HTML bookmark files (as in…
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May 15, 2015 at 7:00 pm | Articles, Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: HTML, parsing, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, regex
Sometimes I get really specific problems that nobody else really gets. For instance, I have a comic character who speaks in a stereotypical fake French accent and I find that sort of thing hard to write, so I built a translator to turn perfectly good English into fake French. On…
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May 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm | Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: HTML bookmark sorting, I have way too much time on my hands
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