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Welcome to the next installment of what's becoming an accidental series as I build my business. The transition from internal staff member who blends their time between office and work from home to full time consultant has required a few subtle changes and a few not...

Melbourne. The city I've always called home, a blend of artistic flair and bustling commerce. Lately, I've found myself navigating this vibrant landscape in a way I never anticipated: as a remote worker, carving out pockets of productivity between meetings, armed with just my laptop and a quest for...

Time and again my wife has heard me explain that I'm an aspirational gamer. I aspire to have the free time for it - just a little bit of pure me time, but there's always too much going on.

I'm not going to pretend I'm life's victim however, both my wife and I are on an almost never ending sprint...

In the era where Australia was being explored, there was an explorer named Hamilton Hume or Hamy as his friends liked to call him. Hamy wasn't only an explorer, he was an avid collector of potholes. Large potholes, small potholes. Potholes that will just inconvenience you up to potholes that will bu...

Two posts in a day? Post number two mere hours after this one?

Well, I posted about the fast Internet and then realised I failed to mention a critical other topic - is it secure?

Turns out no - no it's not secure. And this isn't necessarily the nightmare you may imagine however Android and iOS...

I'm currently sitting at the dining room table of a cabin. The cabin is in a camp site. The camp site is a Big4 in the Gold Coast.

It's not exactly the sticks, but it's not exactly a high density urban environment either.

We're in the Gold Coast because my daughter has a sporting competition tha...

I've written previously about my Framework 16 laptop and the STM Dux laptop bag that I purchased for it. They're a potent combination. My Framework 16 will come with me most places as a device to consolidate drone footage, video, etc.. The Framework 16's dGPU makes light work of encoding video w...

Uncloud yourself

As I sit here putting thoughts to keyboard to write this post, I can't help but marvel at the number of portable USB SSDs that are just sitting on my desk. There was a period of time where I was absolutely certain that the days of USB storage where entering their twilight, that it...