Someone at workplace just converted a PNG to a JPG by printing out the PNG image and putting the resulting printout in a flatbed scanner, whereby the resulting scan was automatically saved as a JPG. 🫤

I see the 'ID keeps everyone safe on the internet' campaign continues to not keep everyone safe on the internet.

And this, class, is why aiming at agricultural self-sufficiency rather than spreading risk across different countries through international trade is a *really stupid idea*.

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Pay me to go for a walk next year. Well, pay MNDA, but I'll still do the walking www.justgiving.com/page/mw-wind...

Your favourite Youtube channel has a new video out. But since he's now pulling cars apart (Technology Connections) watch some throbber review Friday The 13th on the C64, Speccy and CPC instead. You'll shit your pants with fright or your money back.* youtu.be/7a6N3ZyTWvM * No refunds.

This is a brilliant dissection of the "Definitive Guide to SNES RPGs". Having read through it, I'm actually amazed that Bitmap Books published it. The standard of writing is significantly below what I expect from their books. Significantly.

For some reason, a local charity shop I looked at during had an ancient issue of PC Format from 1994.

FACT OF THE DAY. 3 October 1990. Communist East German Democratic Republic was abolished and became part of the Federal Republic of Germany thus reuniting Germany for the first time since 1945. People in Berlin celebrated. This day is now celebrated as German Unity Day.

I always wondered where they were based

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Obligatory Bournemouth (from Sunday early afternoon)!

Always remember: If you watch a cool video on YouTube by a small channel, do the following: Like it. Leave a comment (even if it's just to say "cool video"). Share the link to the video. Yes, most of us do our videos for a hobby. But it's nice to know people appreciate them. So share the love.

Ken Campbell once used a medium to contact the ghost of Laurence Olivier. He asked the spirit who was the greatest actor in the world right now, and received the answer “Jackie Chan”. So Campbell rented as much Chan on VHS as possible and watched the lot. “And do you know, the man was RIGHT!”

Saturday morning societal complaint: people should not be allowed to go out in public in their pyjamas on pain of death. Unless they are Arthur Dent, or something.

This seems to have slowed down overnight; I'm thinking some of you maybe missed it yesterday evening and am sure you'll be wanting to sign it today. Right?

If you see this, QTP with a computer game that takes you back to your childhood.

Design Design here, predicting the current AI fixation in this article from 40 years ago. The game they're talking about is 2112AD, I should perhaps give it another look. "And so the country is taken over by a collection of jumped up pocket calculators."

Oxford Brookes now the best university in Oxford

New blog post: PSA: The video game crash was not worldwide reverttosaved.com/2025/09/18/p...

Hoping this isn't true, but I've not been able to access it for several days now. Just when the TVTimes gets added to the BNA as well.

If the BBC really has canned access to Genome, that's one of the best internet resources gone. Say it ain't so.

Calling it now, the main ‘inspiration’ behind Apple’s dreadful so-called Liquid Glass interface design:

Was at just at the flippin’ hospital due to unwellness issues. (Don’t worry, it’ll heal.) Genuinely enjoyed how quiet and chill the place was first thing on a Sunday morning.

We’re in bizarro-world if Nintendo are finally acknowledging the existence of the Virtual Boy…

Obligatory Bournemouth!

One of the earliest articles about the nascent WWW in a (console rather than computer) gaming magazine in this particular issue of SP… One of the websites listed was about something called “retro gaming”, a trend which never caught on.

At the cinema. First advert was for a branch of the armed forces, which was like something from Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, and the second advert was for… Vimto. I think I’ve been sufficiently reminded of why I don’t regularly go to the cinema any more.

Think of BlueSky as Linda Barker/J Nash era Your Sinclair. The page count is down, it's days are numbered, but there's a load of excellent people in one place. Enjoy it while it lasts and sneer at the joyless current gen owners.

I seem to have travelled to a South Korean convenience store, but in fact haven’t even left Bournemouth.

If you want some old crap to put on in the background for an hour with no adverts and would like to hear about computer games where you stop mosquitos attacking your arm, then this may be for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvG...

What people think they 80s were like, versus what the 80s was actually like.

I have reached the age where visiting a Tudor house museum seemed a good use of a Bank Holiday Monday.

If the BBC is trying to save money re its archive it should relinquish its archive to something like the National Archive or the British Library. Either organisation would do a great job of preservation. The BBC cannot get anything right at the moment.

Huh, didn’t know that David “Poirot” Suchet had played The Joker… Always seemed more suitable for The Penguin, IMO.

-Sir, six more people are using VPNs -There'll be no hospital then, I'll tell the children

Things which are not the answer: Digging a network of canals in Bournemouth. Last month someone suggested a monorail, so it’s only a matter of time before there are demands to research and build Star Trek matter transporters.

That time Rod and Emu turned up on Blue Peter and it ended up looking like a painting by Caravaggio

Slightly diminish a band: The Human Conference

Slightly diminish a band: Refurbished Order.

Then: UK govt loses mind Now: Wikipedia loses legal challenge Next: UK loses Wikipedia access? This legislation is way, way beyond porn and stated scope. There is no good reason to age gate an encyclopaedia *at national level* under the guise of protecting children.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that the sheer volume of AI generated shite appearing on YouTube is affecting the reach and views of real human created content, especially for small creators. So do small creators (like me) a favour: If you watch a video, hit Like, leave a comment, and share

Some of the original 35mm presentation slides that I rescued from going in a skip at Ulster Television back around 2009…

NEW VIDEO: Yes pigs might fly. Or aliens. They have taken over the worlds oil supplies and are flying Mig 21 fighters. As aliens do. It's Operation Hormuz aka Harrier Attack 2. Or Harrier 7. youtu.be/CcISwrTI988

No, not the BIC! www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2536506...

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

GenAI has no place in retro computing/gaming. Part of the charm and fun is seeing just how much you can squeeze out of old systems by using as many tricks & hacks as you can. Having a LLM do it for you is really missing the point.