My first 'proper' render in #Blender. I know there still a lot wrong here but it will do for now. I present, a 1963 Dalek Book #Dalek in the corridor from The Survivors (episode 2 of The Mutants)

Come off it, Disney+, you’re supposed to make it easy for customers to give you money! However, apprantley the 22 character long, mixed case, alphanumeric with symbols password, is not secure enough for you! Oh well I won’t subscribe then.

Do the Mozilla foundation get irony? I'm not sure they do because I just had this pop up on my machine and I'm not run Firefox in months. No I don't want annoying adds...of any kind! Now removing any trace of Firefox from this machine

Well…, it wasn’t as bad as I feared. #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea… but title is still silly, and hard to type! A good start, lets see if they can keep it going.

Not really sure if I'm feeling excited for tonight's TV Premier of #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndSea I've know about it for so long and heard...not great things about it, that I guess if anything, I just to see if it its as mediocre as I've heard. Lets hope everything I've heard is wrong!

Wow, according to my YouTube report, this year my top watched channel is Watched Walker youtube.com/@watchedwalk... and I’m in the top 0.117% of views for this channel!

Finally starting, my tradional re-watching of seasonal classic, The Box of Delights. I should have started 2 weeks ago if was to match the original broadcast dates.

There is no escape, #ClassicFM has started its Christmas season. Don't get me wrong, I like the channel, but its play list is, limited at the best of time and at Christmas it is very limited! I need to find a new background radio channel till Jan 1st, any suggestions?

Oops, missed the 5:15 start time for my traditional re-watching of episode 1 of The Earthly Child on #DoctorWho day

Happy #DoctorWho Day!

Just installed the Xfce edition of MX Linux on a decade old Dell laptop and it makes it fly, plus it is very ‘pretty’ for an Xfce desktop.

Woo-hoo! #Blender5 is out of beta. I’ve done my bit and donated €50 to the project, a small price to pay for all of this amazing power (and okay, yes a fair bit of complexity!)

Amazing how music can set the mood. Even the washing up can become an epic struggle between the forces of chaos and darkness (the dirty dishes) and those of light and good (Fairy liquid), particularly when listening to music from #TwoStepsFromHell

Well today is grim! It's currently darker outside than when I got up at 06:30 this morning and I'm having to wrestle with the Excel Object Model using PowerShell. Fun, fun, fun!

Talking to a college at work today about the widely disliked Rings of Power series from Netflix (a Lord of the Rings spin off), he delivered what must be one of the most cutting comments I've heard. He said 'it gets better with the sound turned down' Ouch! I've never seen it, so can't comment!

So we get to November and the Christmas adverts start on TV, oh well, I can’t complain too much, I’ve been working on my Chirstmas cards for the last 3 weeks!

I'm burning through those word count targets in my #NovelNovember right now, another 1.9k done today already! I'll need the head start since during the working week, 800 to 1k words a day will be more like it!

Well that's a good session! 1646 words done of the 1667 words needed for today in my #NovelNovember story.

So Novel November (I still think of it as NaNoWriMo) starts for me, right about now...

I had to post about this, not because I’m an AI fan, no, in fact at work I am the departments resident AI skeptic. Of course the reason I post is the name! It can’t be all bad if it’s called Aardvark, can it? 😀 it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

So the big #Affinity announcement is that they have gone free, no subscription, no nothing. This makes them absolutely the choice for personal work which likely means new generations of creatives will learn it and then expect to use it professionally. Adobe should be worried, which is great!

Wow, at my place of work, they really go to town on Halloween! I shouldn't be surprised given all of the creatives here, but this year its everywhere in the building

At the #BristolBeacon again, for #Rickwakeman King Arthur and 6 wives of Henry the 8th.

Errr…what time is it? So confused right now, Hal of my clocks adjust themselves, half don’t, just got to remember which are which! Goodbye BST, hello GMT (daylight saving time to non-Brits)

The stage at the #BristolBeacon tonight for The Australian Pink Floyd

At the #BristolBeacon tonight for the first in 3 shows in the next 10 days or so. Tonight it is the Australian Pink Floyd. After the sort of day I’ve had, I need this sort of epic show!

It’s arrived! My pre-ordered Doctor Who Season 13 the collection box set.

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Nope, its my new side sleeper pillow from Mulisoft

NaNoWriMo maybe gone this year, but I'm still up for the challenge and so taking part in Pro Writing Aid's Novel November prowritingaid.com/novel-november No idea on the title yet (important for me to have a title before I start) or which of my 5 ideas current I will try to write.

Worked from home today and since I never blur my background in Teams meetings, my new BBC 2 clock from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social was on full display and it was a huge hit, everyone said how cool it looked!

Well I can say that the film print used for the Star Trek, The Motion Picture DVD wasn't very good and that the film is better than I remember. Still not ready to call it masterpiece however.

So I’m giving it another go, is it a misunderstood masterpiece or an overly long and very dull film? Star Trek, The Motion Picture

So really what is going on at Affinity? This big announcement 30th October and the fact you can't buy their software anymore is making me worry. They can't be thinking of going subscription, can they? That is their killer edge over Adobe.

Playing around with posting some stuff to YouTube, nothing public yet, 'still learning the ropes'. Does the quality of the original video actually matter? No matter what quality, bit rate or key frame interval I pick, the uploaded video looks the same.

My 70’s era BBC 2 ident clock from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social is even better than I’d hoped for!

Ooh, a new Raspberry Pi machine! Exciting youtu.be/_LYU-I1LzcI?...

Way hey! We've just had the #DoctorWho theme (season 2, Nu Who version?) make an appearance on Classic FM's Friday night at the Movies program

How hard can it be? When it comes to getting a video off an iPhone and editing it, apparently very! Okay, I've never really tried video editing before, but it feels like I might have jumped in at the deep end.

The Mince Pie season is underway! This is the one aspect of the Christian Mid Winter festival I don’t mind starting early.

Just caught my first bus for what must be 2 years or more. I love the fact that the recorded stop announcements are in a local Bristol accent!

Everyone is a critic! My 10 year old Sony DVD player, just died. It popped it's clogs, quite literally while playing the infamous Delaware version of the #DoctorWho theme. Do you think its trying to say something?

Something has annoyed Thor! Time to visit www.lightningmaps.org

Finally, after years (and I do mean years) I’ve got my HP micro server set up in my very ramshackle “home lab” cupboard.

A put down from a particle physicist, ‘If they where any thicker, Neutrinos wouldn’t pass through them!’

Yay! Got my tickets for 10cc’s Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour stop at the #BristolBeacon March next year

Am I going to watch the 10th test flight of Starship tonight? Nope! I still find this very exciting, but just not quite exciting enough to say up till at least midnight. Comfort out weighs excitement for me now!

Just ordered my BBC 2 clock. Definitely the coolest clock you can buy!

Huh, just had to ‘unfollow’ someone on BlueSky. I know everyone has their own opinion, but expressing glee at someone’s, natural death, is not okay. The dead person might have been a throughly unpleasant person (I have no idea), but that sort of response is not right.

The view from the top of Troopers Hill in Bristol UK. This shows how dry it’s been this summer

Was very surprised to almost walk in to a deer on my morning walk up Troopers Hill this morning. I think it was to, we spent a 10 seconds looking at each other before I reached for my camera. I missed the perfect shot of it looking back at me, but here it is.