I’m back on Youtube again with more tat! This week we’re looking at the C.H.I.P. It’s a cool little device that runs Linux and does lots.

I work for a Microsoft dependent company. We do some interesting stuff with non Windows platforms from time to time, but at the centre of my workflow is Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook It’s a fact I’ve struggled with and tried to change but, to be honest, it’s not going to change at any major rate. I’ve experimented with using free software at work in the past, but it’s not gone well. My attempt to use Virtualbox was shut down - I had to provide licenses for all software I used in it. Our IT Director apparently didn’t take kindly to 15 or so copies of the GPL2+, GPL3 and some BSD licenses taking residence in his mailbox, so it came off regardless. I tried Libreoffice, but apparently when you already have an equivalent tool supplied by the business, that’s what you’re required to use. …

So, uh, youtube happened again. Looking back at my old history on the yaldest, I get the impression I’m pretty good at this youtube thing. I’ll do more of it.

Tom and I were happy to announce the first 57N Stupid Shit No One Needs Hackathon last week. I maintain he forced me to send the email, but I kind of enjoyed adding my stuff to it. It turned out to be a really cool weekend of creating for the sake of creating, which I’ve not done for aaaaaaages. I wanted to make a BBS door game to tie into my mysterious BBS project, so I made FuelSim - the dynamic, exciting game which places you into the mysterious, unexplored world of an Andorran fuel station. …

Yeah, yeah yeah I’ve been busy. I’ve been working on lots and I’ve not been blogging. My buddy yakamo tells me I’m bad because I don’t blog enough. I agree, yeah, but I can’t be bothered detailing everything I do down to an exacting level because I’ve got shit to do. So you should probably meet my wiki, who lives at foxk.it - it’s a way to keep myself a bit more organised. At the moment it’s mostly radio and notes to myself. …