Kickboxer III: The Art of War
The best Kickboxer movie yet! Which isn't saying a whole lot. David and Xian are in Rio for an exhibition match. A couple of kids end up snatching David's camera in a typical tourist setup. Camera on the table, one kid comes and tries to sell you something, makes a...
Kickboxer 2
I didn't think I'd be back so soon, but plan changes this afternoon gave me some free time to squander. And what better way than by watching a film. I should have picked a better film. But plans are plans and Kickboxer 2: The Road Back was next in line after...
Kickboxer(s)
I have distinct memories of going to the video rental place in Höganäs as a kid. The pinball machines that I adored were there, and I got to play a few rounds with dad. But there was also this promo for Kickboxer as a larger-than-life-size cutout. I thought it was the...
Ubuntu 24.04 Bug
There's a weird bug in Ubuntu 24.04 where some windows cannot be resized if you've got your system set to automatically log in when you boot up the computer. Odd. If you log out and log back in, everything works fine again. But I don't want to have to do that. So I...
GoPro Filenames
I have a GoPro Hero4 Session. This little camera was amazing when it came out. I still think it's still pretty amazing today. (Aside from one annoyance: I can't get Quik to connect to it from my Android phone because it insists that there's a PIN set on it.) It does...
Murderbots
Am I completely enamoured by casting a giant manly man as the androgynous-ish Murderbot? No. Am I excited for Murderbot? Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs I just need to finish reading all the books before it comes out.
Ubuntu.
Was it a flawless transition? Kinda. It would have been better if I'd spent some money on new disks. But I kinda got the shits up when i opened the start menu and there was yet another notification bubble on the gamified thing where you collect Microsoft points for...
Subaddressing
IT security has been in the news lately with the theft of money from superannuation funds. It's bad, but when you consider that they only made off with $500,000 from the $4.2 trillion that Australians have in super funds it's pretty inconsequential. It's not going to...
Blogs are back, baby!
In many ways they never left. But often they were ignored, left to collect cyber-dust and possibly go horribly out of date, needing many updates as they are revived. But they're coming back. The Great Centralisation that started in the early 2000s with the advent of...
Bookwyrm.
I don't read a lot. I think it's because I read slowly. I have occasionally posted reading-log (and one reading-slog) entries here. But I've moved that over to Futzle's Bookwyrm instance. So. If you're curious about what I'm reading: https://outside.ofa.dog/user/KO ....
Windows 11.
Enshittification.noun Colloquial the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking. Macquarie Dictionary word of the year in 2024....
Media.
There are a lot of ways to "do" media in a house. Plex seems popular. Jellyfin, too. In the end they all do vaguely the same thing, it's just a matter of picking the one(s) that will do what you want it to do. I've been a long term Kodi user for TV and Movies, which I...