The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / February 29, 2024 / John / 0
The Web is dead, consumed by adverts that chase you around the page, cat memes and pr0n. I remember when it was full of the promise of free information for everyone and then the fucking suits arrived. I guess I’m guilty of aiding and abetting them.
Ramblings / May 17, 2022 / John / 4
So, it looks like I’m averaging a post a year at the moment. That’s a bit shit. I guess it’s the nature of the way things are going – not much point in spending time expertly crafting a pithy and concise blog post when I can spew every minor thought that lurches through my mind
Ramblings / July 28, 2021 / John / 0
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
Ramblings / August 11, 2020 / John / 0
There is a scurrilous rumour circulating that Abe Yospe’s wife googles things really quickly to prove him wrong. This is untrue.
Ramblings / February 12, 2020 / John / 0
You’re welcome. You can download it by right-clicking here and selecting “save link as..”.
Music, Ramblings / September 12, 2019 / John / 0
Nice to be in Orbit by Mare Undarum
Ramblings / September 6, 2019 / John / 0
It seems platform upgrades are the only time I post here now! Anyhoo – the Raspberry Pi 3B+, grand though it was, was struggling a bit with running MariaDB, so I’ve upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4. Quad core, 4Gb of RAM and a wee fan to keep it cool – it’s a compact wee
Ramblings / August 30, 2019 / John / 0
So I was wondering how Eventide could possibly get away with charging $200 for their Blackhole reverb VST plugin. I downloaded the demo, fired up the Toraiz AS-1 and played the Bladerunner intro. Oh. That’s why it’s $200.
Ramblings / April 15, 2019 / John / 0
I’m a big fan of storytelling in video games. The scripted stories in big RPGs can vary dramatically between the purely functional setups of things like Diablo to the heartbreaking sagas of Final Fantasy VII or X. The silly procedural stories that drop out of the bottom of Dwarf Fortress are, for me, one of
Ramblings / November 30, 2018 / John / 0
It’s been a while since The Temple had some maintenance. It’s been hosted on a variety of machines over the years; an SGI Indy, a Sun ELC, various FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD and Solaris PCs, and a couple of Virtual Machines running Ubuntu. With home broadband running at perfectly acceptable speeds and the increasing availability of