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31st March 2025 - 00:49 I've had this website since January I think? I didn't bother making the blog page until today. I wasn't sure how to structure it, I couldn't be bother to do link after link after link, sorting through Year, Month, Date. Also nobody would bother to actually sort through all that so this is the best way to get my thoughts seen, a table, like its 2007 again, everything is tables. I was semi inspried by Cory Doctorow's link site Pluralistic.net, although I doubt it will look that nice. I wanted to use his font but it's paid for, and I was struggling to add Lucon, so I went to google fonts and found the next best thing, Sometype Mono.

Anyway. I have almost exact one month until my final year in Uni is done, its so scary. I'm way behind on my dissertation because my advisor didn't respond to my emails and I'm expected to get 100 participants in a month, get feedback, analyse and then write it up. It's do able but man I wish I could have been on top of it. For once I was trying to be, but my advisor just wasnt playing ball. I was supposed to be doing my Lit review, or my methodology write up, only about 2k words each but I just can't bring myself to do it, I'm a bit too nervous to face it right now, but at least my questionnaire is done. Might post that here when it's ready, unlikely to get any responses from here but it'd be cool if I did. I keep wanting to stop typing because I'm rambling but thats what a blog is, right?

I do wish I was better at web dev, I'd love to make a cool, retro CLI website. I hate CSS, its boring, too finicky. Maybe I'll learn some more advanced web dev tools, doubt it. I've been watching a bunch of stuff on 3D printers, I'd love one but I should really learn to drive first, get a car, focus on getting a job using my degree, and I'm cheap. I want a Banbu Labs A1, even if they are propritary (cringe) it just seems super friendly, and 3D printing is a little more involved than I thought, and than what the name suggests. I'd also love to get back into WoW but its too much of a time sync, NEED to focus on my diss (the irony). I've been regularing a cool forum called RejectConvinence, its owner, a youtuber by the same name, has a lot to say about dumb phones, I'm all for cool, privacy respecting tech but not having a smart phone is a step too far, but it's a cool place to find websites, tech news, other stuff, I just wish it had a larger fan base. Add me on there, Speb, I have the Data profile picture, seemed fitting for an old bulletin board style website. I think I'm done writing, just wanted to finally get a blog post out, I'll get a link for my survey out on here, post it on that same forum also I think. Im not sure how I'd react if somebody I knew found this, they know this is my nick name, I think I'd be embarrassed being open because its not who I am. Probably gonna go read Walkaway, new Doctorow book, I'm a little obsessed with him right now lol. Oh also I'll get some privacy tools up on my resources page soon enough, I have got quite a collection for my diss. GOD now i gotta go clean this table up with some CSS. I hate CSS. :P
6th April 2025 - 8pm Been a week since I first wrote a post, I've made a lot of progress on my diss. Got about 60 responses on the survey in about a week, very cool, and have done about 16 pages on my privacy booklet. I'd say its about half way done. I'm going on holiday on the 8th so when I get back on the 16th I gotta lock in hard. I still have all the write up to do but it should be a few days of hard work and we are good. I wont upload this straight away, gotta be a quick one cus my laptop is low on power. Had some struggle with Linux as well recently, I'l go into detail about that soon, on the next post. Hopefully not a week away.
16th May 2025 - 20:43 Its been far more than a week now. 1 Month and 10 days, even more considering I never uploaded the second blog. So I handed in my diss, and went to an event to show off my poster I created for it, alongside the booklet I created for it. I'm not sure how I've done, I put a lot of time and effort into it, its just not the most technical peice of work considering other people at my uni's dissertations. Since the orginal post, I felt like updating the blog but now im writing, I have nothing to say. Now Uni is offically done, hopefully because if not it means I didnt pass, I'm enjoying some time off, not stressing over work. Im learning to drive in June, getting my first tattoo also which will be cool, its long over due. Because where I live, I need to drive in order to get a job with my degree in my home town so I dont expect to be looking until the end of the year, which is a shame but I have a fun job in the mean time, even if it isnt the most hours or money.

I'm still not sure about having a blog, I mean the website is ugly, I'd like to improve it but I'm not sure I care that much, I just hope people dont find it, its fun to have up and to dump my thoughts out, but everything stays around on the internet so I still need to be careful with what I put.

I have been watching a lot of show lately, mostly anime, I rewatched Inital D season one, im watching Death note for the first time and trying out Frieren, After Journeys End because since Delicous in Dungeon S1 ended, I felt like I needed a solid fantasy anime again. Im also watching Andor season 2, started it today, I started Mad Men and continued Mr Robot, Drive to Survive and I'm inbetween 4 books right now. I really cant keep my focus on one thing and its super frustrating, I'm not sure why I have trouble holding interest. Oh and Dexter, and Black Clover plus a ridiculous amount of other shows that I started and never finished. Oh yeah I'm looking at getting a civic for my first car, the car is a little pricey, I could get something cheaper but I've always been so responsible with money, I dont want to be for once, I just want to get something I want. I'd also like something reliable and something I can work on, even though I might not end up doing that.

There is an extremely loud, extremely annoying humming sound inside the building I live in right now and its super annoying I cannot think at all.

I'm not sure if I am scared of the future now I'm done with uni, or excited, I want to drive, I'm looking forward to my Holiday and summer, I can finally spend time with friends in my home town. Its weird I kind of feel like a dead beat not looking for a job right now, like im just prolonging the inevitable. When I get moved out of my accomodation I'll feel better I think. I'd like to move far away (cliche?) and get a job else where but thats super unlikely. The sound has just stopped, thank god. I'd like to find a place to play DnD again once I move back home, I miss it after it ended back in March, and get serious into sim racing again after not being able to in my small flat, as well as do some electronics, I'm thinking a Pwnagotchi, and I wanna run my own PiHole and create a little retro game emulator, these will hopefully keep me busy over Summer, I am really looking forward to Summer for once, hopefully I can drive before it ends, and I also need to find a way to make up for not doing anything for my 21st birthday sometime this year, I'll try find some ideas, I'm thinking glamping, or just camping, its cheaper, probably up in Scotland when I can drive. Anyway I have seriously rambeled on and I wanna finish this episode of Death Note. Hopefully I update this blog more often, feels like a good habit.