OMG! The UK’s Ministry of Defence tried to hack my Paypal. (Not)

I wish I had words for this. I’m afraid I don’t. It’s badly written. They’ve tried to make the Paypal logo using regular fonts. Half the sentences make no sense whatsoever. And the best bit? The IP address given resolves back to the UK’s Ministry of Defence. I wish I had the time to follow…

Darth Trump. It Is Beautiful. It Is Amazing. And We Should Share It Around The World

Because comedy is always the best way to make really scary people look like complete and utter fools. That’s what Trump is. A complete and utter fool, who has enough money to be heard. And that makes him a really scary, xenophobic fascist who needs to be shown for what he really is. After all,…

Now Upgraded With Shiny, Small Things!

Dear people of the Internet, You’ll have noticed in the past few weeks that the www.aminorjourney.com domain has been somewhat missing from the Internet. This is because this site is hosted on an old MacMini G4, complete with a thoroughly ancient spinning hard drive which has, it seems, completed its useful life in this world.…

Resurrequiem – Part of the Four Year Harvest

So, in the past few weeks, I’ve found myself talking about my previous life — as a classically-trained oboist — with several different people. And one of the pieces that I’ve never got around to sharing is Resurrequiem by Julia Usher — a piece commissioned for my final graduating recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.…

There’s This Book, And You Should Read It.

<Geekmode squee=”true”> The Martian by Andy Weir is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time. I’ve read it more than once. In fact, I’m half-way through my third audio reading of it. And you need to read it because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CumZP6_9sHU No, see, I’m serious. It’s going to be…

Smartly Using the Cloud — And Reusing Old Tech

If you’re a regular viewer to this site — and I doubt few are given the low, low Google Analytics figures for this domain — you may have noticed a new, smart theme and a few changes in the past few days. That’s because after hosting my site on an AWS instance, I’ve gone a…