I am having a bet!, it is one of my few vices, and it shall be on the horses. I don't often have a bet and in fact I generally only ever have a bet on a special occasion, like the grand national or a random parallel bet with my dad.

Now I am appreciating the power and simplicity of ripgrep and have it available on all my systems I was hunting around emacs to see the best way to leverage this tool for quick file searching.

Just some photos from Hilsea Halloween preparations!

I was recently reading a post about deleting files from within emacs and pushing them to the local Trash, this seems like a good idea especially now I am using dired more often.

Horse racing prediction program.

As my emacs keybindings journey continues to evolve and to delete more efficiently with delete word it has lead to an interesting issue for me.

Currently I am just displaying the title of my posts with no filtering. Now that I have developed a general format to help with some emacs Deft categorisation I have run into a little bit of a problem.

I am currently polishing up my web page and I am now focussing on the little annoying formatting / alignment issues.

I am just playing around with writing some sort of "techy" blog, trying to focus on a couple of my favourite things in the world, namely linux and emacs, so I thought I would do the best productive thing in the world and just start to type.

A gradual fading version of a portrait I did for my girlfriends parents.

Just some photos from a visit with Kates parents

My sacred emacs is taking 13 seconds to start up!

Just some photos from a visit with my parents

A commission for my girlfriends parents

All of the books and all of the walls!

Steps to locally download emacs packages for offline installation.

Tired of looking at the same old British grey sky, well then try out some of my crosswords!.

Using ArtRage to enhance some art with texture!

Just some photos from a visit with my parents

Started in Infinite Painter and I wanted to apply a lot of texture in ArtRage mainly utilising the depth of the Oil Brush to define Jabbas skin. I added a tongue from the original reference and subtly introduced Yoda and Luke into the background. The main enhancement from the reference was adding more of a spotlight on the face and enhancing the saturation.

A portrait of a recently passed cat of my girlfriends parents. This took quite a while to get the proportions and the colouring correct. The final touch of a vignette blur worked pretty well which gave the depth of view and brought the focus to the face. I enhanced the eyes with a sparkle which didn't exist in the original reference and of course needed to remember to add in the whiskers.

From an art gallery, far far away!

Any furry thing

A commission I completed using the power of ArtRage. This had a story of a dog scaring a squirrel and being very proud!!