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Sunday, 25 June 2023

15 mm Arab Heavy Cavalry (Forged in Battle)

Why is it the last units always seem to take ages? These took a while as I painted them as one group; which I don't normally do. Plus the horses required extra work (see below).

Anyway, I now have all the core units for a wide range of "Dark Age/Feudal" Arab armies so I'm pleased they are finished. It feels like I've finished a project and that is always good.

Sunday, 18 June 2023

15 mm Arab Medium Cavalry (Forged in Battle)

After a run of non-hobby posts, normal service is resumed. These figures came from two packs of light/medium cavalry. I bought two packs so I could have javelin armed light cavalry (which I forgot to photograph) and a mix of javelin and lance armed medium cavalry.

Saturday, 27 May 2023

Twitter, RSS feeds and "Getting a Life"

As I've said before, things change and sometimes not always for the better. Recently, I've been trying to figure out what to do about the changing nature of Twitter.

Background

I've used Twitter since Dec 2010 which, for a web service, is a long time. I recently wrote about my dissatisfaction with the current direction of Twitter and how I'm using Mastodon more and more.

Since then Twitter has got worse. The tools I use(d) to make Twitter bearable (IFTTT & Tweetdeck) have been adversely affected by the recent changes and free tools are disappearing fast.

I've also been increasingly concerned that my use of Twitter has become a waste of time. So my plan is to stop using Twitter; if at all possible. I've been cutting back my usage for a while now but I was still checking Twitter too many times a day: not ideal.

Hardware

Things change and sometimes not always for the better.  Recently, I've been trying to figure out why my desktop computer kept dropping its connection to the internet.

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