Tony is a Geek

Okay, so I wasn't going to do this, but y'know...I had the purchase of 2 x T-Echo devices "cancelled", so I some "spare" cash available that was close to the price of this device.....I watched a few YTube videos, scanned a few online reviews & then did some research on the CM4 Pi modules, it looks like it should upgrade to handle the CM5 Pi module, so it "should" have a longer usage life. So what is it? a uConsole . It's a tablet, no, it's a mini-laptop, no, it's a ..... well, it's a thingy.  It's an inbetween & I like it. Back in 2007/8-ish I purchased an openpandora.org device, it was way ahead of its time.  It is a single board computer, no moving parts, just a small keyboard, small touchscreen with a stylus, able to handle 2xSD-Cards with external USB, onboard WiFi and Bluetooth.... it was & still is amazing!  So much so that I ended up getting another one, just in case I broke one.  I did end up chipping the co...

So, I finally managed to take a week off... no work stuff was done during this time period ( at all ).  Very hard to resist, but I forced the scenario.  How?  Well, I took a photo of my home/office work desk area, attempting to fix two old PCs and get the netgear pci cards to work ( I failed ).  How did this prevent me from doing work/work?  Well, here is the photo in question: ....and when I looked at it I realised I had subconsciously made a "Sam cave" ( rewind many years ago to a nice old gentleman who I once knew, ex-marconi, fixer of PCs, loved drinking guinness / whiskey, wore sandles all year around, bearded, pot belly, coded in C - the stereotype before the stereotype was made cool - he had a home/office that had a desk and his chair in the center, everything else was stacked around him.  There was only his chair, that, I'd like to believe is so that you could enter the room, stand near the door, but not get too comfy or outstay your 10 minute welco...