Dundee Lad

Damn, where does the time go? Can’t believe it’s been over 12 months since the last entry. I really did intend to make this a regular thing this time. Oh well. Shit happens.

Anyway, while I’m here I might as well add something worth adding. So I recently bought a new 2nd hand vehicle; a 2015 AWD, diesel, Ford Territory Titanium to be precise. Now this sucker has all the bells and whistles for a 10 year old Aussie-made Ford–which isn’t necessarily saying much because Ford always seemed to be behind Holden and others in this regard, but I digress–and one of those is the console Media Centre. This bastard is run by Microsoft Sync™2 which is fine but blimey the information for it is sadly lacking in actual details. So here’s what I’ve learnt about using this 10+ year old software in 2025: 1) do not bother trying to use a USB stick larger than 32Gb because it can only read fat32 and no other format [despite what some other sites have claimed], 2) it does not recognise FLAC but it does recognise lossless WMA, 3) the bitrate doesn’t seem to matter but do not try to use a file with a sample rate higher than 44 kHz.

Hah! Just noticed the date…cos I’m noticeable like that. Gonna post what I had here tomorrow. You’ll see why.

Flatpress. Not included with this hosting services’ Cpanel but to get it running all you have to do is copy the files to your server, and… that’s it. No need to fuck about with MySQL or any of that shit because it isn’t used; which is lucky since I’ve forgotten 99% of it, and can’t be arsed re-learning it all. So let’s see what happens with this attempt.