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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Loving the refreshed look on my PSP with the aftermarket keys for some contrast. Not sure I'm loving the need for high-contrast buttons at my age. Always good to fire up Gran Turismo, though.

A Sony PlayStation Portable, with aftermarket high-contrast buttons fitted, playing Gran Turismo.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Many years ago, at O'Reilly ETech conference, there was a game of Werewolf. I decided to play 'the crazy villager' and just disrupt everything with incorrect logic and statements. Can't think why it's come to mind this morning... (tagging @kevinmarks.com @suw.bsky.social who I think were there?)

Richard E Grant, seen here, is going to have "I'ma traitor" following him for the rest of his life.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 28/09/2026

This week's album going on heavy rotation in the cassette player is going to be Smokie's Greatest Hits. Wow and flutter, limited frequency bands, the basic paper speaker cone in the cassette player door... All the formative sounds of my music right there. Lets crank it up until it distorts

The Klim K8 modern cassette player with bullet in speaker, and a copy of Smokie's Greatest Hits

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Gillian Anderson in her best Ian Fleming as James Bond, James Bond pose

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? "You stay. I go. No following."

A scene from The Iron Giant, a metallic finger is touching a boy's forehead.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Callie and Kelday, the newly rescued chaos cats, had a few matts of hair. So, err, some help was needed.

Callie (a black tortie cat) is in the process of being groomed. There is a pile of cat hair in front of her that looks to be the same size as Callie.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Meet Kelda and Callie, the new Chaos Demons, who are coming to stay with us. Amazingly, given their size, they are six years old. Callie (the darker floof) is a quiet and systematic explorer and will head-bump all the time. Kelda (tortie floof) is tiny and has two speeds “full on” and “sleeping.”

A scraggly black tortoishell called Kelda (l) and a slightly more serene chocolate tortoiseshell called Callie (r) trying to be a crown on their owner's head.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 27/08/2026

This is a rough week... Peter Cullen RIP '“His family asks that you honor his remarkable legacy by serving your communities and leading others with compassion, integrity, and loyalty and always remember ‘be strong enough to be gentle,’” the family statement continued.' variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 22/08/2026

It has to be a personal choice on a question like this, and while there's a lot to choose from(when you had to borrow cassette tapes from the local library in the 80s, Greatest Hits were really good picks) I'm going with one I owned then and now. The Shadows.

Cassette tape of the Shadows greatest hits.

Cassette tape inlay card of the Shadows greatest hits.

Man of mystery, FBI, midnight, wonderful land!, frightened city, kontiki, peace, pipe, dance on, Apache, The stranger, guitar tango, 362436, the savage, stars fell on Stockton, the boys.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 20/08/2026

Today will mostly be giggling at the reminder that the lost legends of classic Star Trek being mythologised includes 'Spock's Brain'

A still from Star Trek: Spock's brain. Kirk is looking at what appears to be a fourth-wall breaking 'hippie' as a Spock wtih no brain is remote controlled by McCoy.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Jimmy Fallon might not be in my top tier of late-night hosts, but he was a breath of fresh air in corporate presentations at 2025's Made By Google. There was a lesson there that I'm not sure was learned by the industry.

Jimmy Fallon with some phones. He's no Johnny Carson, but he's a vast improvement at presenting phones ot the public than your average Megacorp Product Development Office.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11/07/2026

Can't get these Bluetooth headphones' fast-forward or rewind controls to work. Any suggestions? #WAR #Anker #Soundcore #TheShadows #walkman

On the left is the 'We Are Rewind' cassette player. It has a Bluetooth audio connection with the pair of Liberty 5 Pro Max true wireless earbuds in the centre. On the right is the box for The Shadows' album 'String of Hits'.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 07/07/2026

He walked so the Count could run (in Clacton).

TV's Dusty Bin (3-2-1) with Union Jacks and a royal crown.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 02/07/2026

Me with my BlueSky mutuals.

A scene from the film Wargames with rather a lot of old computers and screens in a military bunker.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 29/06/2026

John Oliver on General Hospital? "Bring on the scenery, daddy needs to eat." latenighter.com/news/john-ol...

Still from "this week on general hospital" 296/ featuring John Oliver, looking like a Cambridge Uni version of Jason Statham, flanked by SWAT troopers and a helicopter.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Now, over to Scotland's reality correspondent, Russell Crowe.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 16/06/2026

Today's soundtrack on the mini magnetophone is Bruce and Hank doing some cover songs.

The Klim K7 cassette player and The Shadows String of Hits album on tape

Track listing for The Shadows' String of Hits...
RIDERS IN THE SKY
PARISIENNE WALKWAYS
CLASSICAL GAS
THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT

HEART OF GLASS
DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA
SONG FOR DUKE
BRIGHT EYES
RODRIGO'S GUITAR CONCERTO DE ARANJEUZ
BAKER STREET

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 15/06/2026

Maybe it thinks you are under 16 and you are using the review/comment section as a social network? Try playing some government-approved music instead of that filthy rock and roll you smuggled in on an x-ray photo.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11/06/2026

How about running Linkding? Individual users get a private space to save links, their own descriptions, and tags, but can make them public for all to see on the landing page? linkding.link A quick snap of my personal hosted version.

A screenshot of links in Linkding all tagged podcasting

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Helps if I send the picture !

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 10/06/2026

It's already happening, and it's called Ludwig. At the end of Season 2, David Mitchell heads to the countryside, hikes into a quarry, where a saggy old blue box, baggy and a bit loose at the seams, is waiting for him.

A quarry! A box! It's Doctor Who's Destiny of the Daleks on location!

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 04/06/2026

Personal time is a bit hazy, so I think it's a mix of Mosaic and BillT's "read every 'web page' online at lunch" and spending an inordinate time on Usenet through a VT100 terminal with .tin.

A screenshot of the TIN threaded newsgroup reader

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 22/05/2026

Who had ' "The Late Show" would do a weak pastiche of the Byker Grove finale' for the last episode? www.denofgeek.com/tv/byker-gro...

Two characters walk into a glowing white light in the fourth-wall braking final episode of Byker Grove.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 08/05/2026

"For the cat..." Really?

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 24/04/2026

(taps internet)... It's hour 16, where's my weekly episode - it's time for The Pitt: Nightcrawlers, surely?

A fanmade poster for The Pitt, captioned "the nightcrawlers" for the overnight shift. Via https://www.threads.com/@danielleprice007/post/DXNyCeBkdI-/pitt-finale-spoiler-i-live-for-this-theyre-all-so-weird-and-hot-and-cool

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Sunday will be the second week of matchups in Baseball Scotland, with five games across the country (we'll have cameras at two of them). Just before week one ends, we have the three recorded games from last Sunday up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@baseballsco...

Three youtube thumbnails of Baseball Scotland games; Knights at Eclipse, Cannons at Glasgow, and Breakers at Angels.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 18/04/2026

"The Matt Berry Trio", "jazz... drawing influence from the electronic experiments of Miles Davis and the melancholy of Satie." Yeah, I think this is an immediate order. mattberry.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...

Album cover for The Matt Berry Trio's "Everything's Peachy" jazz session album.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 13/04/2026

Lindsay Buckingham's very light bridge in The Chain. The tension, the expectation, knowing that John McVie is about to drop *that* bass line . And then it drops.

Definitly not Bucjingham and McVie - it's Moss and Clark enjoying the beat at an F1 race.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 23/03/2026

The postie has delivered this week's "one old, one new" music cassettes. There's something delightfully teenage about a crackly, stretched, well-worn copy of Bat Out Of Hell. Meanwhile, Jazz Sabbath is just a pitch-perfect origin story for the music; Paranoid is built to be a nine-minute noodle.

Two audio cassette boxes, on the left, with the cassette on show, is "Jazz Sabbath Live" an on the right, still boxed, is Bat Out Of Hell.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11/03/2026

Also... TeamUSA not as good as Scotland at calculating goal difference (run differentials) at a major tournament. Lolz.

“I misspoke… Completely misread the calculations.”

Manager Mark DeRosa confirms he did not know Team USA could still be eliminated during pool play

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 03/03/2026

Whatever the feeling of "am emotional thread of a mixtape suddenly clicks into place"? Nailed it with -Happier Than Ever, Kelly Clarkson. -Hurt, Johnny Cash. -La Notte, Pierfrancesco Favino Yes, I'm throwing in a spoken-word performance from Sanremo, isn't the point of a mixtape to be surprising?

Sanremo 2018 - Pierfrancesco Favino performing the monologue from "La notte..."

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 23/02/2026

Well, thisis going to be a fun week. Daytime is prep and review writing ahead of Samsung launch on Wednesday Mobile World Congress on Sunday; evenings will be the Sanremo music festival with nightly radio broadcasts to help produce, and supporting the @escinsight.bsky.social team at Sanremo.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Every time you hear a helicopter in the sky, Another part of Dr Romano dies. #thepitt

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 15/02/2026

The long, slow, burn that would be an angst ridden few years after the war before they settled down.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 14/02/2026

Okay, so #Cairn is a fekkin' awesome game (summary: just climb the damn mountain, one hold at a time) but I have never felt so much anxiety, vertigo, panic, and release while gaming in a very long time. For those who've played, I've just managed the crystal climb and ... oooft that was a *moment*

The Crystal Caves, a climb in the game Cairn, a cavernou upsie down bowl of a cave you have to climb up and over to reach the gap in the centre that leads to a chamber of bonus objects.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 13/02/2026

One of the I'm getting all sorts of emotions and memories coming back up as I work through some old cassettes. The specific pops, breaks, jumps and 'Absolute Beginners can *only* be followed by Living Doll because Kid Jensen' are all really powerful. Don't say music can't move you.

DJ David 'Kid' Jensen points to the camera, with a turntable in the background. It's probably the 70s, given his shirt.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 08/02/2026

Who’s the super bowl halftime performer? *wrong answers only*

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 07/02/2026

The Muppet Show could be back. The Pitt is winning everything... I have a suggestion.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 05/02/2026

"It's The Muppet Show!" Yes. Yes it is. You had me cheering like an eight-year-old from this frame onwards. (Also... "Mary Steenburgen!")

Scooter calls for the next guest star in the first episode of series 6 of The Muppet Show.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 02/02/2026

Tonight's magnetic music goes old school, and comes from The Corries l.

A Walkman, a cassette, and a cassette box. It is The Corries album "Stovies"

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