At the end of 2024, my wife and I had the honor of being invited to the Chest and Heart’s 50th anniversary celebration at Government House. While reflecting on this milestone, I looked back through my email history and realized that my involvement began in 2013 - 11 years ago!

Back then, my friend Kieran and I created the original website for Chest and Heart. Over the years, I’ve contributed to various updates and improvements, including a redesign to make the website responsive as mobile usage became more of a thing. More recently, the website was replaced with a new platform, but my connection with Chest and Heart continues. Through Cortex, we developed and now maintain their Portal.

My wife was also invited to the celebration, as she now works for Chest and Heart herself! Additionally, we both had the opportunity to feature in Chest and Heart’s new promotional video. Naturally, I’ll be adding “modeling” to my CV!

I’ve recently had to purchase a support brace for my home PC, and I felt the need to share the absurdity of this. The GPU is so heavy that it is sagging out of the socket.

First, let me clarify that my GPU is not high-end; it is considered medium-end. So, this isn’t even the cutting edge of GPU technology, the higher-end models are even bigger and heavier.

A team of engineers at Nvidia and AMD, working at the pinnacle of their fields, have signed off on a design that bends under its own weight. The socket that a GPU fits into is a standard and hasn’t changed in many years; it’s not a new innovation. Engineers! It’s absolute madness.

My wife, Joelle, has been creating beautiful jewellery over at Serenity Sea Glass for nearly a year now. Her pieces are already featured in three local shops. Be sure to check it out!

I recently appeared on the main BBC Website after having a phone call interview about four-day weeks. It was a surprise to us (at Cortex) that it was the proper BBC and not just BBC Guernsey.

Unfortunately, the quote was somewhat negative. I was actually more positive about it.

Anyway, it was fun seeing my face in the news!

I enjoy playing video games and I’ve been finding it frustrating to find decent ones with play with my kids. As an example you’d think the £29.99 Nintendo Switch Peppa Pig game would be fairly good. It is not. There is very little gameplay, the controls are unclear (don’t visually match the controller) and the loading times are insane (10 seconds+ per scene) for a 2D game with little happening, my youngest has time to ask me why its not playing at least 10 times before it actually does anything. The cheap Peppa Pig Chicken game is much better on tablets…

So I have decided to begin maintaining a list of games that my kids have enjoyed playing or watching me play. I’ll update this list over time. The list is here.

Unfortunately, I have not really found anything for five and under. There are various games based off of the things they’d typically watch (Paw Patrol) but they are fairly low effort and expensive. The only one to stick so far is Mario Kart with all the assists turned on.