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What’s going on, Internet? September’s been a month of noise, nostalgia, and ferry rides. It kicked off with Minuit at Double Whammy, their reunion tour finale and easily one of the best (or only?) nights out I’ve had in ages. Great company, great tunes, and a dance floor that felt straight out of 2005, just with a crowd twenty years older, lol. The next morning I went full fangirl and stacked my Bandcamp cart with Minuit’s entire back catalogue, along with some Fur Patrol for balance.

Then it was time for the London Hardhouse Reunion 2025. My friends came up for the weekend and we had an amazing time, all bass and hoovers, with a bunch of my favourite DJs that I would see across a single year, all playing the same gig, the same night. The kind of night that leaves your ears ringing (yes I wore my ear plugs) and the tunes stuck in your head for days.

We rounded the month off a little slower with a family weekend on Waiheke, swapping the inside of clubs for beaches, markets, and fish and chips.

Between the gigs and the music, I somehow found time to catch up on TV. One new show that crossed my radar was The Runarounds; a perfect binge watch. Fun, short, and chaotic in all the right ways. I wonder if I should share more on the shows I watch and find enjoyable?

I also went digging into lost media for Aotearoa’s lost emo banger, a little dive into what happens when labels dropped the ball into the transition to digital and how local libraries can quietly save the music.

Plenty of good tunes, good people, and good times this month 🎶

Reading

Read four books this month, all enjoyable and worth reading:

Music

New records added to the collection:

Gaming

We’ve wrapped up raiding for the season, and expansion. We spent the last couple weeks dipping into the first couple mythic bosses in Mana Forge Omega and we easily got two of them down. The Legion Remix is going live this week. I will play enough to get the mounts and armours sets I need and then give it a break. Rumours on the street are that we’ll be seeing the next expansion, Midnight as early as February.

With Warcraft out of the way, I’m looking forward to getting back into Cyberpunk and finishing up some more story lines.

Bookmarks

After last months ball dropping I’m back with more exciting links from across the web. There’ll definitely be something of interest in here for you.

Check back next month, and if you want more in the meantime, dive into the archive.

Website

On the site side of things, September was a good month for tidying and tinkering. I started by revamping the Bookmarks page, it’s now fully tagged and easier to browse, and I split the Blogroll off from the Links page so each has its own proper home. There’s been a bit of chatter in my small web circles recently, and I have post drafted I want to share soon.

I built out a new Blog Stats page using Robb’s PostGraph to visualise my posting frequency.

Then, to round things off, I gave my RSS and Atom feeds a glow-up. They’re now styled with an XSL transformation and integrated into the fLaMEd fury design system. The Feeds page itself got an update to clearly show all the feeds avaialbe. All this work inspired by Robb’s setup, which I pretty much jacked. Thanks Robb.

Happening around the web

Weird Web October is happening for the second year. I won’t be taking part (I know if I commited, I’d quickly fail). If you are more inclined and creative than I am and decided to take part, come hang out in the Weird Web October thread over on the forums.

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Sweeet, catch you, laterz 👋

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