Every month in AI feels like a year. March 2026 has been no exception — there’s been genuine progress, some overhyped noise, and a few shifts that I think actually matter for everyday people and businesses. Let me cut through the press releases and give you my honest read on where things stand. The Big Picture: From Hype to Monetisation The defining story of AI in early 2026 is the shift from...
Retro gaming has never been more popular. And paradoxically, it has also never been more difficult, expensive, or frustrating to get into. If you’ve tried to build a genuine retro collection recently, you’ll know exactly what I mean. Prices are up, quality is down, and a whole set of new technical problems have emerged that simply didn’t exist when these consoles were new. Let me break down the...
If you’ve still got an original Nintendo 64 sitting on your shelf — or you’ve recently tracked one down and started building a retro setup — there’s a piece of hardware that just dropped that you genuinely need to know about. On March 19, 2026, 8BitDo officially launched its N64 Retro Receivers — a small adapter that plugs into your original N64 controller port and lets you use modern wireless...
OpenClaw is one of the most exciting AI tools I’ve come across — but getting started can feel a little daunting if you’ve never run something like this before. This guide walks you through the entire setup process from scratch, step by step, no prior experience needed. By the end, you’ll have OpenClaw running on your machine with an AI assistant you can message from your phone or desktop — that...
If you’ve been following my work lately, you might have noticed I’ve been doing some pretty interesting things with AI assistants — automating tasks, managing client work, getting things done faster than ever before. A big part of that is a tool called OpenClaw. In this post I want to break down what it actually is, how it works, and why I think it’s genuinely useful. What is OpenClaw? OpenClaw...
Recently, I gave my Auntie something unusual for a woman in her early 70s: Perplexity AI. She was born in Sri Lanka, now living in Australia, and she’s seen more than her fair share of technological shifts. From rotary phones to smartphones, handwritten letters to WhatsApp, she’s lived through it all. And yet, there she was – curious, open-minded, and willing to give artificial intelligence...
I get asked this question a lot: “Chris, is it too late to buy Bitcoin?” It’s usually said with a mix of FOMO and regret — as if everyone else got in back in 2010 when it was worth pocket change, and now the train has left the station. But here’s the thing: with Bitcoin (and crypto more broadly), the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. A Decade of “Too Late” If you look at Bitcoin’s history, people...
I’ve been playing with a lot of AI tools lately, and one question keeps bugging me: Can AI ever create marketing that truly connects with people—emotionally—or is it destined to sound like a chatbot reading from a script? Because let’s face it: marketing isn’t just words on a page. It’s not just a product shot and a slogan. The stuff that sticks in our heads, the campaigns we talk about years...
I sometimes catch myself staring at my old Commodore gear and thinking: how long will these machines really last? Forty-year-old chips aren’t exactly known for their reliability. Plastic goes brittle, SIDs burn out, drives die. And yet, thanks to something called FPGA, we’ve got a shot at not just preserving, but recreating these machines in living, blinking hardware. So the big question: can an...
I still remember the exact sound—the dry hiss of breath into plastic, followed by the satisfying click as the cartridge slid into place. If you grew up with a NES, a Master System, or even the old Famicom, you probably just smiled reading that. Because for many of us, blowing into game cartridges wasn’t just a troubleshooting method—it was a ritual. No one taught us to do it. It wasn’t in the...
