Yeah i'm the world's worst listener and I absolutely hate it so I'm always trying to find ways to fix it. I can watch entire season runs without knowing what happened. I've been known to go to the cinema and leave without having paid attention to a single thing. I've listened to literally hundreds of podcasts but don't bother any more because there's just no point. Five minutes at best and my mind goes elsewhere.

Ironically if there's something else I'm trying to focus on and there is a TV or something happening in my peripheral I often can't tune it out.. lol

OK I'm sold - I hear a lot of good things about OneNote but I struggled to understand the appeal on first glance. If it is good enough that you can find notes that far back then that could work well for me.

Btw Planner is great if you haven't used it. It's designed as a collaborative tool but I use it mostly as a way of keeping track of where I am with various tasks. I put it in my startup folder so it comes up as soon as I log on. I'll make checklists and basically talk to myself via card comments. Comments are timestamped and are forwarded to outlook so it's a better way of logging things than my usual method of digging through old Outlook messages. It has a couple of shortfalls but its really keeping me sane at the moment

I actually love vi to this day. As long as you understand the basic concepts (how to navigate, append/insert, switch between modes, save and exit) it's great. I'm a touch-typer so I could whiz around vi like nobody's business.

HATED Emacs though

WACUP can do milkdrop

I had similar problems with BASIC type-ins and would not eat, drink or sleep until I had figured out the problem. Trying to do the same with assembly would have killed me

I remember installing either Red Hat or Mandriva linux years ago and being in absolute disbelief that it was free. I went straight back to Windows when I realised i couldn't play my games anymore and it crashed all the time but it was still phenomenal.

I never had a voodoo and my old AMD CPU + ATI card could never manage to run glide wrappers properly I don't think. Super jealous of voodoo owners. I remember drooling over the old magazine ads they used to publish

I remember we had a copy of the game Trolls, but didn't know the password to run it. Never deterred me from spending hours typing random words in trying to guess it.

We had Lemmings and Prince of Persia too actually. I sank a ton of time into those

The way I look at it is that I'm more happy that we've progressed since than I'm upset about what people were laughing at back then. Regardless of who was on the receiving end the comedy was good and I will enjoy it without guilt. That being said if somebody made those jokes today it would be a different story

Definitely need to watch a bit of Macgyver! I want to check out Miami Vice again sometime but my partner hated it. I do love the style and the music though.

I'm looking forward to MST3K for sure. Who's The Boss got lost in the shuffle somehow. Looking back there was a lot of debuts in 1984 and I couldn't watch everything. Definitely one I need to revisit though

I did watch a few movies this years too but haven't been in the mood a lot of the time. I'd already seen a lot of the 'good' movies from 88 so went for the lighter side a lot of the time.

Crocodile Dundee 2 Short Circuit 2 18 Again! Willow Funny Farm Hot To Trot Vibes

Of those Funny Farm was the one I enjoyed most. Short Circuit 2 is good Sunday afternoon fun if you can get past the horrific indian stereotype. Hot To Trot is straight up weird and Vibes was a struggle to watch. The others were fine.

I never watched Akira. I am a bit of a hard sell on anime sometimes but I always hear good things about it. I'll put it on the list

It's worth watching again. I might be biased towards old sitcoms but I think it holds up better compared to other 80s shows. Apparently audiences didn't enjoy the show because they found the character unlikeable... Which was kinda the whole point, and I thought they played it well. I think if it came out 10 or 15 years later it would have done much better

Most people recommend Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course. There's 3 levels and they'll keep you occupied for a long while. I've always found them quite useful. Alfred's publish songbooks for each level as well.