Internet – Iain Douglas Stewart

Self-isolation, week four

By Iain April 14, 2020Internet, Music, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

It reminds me of when I was unemployed, having all this free time. But it's weird - instead of bumming around playing videogames all day and moderating meaningless internet forums, this time I am spending my time improving my situation. I asked Twitter when the lockdown first started if this crisis brought anyone's mortality into sharp focus. It did mine.…

Waves is gone

By Iain September 4, 2018Internet, Site RelatedNo Comments

My old blog, Waves, which used to be at the old domain of randomfury.co.uk, is no more. All the posts have been folded into this blog. It was a lovely place, if a bit quiet. I feel like I've written this a lot recently, but it was always more for me to cathartically write than for people to read. I'd…

About the old me

By Iain September 4, 2018Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hey. My old blog, Waves, is gone. Here are the old “About Me” pages. They are no longer relevant to me, my mission or my desires.

That time I thought I was an app developer

By Iain August 21, 2018Internet, ReflectionsNo Comments

I'm getting into 2011 now, and this was the time when I got a Windows Phone and decided I could make apps - even though I had never shown any aptitude for real coding in my life. Sure, I could tweak things here and there on a website, or just about fudge my way through and make something look semi-presentable…

We all thrive on stories

By Iain August 12, 2018Books, Films/TV, Internet, The MissionNo Comments

We all thrive on stories.We grow up on them, we tell ourselves them, we communicate with them, we shape our lives with them. Stories make the world go around, and stories are nothing without characters. So, a question:Who are the top 5 characters that shaped who you are now?— Jordan Casstles (@MrCasstles) August 11, 2018 Now, how could I resist…

Looking back at 2005

By Iain December 3, 2017Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm just going back through all my old posts on the old blog as I work to transfer them to this new domain (iaindstewart.net), and I can finally see why I was depressed all those years ago. It's as clear as day now I have some insight into what depression is and how it affects you. I was essentially staying…

Fresh start

By Iain December 3, 2017Creativity, Internet, ReflectionsNo Comments

I think it is time for a fresh start. Time to draw a line under everything that has come before. You see, I have been pre-occupied with transferring everything from the old community website to this one before I can do anything else, but to be honest, I don't think anyone would notice if I never did. It was fifty…

Two and a half months later…

By Iain April 14, 2015Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Oh my, has it really been that long since my last post? That really is very bad of me, especially considering I could've knocked up a few smaller update posts on my phone during a lunchbreak at work or something. I've been in some pretty dark places between then and now, and I never feel like writing when I'm having…

That didn’t feel like a war

By Iain January 30, 2015Books, InternetNo Comments

So, I recently decided to start reading comics again, maybe get one of the omnibus-style publications every month so as to not go too crazy - and for whatever reason, I started with the Civil War trade-paperback. I got home and read it from cover to cover in one sitting and to be quite honest I was quite disappointed. I…