A couple of months ago I decided to purchase a NEC MultiSync PA322UHD-2 monitor from B&H in the US. The monitor ticked all the right boxes. But when the unit arrived I was greeted with a defect in the panel. There was a dark spot appearing in front of the RGB sub pixels that was quite annoying. The spot was definitely behind the glass layer, but it was not a pixel defect as the area moved relative with your viewpoint.

I reached out to NEC technical support and after sending through a photo of the issue and my invoice, they RMA-ed the unit. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. But the journey was far from over.

The replacement unit was actually worse. It too had the same defect, but in a different location on the panel. It also had additional spots. So back it went and another unit was sent. Same thing - if you were keeping count, this is now unit number 3.

In a first for me, a fashion designer named Bożena Karska asked me a while ago permission to use one of my peacock feather photos as inspiration for a dress she is designing. I said yes to her request, and couple of months later she emailed me with the result - I am impressed (though that model can do with some love)!

Update Clearly not just me...

This is just retarded:

If I were a French student and I were 10 years old, I think it would be more important for me to learn coding than English. I'm not telling people not to learn English in some form — but I think you understand what I am saying is that this is a language that you can [use to] express yourself to 7 billion people in the world, - Cook tells Konbini.

It is equivalent in me standing up and advocating to the leaders of this world that engineering should be a mandatory subject in school as engineers speak to 7 billion people in the world, and everyone should be engineers.

As I alluded to before, I have been working on solving a problem I experienced with the custom workstation I have built last year. That problem is heat. I solved it as per the photo below.

I did not realize it initially, but the heat generated by the two 1080 Ti cards coupled with the Phanteks Evolv case caused the two cards to thermal throttle pretty much for anything I do that uses GPU power. The GPU temperatures would quickly run up to 84˚C, and the cards would start dropping their clock speed to stay within the thermal limits. This basically nerfed the 1080 Ti cards' performance half way back to the 1080 I originally had. Kind of pointless to spend $2000 on an upgrade only to lose that advantage due to excess heat.