Latest Activity on PAYNEful
A Selection of Blogs Are Back
Date: 03/11/2026
A number of blogs are back from the nether realm. I've picked these because I'm quite pleased with them, they're not a bad read, or they were short and sweet and didn't take a lot of effort to port over from the WordPress database they are currently stuck in. Consider it a bag of mixed sweets.
- That's Just Not PC (2009)
- The Great Deviant Slaughter of '09 (2009)
- Spammers Say the Most Poetic Things (2013)
- No Dogs Please, We're Cat People (2013)
- Derren Brown is a Malevolent Supervillain (2014)
- I Did the ALS / MND Ice Bucket Challenge (in Style) (2014)
- Spammers Say the Creepiest Things (2014)
- So You've Emailed the Wrong Email Address (2017)
- The Hungry Games (2017)
- The Saga of People Keep Using My Smegging Email Address to Sign up to Stuff (2018)
They have all been reformatted and cleaned up, with links fixed where required. This includes making the footnotes inline, because having the screen jump to the bottom of the page to read them was a massive pain in the backside on PAYNEful v2; besides, I'm not Terry Pratchett or Shamus Young (RIP to both inspirations).
It's quite cathartic to extract the images for each post from a quagmire of excessive WordPress-generated images, because to cater for all platforms while sharing posts it generates four or five copies of each image in different sizes and scales.
I do intend to bring back some of the reviews and recaps, but I'm thinking of moving them to a dedicated section of the website so they aren't just lumped in-between blog posts like they were before.
There's a contingent of blog posts I may keep relegated to the Phantom Zone, because I don't think hating on tech fanboys or me showing off whatever new toy or LEGO I'd just happened to buy that week is particularly interesting or worth preserving on this webspace. 🤷
More to come!
Discworld Noir
Date: 26/10/2026
The Discworld Noir pages are back:
I prioritised these pages above others as I know my website has always had traffic to the "how to play this bloody old game" pages. I've gone through and fixed broken links and amended information as appropriate; some links were long dead and not even in the Wayback Machine, sadly. There's also an amendment that came in (via GitHub of all places) that's been sat in my inbox since February(!).
I'm still annoyed that the annnotations were removed off of my DWN playthrough videos, maybe one day I'll get around to re-doing them. 🤷
More to come, I've got no concrete plans going forward for what blog posts or pages I'll be bringing back next.
The French Translator and Labb Rat Are Back
Date: 25/10/2026
Progress! There's now a news feed here on the home page. 🎉
The silly French accent translator is back and now displays nicer on mobile devices, too.
I'm not unaware of the irony that I'm re-adding and remastering this facility while Paris and other parts of France are rioting right now; I don't dispute that I'm a horrible Englishman.
Labb Rat is also back, and has also received some mobile optimisation goodness.
The Blogsplosion is back (albeit sans content), and the Projects page now exists, too.
PAYNEful V3
Date: 24/10/2026
The website has been long overdue an overhaul, and here's the reasons why.
PAYNEful was last overhauled in 2012, making this v3 of the website. Welcome to the "No Frills" era (I'm old enough to makes references to long-dead supermarket own-brand ranges, yay!).