Went to Sydney for work this week. It's a gorgeous city. Melbourne is still better though.

I rolled some putts today at Drummond Golf. I really liked the Wilson Infinite ZT putter 606 model. I liked the weight and the feel of the club (35 inch shaft length). It's also at my price point (~$300). Will try and save up for one to get it soon.

I need a new putter. It's the last part of my golf gear that's still kind of lacking.

I currently have an old Wilson Pro Staff PT which I'll sell for probably only ~$50.

I then want to upgrade to a TaylorMade Spider Tour Putter which usually retail for around $450. Will need to save up my personal money to get it.

Man that England loss was deflating. The way they played after the goal was really poor.

1. Build a pile of paper knots in the middle of the pit
2. Assemble kindling kind of like a jenga tower around the knots
3. Put a good fire lighter into the middle of the tower and paper
4. Light the fire lighter, it should catch onto the paper and then on the jenga tower
5. Once you've got a good fire going put in a bigger log, this should create coals which you can use to continuously burn new big pieces of wood

Last night I found out the hard way that Plex can be a bit dodgy on Tizen based TVs.

The server was streaming all my movies files correctly but the Tizen client was failing and having weird errors. I was getting this error about enabling verbose logging

07/13/2026 20:27:33:836 [harriso7742:b16b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] ERROR [AVPlay (IDLE)] onAVPlayError: PLAYER_ERROR_GENEREIC
07/13/202620:27:33:847 20:27:33:847[harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] INFO [PlaybackSessionController] playback state changed to: stopped
07/13/202620:27:33:899 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] WARN Failed to send transcode action stop to source:
server://22932413d4166c699b3abe0069f65d4e37899862/com.plexapp.plugins.library/library/metadata/3
07/13/2026 20:27:33:901 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] ERROR Playback error occurred. Reason: FailedToSetupOrCreatePlayer, Failed to create or setup player! Message: An unexpected playback problem occurred.
07/13/2026 20:27:33:911 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] WARN [PlaybackSessionController] could not retry, reporting error

which was very frustrating and no real solution seemed possible even with AIs help.

Then the stream just started randomly working after trying different settings for like 45 minutes. Not really sure what I changed but it worked so I guess that's good?

I might also install Emby server and the client app on my TV as a backup just in case for these situations. I assume the library should just work the same. I wanted to install Jellyfin but sadly their Tizen client isn't available in the app store.

I also realised that on macOS the native Plex client is trash; you're actually better off using the web app at app.plex.tv.

I wanted to store all of my golf scores in a local database but it's just not really that feasible or that useful. From now on just use the Golf Australia app which keeps track of my handicap as well as my scores.

For some reason all the hole by hole scores are not available from pre 2026 though? I still have all my final Stableford scores at least.

I've been very volatile with golf lately. On Sunday I had one of the craziest rounds ever; a nightmare start and then played extremely well from hole 5 onwards (minus hole 9 and 18) to still record an okay final Stableford score (30). My putting really saved the day. I hit some nice lag putts and dropped a couple of bombs for par.

I was actually on track for my lowest ever back 9 score with all pars from 10-15, bogey on 16, par 17 (so +1 though 8) but then a disappointing pickup on 18.

Some notes:

• I need to try and hit more fairways, I've been quite streaky off the tee
• I should try and go down to the range at least once a week, focus on getting tee shots in the fairway and hitting solid irons
• When I'm getting a bit messy off the tee it's usually a right to left hook, I think if I weaken my grip a little bit this could help, I'm still getting into good spots when I hit good tee shots with my 4 hybrid even off the blue tees so I don't think club choice is necessarily the problem
• To help with the grip issue I'm getting this, I should do regular practice with it
• I will eventually purchase a new 5 wood for my bag, I'm also currently getting my pitching wedge fixed as it broke on a round a few weeks ago (I accidentally swung the club into a tree and it snapped) so I need to think about where my money is going

This is the first post I'm writing from my new work MacBook Pro.

These are the specifications.

Name: M5 Max chip
Storage: 2TB
RAM: 64GB
CPU: 18 core
GPU: 40 core

I'm pretty happy to have a new piece of tech. It is also incredibly expensive right now. The number is kind of scary (A$7,899.00).

I also got the space black (but more of a dark grey) colour option. It's pretty nice.

Some more pups photos from this week.

I made a small change to my ub script that uploads posts to my blog that will now allow for .txt files. Sometimes when I'm writing I find it easiest to just open a new TextEdit window and quickly type out a post. I feel like for me it's the best way to write more.

The last 2 World Cup based podcasts have been excellent. I kind of love listening to someone who isn't the biggest football fan (like me) examine these World Cup games. I'm pumped for the quarter finals. Hoping England can get through.

This is the end of an era. The Mac Pro has been such a weird product for a few years now. Good to see that the slate has been wiped clean.

They've had a fun week together.

This is genuine hype. The characters and the competitiveness; such entertaining content.

This was one of the best games of football I've ever seen. What an incredible win for England. Still be very tricky to go all the way but you never know.

Yep this sounds good. Hopefully it's in the September direct.

This will likely be my most disappointing game of all time. They screwed it up so bad.

This has been another excellent podcast listen from Sports Bizarre. The amount of sheer corruption and crime FIFA engaged in over the last 80 years is a joke.

She's an old girl now.