It's time for episode 433, the Clockwise Podcasts from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, January 12, 2022.

Clockwise, Four People, For your tech podcast in 30 minutes or it's cold.

My name is Dan Mooran and I am joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, my dungeon buddy.

It's Micah, How are you doing today?

Oh, I'm chilly. Chili-Billy. But doing okay otherwise. I got odd fast. Okay.

I mean, is that not my brand? It is. It's a clockwise guarantee. We will be weird in less

than 30 seconds from starting the show.

But we'll be weird with two fantastic guests. To my left this week, it is the developer of fabulous apps such as P. Calc and the roller of fabulous dice such as Dice by Peacalc. It's James Thompson. Welcome back, James.

Oh, thank you. Somebody seems to be wielding a hammer inside our building, and they are definitely not worthy. So I apologize in advance.

To my left is the co-host of Rocket right here on Relay FM, as well as a senior video producer at Polygon. It is delightful weirdo, Simone de Rochefort. Hello, Simone. I was going to say,

if you guys are being weird, you're really stepping on my brand. I think I was doing it before any of you.

But thank you for the lovely intro. Well, we can all be weird together. And we can start with one topic

that's actually probably not that weird. Sorry, I really

promised more than I could deliver there. I want to know what was the last piece of tech you bought

to improve your work from home experience. And did you actually find it helpful, James?

Well, I've been working from this home for over 22 years now. So my work nest is already pretty

well feathered. But I think the last thing I bought was a pair of netgear orby mesh Wi-Fi

6 routers to improve the signal throughout the house. And while they succeeded on that one single front, I hate them with a fiery passion.

And daily resent the many hundreds of pounds that I spent on them.

For a start, they failed at the first hurdle and couldn't create a mesh network from one side of my apparently lead-lined apartment to the other.

And so I had to keep the existing Ethernet lead, which runs under the carpet in the

hallway.

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