Spode's Abode

I'm Andrew Spode, and this is my Abode! I'll be making videos about Virtual Reality, Electronics, Vintage Computing and Restoration, and frankly anything else that interests me.

In the late 90s/00s, I ran spodesabode.com - a fairly popular hardware review site that led to an enjoyable journalism career writing for the likes of Custom PC, Trusted Reviews, The Inquirer and many more. Fast forward 20 years and I'm a software developer who has taken full advantage of Google's right to be forgotten.

Ironically then, here I am doing it all again. This time however, I don't have sub-editors and I don't have a studio and professional editors to make me look good. Thankfully, nor do I have the necessity to make my living from it. It's just plain "raw Spode" learning his ropes in Vegas 18, with pieces of paper stapled around some LED lighting. It'll be a little rough around the edges, but then so was Spode's Abode when I was a 15 year old overclocking stuff in my tiny bedroom.