Raspberry Pi charts
So these are the charts the Munin plugin generates. Clock frequencies. Voltages. Temperature. I changed how the voltages were collected which is why that graph doesn’t have much data on it yet, and...
View ArticleLord of the Rings Online – Riders of Rohan – Pictures
Random pictures from Riders of Rohan. Related posts: Riders of Rohan – War Steeds Some random bullet points, mostly for friends of mine so... Lord of the Rings Online – Mirkwood changes Looks like...
View ArticleMy mam – the strongest woman I ever knew.
My mam died at around 7:30am on the 12th December 2012. She passed away peacefully after a massive stroke the night before, all exacerbated by weak lungs and heart. The day she had the stroke, the...
View ArticleIt’s January. Actually, it’s January 2013.
This is my semi-regular where the hell have I been post. I’ve been writing these as long as I’ve been blogging. I don’t think I write them for you, dear reader, but for me, so that I can remember...
View ArticleReports from the sofa
I’ve been unwell on and off since around December. Repeated colds which would come and go, and much more frustratingly, a cough which would come and go, and which at one stage was very bad indeed....
View ArticleApril Ahoy
It’s April already, and I’d like to think after the end of last year, things are finally getting back to normal. Yesterday, myself and Grete went out and bought a sofa (actually, a pair, a 3 seater...
View ArticleThe Politics of the Self vs. the Politics of the Community
I am neither well read1 nor politically active. My knowledge of history is woeful, my awareness of world events is limited, and frankly, I’m often quite dim. So you’ll have to excuse my terminology,...
View ArticleIt’s time …
I’m 42. I think, that I could have learned to drive when I was 17 in the UK, maybe 16 (it would have been 1987 or 1988). Tomorrow is when I’m actually going to start learning to drive. I have my...
View ArticleFirst lesson update
So I had planned to come home and write up my first driving lesson. But quite frankly, to quote Egon, I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Also I’m very tired. However, in summary,...
View ArticleRunning your own Dynamic DNS Service (on Debian)
I used to have a static IP address on my home ADSL connection, but then I moved to BT Infinity, and they don’t provide that ability. For whatever reason, my Infinity connection resets a few times a...
View ArticleCommand line updates
I’ve been looking for a client to create WordPress posts from the command line. There’s a few, but nothing self contained or easy to install. A python script that doesn’t seem to work on Debian, or a...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 1
At the time of writing this, I’m forty-two years old. As you know, forty-two is the answer to life, the universe and everything, so what better time to start to learn to drive? I covered some reasons...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 2
This was not me … One thing I didn’t talk about much in the first post in this series (here), was the sick feeling in my stomach from the moment I got out of bed on Wednesday the 8th May until the...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 3
Last time I spoke to my driving instructor, I said I was going to spend some time in Tesco car park just starting and stopping our car, to get used to the clutch and the whole routine of pulling away...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 4
Today was lesson 3 in ‘learning to drive in your forties’. I will warn you now, this post contains emotional scenes, but no flash photography. Also there is swearing. If you prefer to think of me as...
View ArticleIn between …
I am writing a blog post on my MCM Comic Con experience, but it’s taking longer than I expected, and now I’ve got an itch to write the next driving lesson post, so that’s going to turn up first. For...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 5
Lesson 4 (in learning to drive at the age of 42). This is how I felt for 2 hours … It rained most of today, and I had every expectation of being out in the car in terrible weather. Along with general...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 6
It’s been nine hours since we started this journey. Nine hours behind the wheel. Nine hours of traffic jams and stalls. Nine hours of not knowing where the biting point is. Nine hours of sweaty...
View ArticleOn “Hague: Law-abiding Britons have nothing to fear from GCHQ”
This is the quote, “Law-abiding” citizens have “nothing to fear” from the British intelligence services, the foreign secretary says. source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22832263 I was going to tweet a...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 7
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. Attributed to the “Old Gaffer” by Samwise Gamgee” I love Tolkien. He’s wordy, and turgid in places, and he’s confused and a little...
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