Month: January 2021

  • Colour-cycling a Christmas Star

    Colour-cycling a Christmas Star

    A few years ago, at a Christmas market in Germany, I bought myself two pack-flat cardboard stars. They’re meant to use a specific light fitting, but in 2019 I bodged them on top of some simple bedside lamps from Woodies, and in 2020 I hung one using a USB cable that was connected to a…

  • Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) โ€“ bridge mode

    Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) – bridge mode

    After my adventures in getting the IP address of the router to change, I discovered that the unit won’t keep DHCP disabled. You can turn it off (since I wanted to do DHCP from the Pi-hole), but if you reboot the router it gets turned back on. Since two DHCP servers on the same network…

  • Dublin Bay at night

    Dublin Bay at night

  • Boiler replaced

    Boiler replaced

    The new boiler is in – a Worcester Bosch Ri. Guy showed up at 0810, and worked through to about 1400. Network cable was piped in properly this time (instead of my hack), new flue (plastic instead of metal) has been installed, and condensate drain now goes to the ground drain and not the soil…

  • Itโ€™s a kettle with browning control

    Itโ€™s a kettle with browning control

    I suppose I might want to reheat frozen tea..

  • Itโ€™s a white January!

    Itโ€™s a white January!

    Well, for an hour.