Author: Duncan

  • Greenery

    Greenery

  • Drying a camera

    Drying a camera

    The club has a Hikvision camera mounted up high, looking out over the bay. We call it the Slipcam, because the main view is our slip and pontoon. Last weekend, the image went all foggy – it’s a unit that apparently doesn’t have any kind of fan or vent for condensation – and I picked […]

  • Garden things

    Garden things

    The garden is doing well, bar one crop of potatoes that seemed to develop early blight. Those have been harvested, and will be turned into the accompaniment for lunch today. The strawberry plants are doing well, with ripe fruit appearing every few days. I’m not the biggest fan of strawberries (in a take it or […]

  • Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) pains redux

    With Eir being unreachable via phone, I decided to poke the router they sent me, to see if I could tamper with the request that was causing issues. Basically, in the set of four requests that were XHR’d over to the router, I wanted to drop the first one. First stop, a tick in Firefox’s […]

  • Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) pains

    As a bid to save some money, I changed ISPs this week, and while the switchover was absolutely painless (compared to what it used to be like to change DSL providers), the lump of hardware Eir supply is a bit less than painless. The F3000 box that they send out is a Sagemcom device, potentially […]

  • GWFest 2010 – Help for Heroes

    GWFest 2010 – Help for Heroes

    Back in the mists of time, I went to GWFest 2010, and took a few hundred photos. Today, I happened to wonder whether YouTube still had the videos from that event posted, and they’re still there.