Author: Duncan

  • Home waste disposal

    There appear to be two companies that do household garbage collection in my neck of the woods – Panda and Greyhound. Panda have no pricing on their website, and their new customer page doesn’t exist. When I called them, I was given the following numbers Type Per lift of bin (€) Per kg in bin(€) […]

  • iPhone GPS .. untrustworthy

    iPhone GPS .. untrustworthy

    All of the photos in the bottom half of this screenshot were taken in the same place. The GPS module of the iPhone XS that was use has placed the photos in 5 different places, and only one of them is partially right. So yeah, trusting the GPS to say where you were based on […]

  • A pottering weekend

    A pottering weekend

    Now that I’ve got a bed, I’ve moved off of my boat and back to dry land (though Ireland can have a tendency to disagree with the marrying of those words), even if the house isn’t actually finished. The major holdup has been the electrician; he’s finally started showing up again, and bare wires are […]

  • Can haz bed?

    Can haz bed?

    The house still isn’t finished, but I’ve checked with the painter and he’s happy to work around the bed in the master bedroom. Thus, bed assembly!

  • Storm comin’

    Storm comin’

    With Lorenzo headed this way, I figured a bit of Paul Keens Douglas was appropriate.

  • Sunrise

    Sunrise