Ramblings
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A view of the Irish juror system
Last month, I received a letter informing me that I had been randomly selected from the register of electors to serve as a juror at the Criminal Courts in Dublin. The letter came with a handbook explaining some of the process, as well as a list of reasons for disqualification or excuse from service (and…
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Building a custom OpenWrt image
K was poking around at Raspberry Pi stuff the other day, and the Pi3 she was using was pretty slow (and unable to run what the book was showing), so I replaced my Pi4 router with an AAEON UP-CHT01 machine that I had on hand. The specs of the CHT01 are roughly: 1.4 GHz Atom…
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DMYC Regatta 2022
Yesterday was the 2022 regatta at the DMYC – we had to skip the 2020 one for obvious reasons. I hadn’t heard about any arrangements for photos, so I decided to grab the D750 with my travel 28-300 lens and wander up the pier to see if I could at least capture the cruiser starts…
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Garden roundup
Summer is here, apparently. It’s barely cracking 16 degrees on a sunny day, and night time lows are still under 10 degrees. However, the garden is waking up, and the birds and insects are showing up.
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Afternoon delight
Yesterday afternoon was pretty nice weather-wise; 19 C, and wind out of the west. There was only one thing to do – go sailing. A west wind means Dublin Bay is pretty flat, in terms of waves. Makes for a nice change from the easterlies that can drive a mean swell into the bay. With…
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Back in Dun Laoghaire
Blue Opal is back in the water. Launched her on Thursday, and got the mast stepped in the correct slot this time (it had been mounted forwards one notch for the last few years). We put the cap shrouds on the wrong deck points initially, and wondered why the tension was as high as it…