Ramblings
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Garden Robins
With spring moving along, and slowly giving way to what should be summer (12C is not summer..), the local robins are showing their offspring the area. Yesterday, while I was in the garden, the young robin (seen on the compost bin) decided my shoulder was a good perch point as it flew from the compost…
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Garden macro
While I’ve been unable to find my D750, I’ve at least found my D700, and my Nikkor 2.8 Micro lens. Can’t find my tripod quick release plate (it’s probably on the D750), but I’m still getting some reasonable results hand-held.
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Pandemic baking
With Ireland going into “don’t go anywhere” mode, and the supermarket shelves bare of flour, I went online looking for flour so that I can bake my own bread. Found a nice site, Kells, and picked up 10 kg of soda bread mix, and 12.5 kg of basic white flour. Should keep me going for…