Sat Jun 29
I decided to walk the West Highland Way (running some 96 miles, or 154 km, from Milngavie, just north of Glasgow, to Fort William) after some original solo holiday plans fell through with a couple of months to go. I hence found myself trying to figure out what I’d need to do to walk a long-distance path at...
A Swing Song by William Allingham Swing, swing, Sing, sing, Here! my throne and I am a king! Swing, sing, Swing, sing, Farewell, earth, for I'm on the wing! Low, high, Here I fly, Like a bird through sunny sky; Free, free, Over the lea, Over the mountain, over the …
A snap of my RPI 3B v1.2 circa 2015 I made an impulse buy at JayCar when I was in Mildura a few weeks ago. I was looking for a dongle to open my garage door (they did not have one) so I picked up this barometric pressure sensor instead. I thought maybe I could plug it into one of the old Raspberry Pi's (RPI) I had...
Since I saw the signpost for Schloss Burg (roughly translated as Castle Castle) a couple of years ago, I’ve been wanting to visit this medieval castle with the peculiar name. Today we did! After a half-hour drive from Cologne to Burg an der Wupper, we started with the short hike A8 and finished its 4.97km in 01:24h,...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the web is changing. Here’s Nilay Patel: There’s a theory I’ve had for a long time that I’ve been calling “Google Zero” — my name for that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to third-party websites. When I first heard this phrase I...
