A very smoky fathers day
Driving home from the Fleurieu Peninsula on Sunday there was a heavy blanket of smoke hanging over the hills and the Adelaide plains. I'd been to see dad, helped him repair his lawn mower and sipped a coffee at Port Elliot. I had spent longer there than...
SQL Server Management Studio – as another user
Skip skip skip all the preamble junk... My work, amongst many other things, involves managing a small herd of Microsoft SQL servers and a series of small web-apps. When I work from home, from my non-domain-joined machine, I want to be able to run the SQL...
70% Hydration Pizza Dough
Ingredients 1.1kg plain flour (split 700g and 400g) 770ml luke warm water (split 700ml and 70ml) 2g dry yeast pinch of salt 20g oil Method Roughly combine 700g flour and 700ml water in a bowl with a spoon, and set aside for at least 30 minutes (an hour is...
Winter Camping
A while ago we went camping in the Flinders Ranges. Winter camping is the outback is good. Days aren't too hot. The weather is usually fine. But nights are freezing. Literally. The night sky, though, is worth the cold. The cold weather is excellent for...
Let’s Encrypt Wildcards and IIS
Introduction Late last year, Let's Encrypt, that wonderful semi-automated free SSL certificate service, announced that they would be adding support for wildcard certificates. A standard SSL certificate only covers the specific domains and sub-domains it...
Chamber’s Gully
This morning I decided to film my first ever descent into Chamber's Gully. Enjoy! The video starts at the corner of Bartrill Spur Track and Long Ridge Track, and winds its way down Bartrill Spur Track, Kirrang Track, and Chamber's Gully Track.
Pi Hole Update
A while ago I wrote a guide on how to configure a Pi Hole on an Orange Pi tiny computer. See here: Filtering Ads and Stuff This was a bit of a mistake. The Orange Pi wasn't reliable, and failed on Friday, just about two months since it went in. I've since...
Riding + Technology
I love information. Or maybe it's that I, more specifically, love data. For a information/data-phile like me, having a device in your pocket (and on your wrist) that can collect, collate, and visualise the information for you is pretty amazing. With that...
Organising my life with an app
It feels a bit hypocritical to post about an app so soon after I posted about managing a screen addiction. But not very. I guess the point of my other post wasn't that I didn't want to use my phone. I wanted the interraction with my phone to be meaningful,...
Bike Rider
Over the last 20 years my riding has moved through several stages. I've gone from a ride-my-bike-to-Uni person, to a downhiller, to a non-rider, then back to a daily commuter and light cross-country rider. My latest incarnation is more like a commuter and...
Dealing with screen addiction.
I resisted calling this title something like "Man, nearly 39, installed a Morse Code keyboard on his phone. You won't believe what happened next...". Only just. Because I did install a Morse Code keyboard on my phone. But a bit more on that later. I love...
Filtering Ads and Other Things with Pi-hole
UPDATE, 2018/04/15: It turns out the Orange Pi wasn't reliable. I will re-write this for Raspberry Pi instructions shortly. It won't be very different, but a couple of things change. Downloads Required Armbian Ubuntu Server Win32DiskImager Putty 7-Zip...