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It’s that time of year again, Custard Staff Weekend at Tattershall Lakes. Here’s a shot of the Jetski lake at 10:30pm with my iPhone 7 plus (picked up more light than my eyes)

We got a shiny new BBQ the other weekend, it’s a beauty. Shelves are detached and in the garage as it’s a bit unwieldy with them on. This changing weather is dictating that it’s a common occurrence for the BBQ to be wheeled inside (not whilst cooking of course). Short Review… It’s a B&Q home […]

I’ve built a budget i5 PC which was just going to be our media PC plugged into the living room TV. Then I decided I wanted to do a bit of PC gaming, like the olden days. I needed a reasonable graphics card but luckily Xmas was round the corner so that happened. TV is a 4K Samsung 50″ JU6800 and […]

It’ll soon be 2017! This year has flown by. A lot of stars have died. Brexit happened Donald Trump happened 2016… What happened?   Quick blog post, onto wine. Thanks for coming, you’ve been great. Happy New Year!

We went to Dinnington Rugby Club yesterday to take part in “It’s a Knockout” for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. The weather was very changable, lots of rain one minute, lots of sun the next. Off and on throughout the day, I ended up cold with a sunburn (this is why a geek doesn’t normally go […]

I bought Assassin’s Creed Syndicate yesterday, for some reason it was on offer in HMV for £25 so I snapped it up. I have not previously been a fan of the AC games, I like the idea of the free running but I couldn’t engage with the story lines. Being a mild gamer who usually […]

I’ve been playing around with AWS recently as you can trial it for a year. It’s a really good setup actually and you get great Linux performance for a very small foot print. E.g. On EC2 the tiny free tier 1-core CPU, 1gb RAM, SDD Linux VM on AWS is easily 2-3x faster at loading […]

We went to the York Museum yesterday, the victorian town was great.  It’s bigger and more realistic than the one at Glasgow Transport Museum.  You don’t feel like you’re on a set in a museum, the smells and sounds make it more authentic.

So I’ve been doing the weekly checks on the firewall which protects my own little server and it looks like the attempts to compromise it are really ramping up, these are just from the past 24 hours. It’s doing its job alright but i’m quite curious as to the volume of this heinous traffic. Do people […]

Recently we’ve been going over to Hilcote Country Club with the crawlers on a Sunday morning, doing some digging then covering the RC off-roaders in a thick layer of Crap. Here’s some pics from Sunday as I took the SLR for a change.