Dogger, forties, cromarty – weather station for work
It’s not strictly-come-dancing true as it’s currently measuring the temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure in my kitchen but it will be shortly. Very straight forward to get working all that is required is: an account with the Weather Underground Raspberry Pi Sense HAT A python script reads the measurements from the sense hat every 10 seconds and every 10...
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Quest for Adventure
It’s a book by Chris Bonnington that my old man had. I remember going to listen to a talk by Chris Bonnington with dad – it might have been the occasion he bought the book but I cant be sure. Anyway I inherited this book before dad passed – in other words I half-inched based on the presumption that he...
Bishop Challoner Judo Club
I have built a new website for a Judo Club In Birmingham. The club is called Bishop Challoner Judo Club and is based in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in the Sports Centre that is attached to Bishop Challoner Catholic College. The more observant amongst you will notice that this is an unashamed post to plug the site in an effort to...
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the...
Judo Competitions – May through to December 2018
A selection of moslty Midlands based Judo comps running through May to December May 12/13 – Level 1 coach course – Samurai Sat/Sun May 19/20 – London Open Ranking Event – SportsDock, University of East London Docklands Campus, University Way London E16 2RD England Sat May 26 – English Minors Open – Samurai Sun May 27 – Abbey Judo Club...
During a few years of my life, some things, were largely a Sisyphean task.
This term (Sisyphean) means a task that is endless and ineffective and comes straight out of Greek myth. Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, a son of Aeolus (the ruler of the winds, hence our word aeolian for something produced by or borne on the wind). In later legend he was the father of Odysseus or Ulysses. His name actually...
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Stupidly, Mr Gove’s department dicked around with the curriculum in an effort to justify its own existence.
Just repeating what has already been said here but, hopefully, preserving it longer than it ordinarily might be. This is Biff. This is Chip. This is Biff and Chip’s homework. Biff and Chip are required to write down ten examples of fronted adverbials. Biff and Chip have not a fucking clue what a fronted adverbial is. This is Mum. Mum...
How to make your internet faster with privacy based DNS Service 1.1.1.1
This is great. Ive added it to my PiHole DNS server– Privacy -Speed – Advert Free!! via How to make your internet faster with privacy based DNS Service 1.1.1.1
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Performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers
Usual good post and intersting DNS service from Cloudflare. via DNS Resolvers Performance compared: CloudFlare x Google x Quad9 x OpenDNS
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