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We’ve moved house!
No… we’re still living in the same house in Waarder.But this blog entry (and the entire history) is no longer served up by a hosted WordPress site, but by a brand-new Ubuntu 24.04 virtual hosted server with a LEMP stack… installed and configured by yours truly! As a result, it’s a lot faster. And a…
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Getting the MyCitroën app to work on a Connect-NAV-E4-equipped car
(Ha, after 7 years, I get to do more fooling around with car multimedia systems!) We recently replaced our 13 year old Octavia with a Citroën C5 Aircross PHEV. To get one thing out of the way first, I know from personal experience (as a devoted owner) that the CX and the XM were years…
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So… Labour is losing the plot as well.
Watch out: here comes an opinion. So, in England, if you wear a keffiyeh, you can be arrested ant taken into custody by the police. Apparently, it has recently been arranged by the UK government that it is okay to do so. Or, if you’d have worn this you could have been unceremoniously thrown into…
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On how we deal with time
The concept of time, how we perceive it, and what we can do with what is given us. The day before I started writing this, someone talked about “killing time”, and was then asked by someone else what that actually means. This set off a train of thought… and like trains of thought tend to…
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The Hiatus — on backfiring auto-immune treatment, and more photog gear — March, April, May, June
Just when I felt I was gaining traction again, my meds decided to do a number on me. Or two, actually. As I wrote in January, I was put on a regime of Rituximab (2 drips, one on Dec. 16 and the followup on Dec. 30), in addition to the Prednisone and the Mycophenol acid.…
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Jazz cave re-lit, social media cleaned out – Peter’s February in review
My study annex music room annex studio (basically a renovated loft where too many things happen on not enough square metres), which I affectionally call the Jazz Cave, had received a new floor last November. But the lighting was still crappy — LED strips which were now 10 years old, and two of those were…
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The Gear Factor
No, this is not the eternal Canon vs. Nikon debate… if only because I avoided that route altogether (more on that later). This goes into the question itself — does it matter what gear we use? Without further ado, here’s my version of The Answer: 1. It depends on the photographer’s personality Some of us…
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