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I Haven't Posted in a While

Its been a while since I've posted here, and part of the reason was that the latest version of a plugin that I use was broken.

I have since downgraded to the last version and while it has its own quirks, they are known quirks.

So for now, I give …

Ready For Winter

Like this squirrel, we are just about finished our autumn chores and hunkered down for winter. Typically we will be ready much sooner in the season, but this year the weather really stayed warm until last week.

Of course there are a couple of things that need to be finished …

Above The Clouds

This time in in 2014 I was way up in the Rockies in Cripple Creek, CO working on site. No one was ready for us, so we played cards in the control room most days. It is a pretty part of the world.

Today I spent a lot of time …

Jeff's Pelican SSG Theme

I have been using the theme that I started working on in March 2021, and even branched a copy for JMK Engineering.

Since then I have added a bunch of features, customizations, etc to it so that I can customize most of it from the pelican configuration files.

I have …

Polly's Cove - Most of the way

I haven't been getting out exploring as much, but on the 5th I took the kids to the Polly's Cove trail.

Open Street Maps view of Polly's Cove Trail

We headed east towards Barbara Basin, but the trail was a little too rough for the youngests legs, so we found a good spot for our snack north of …

The Picture Workflow

To manage all of the pictures that we take in this home, and with all the different cameras that we have around the house, there are a lot of pictures. So how do we make sure that the pictures we take are available for viewing?

Like This

First we have …

Random Thoughts by Jeff

There are a lot of things going on today, and I'm here thinking that MarkDown isn't a "good enough" markup language for a little blog like mine and RestructuedText was the only one for me. In fact I was waiting for a Pelican Plugin to be ready for RST before …

Updating the GL.iNet GL-AR750S-EXT Router

I pulled out my travel router to do some testing, not traveling, today and noticed that the firmware hasn't been updated since my last work trip in 2020.

However, it kept failing, so that's what this note is for, to remind me how to make it work if I have …

A big boat in the harbour

Yeah, I know, its not a boat, its a ship. But when you say "big ship" it sometimes sounds like something else.