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Ravenscraig Field

We haven't been out a lot lately, I'm blaming the crappy weather and too much work, but this weekend was nice and I didn't have any deadlines.

We wanted to go to Frog Pond, but a lot of people has similar ideas as us, so we went exploring a bit …

Town Clock

While I was wandering around I thought the bright clouding sky would give a chance to try the built in HDR function on my Canon R6 again.

Its not a feature that I use often, but its a lot faster than taking a bunch of shots and doing the same …

Running around Town

Yesterday was the first time that I went for a walk towards downtown in a while. I took my 35mm lens with me and was able to get a couple pictures I liked.

Modifying hosts file on Debian and Windows

If you are self-hosting apps on your local network, that you also want to access from the external world, like I do with my webarchive then you may have challenges getting your DNS to work properly.

One way to do this is to host your own DNS server and point …

Welcome to 2023!

To round out 2022 the little guy and I took a walk in the forest to a waterfall that was pinned in my AllTrails. It was a muddy ATV trail, and he love the walk, even after landing in a big puddle. Luckily I brought a towel and we were …

Myra Road Falls

For the last wandering hike of the year we headed out of town, and out of service, to Myra Road Falls (AllTrails Link). It starts at the tip of Porters Lake at the north end of Myra Rd. Which no matter how many times my car's navigation tried to direct …

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 …