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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?

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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.

Lots of pretty flowers

I took this only a week ago, and there are still fresh flowers on the dining room table.

BTW, if you are interested in checking out Mastodon let me know in the comments and I will give you some tips.

More Pretty Autumn Colours

It is way too warm out there for the end of October. It was 19C at 1pm today and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Something that I typically put away for the year during the first weekend of October. I really want to start wearing flannel, but then …

Pretty Autumn Colours

I was swamped early in October so I didn't get out at the height of the colourful leaves. This is my favourite time of the year and I plan to spend a lot more time on the trails in November and December.